Of­fi­cials in Cu­ba re­port­ed an is­land-wide black­out Mon­day in the coun­try of some 11 mil­lion peo­ple as its en­er­gy and eco­nom­ic crises deep­en. Cu­ba has blamed its woes on a U.S. en­er­gy block­ade af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in Jan­u­ary warned of tar­iffs on any coun­try that sells or pro­vides oil to it.

A 21-year-old man was shot dead in Co­corite this morn­ing af­ter pre­vi­ous­ly dis­miss­ing warn­ings about threats to his life.

The war in the Mid­dle East raged on mul­ti­ple fronts on Mon­day, as the U.S. and Is­rael pum­meled mil­i­tary tar­gets in Iran’s cap­i­tal, Is­rael stepped up its cam­paign against Iran-backed mil­i­tants in Lebanon and Iran re­tal­i­at­ed with a drone strike that tem­porar­i­ly forced the clo­sure of Dubai’s air­port, a cru­cial hub for trav­el­ers.

The mil­i­tary-grade ground/air task-ori­ent­ed radar at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Crown Point is no longer there.

A fire which broke out at the Beetham Land­fill on Fri­day has been ex­tin­guished and the site was ex­pect­ed to open with nor­mal op­er­at­ing hours to­day.

A for­mer Flori­da high school teacher, who plead­ed guilty last year to pur­chas­ing firearms for a Trinidad-based crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tion, has now been sen­tenced to prison in the Unit­ed States.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two sep­a­rate re­ports of rob­bery with vi­o­lence less than an hour apart in Port of Spain on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion and the Re­gion I Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions were kept busy late in­to Sun­day night as they in­ves­ti­gat­ed three sep­a­rate mur­ders, hours apart in Port of Spain and Laven­tille.

The board of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of T&T has been called on to re­sign im­me­di­ate­ly by Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple Van­dana Mo­hit.

This as To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Sec­re­tary of Youth Em­pow­er­ment and Sport Keigon De­noon re­it­er­at­ed a state­ment by Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine that the US mil­i­tary would be leav­ing the is­land with­in days, but re­fused to give the ex­act date.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing how a quan­ti­ty of spent shells bear­ing the mark­ing ‘TTR’ and ‘TTAG’ came to be used in a sol­dier’s mur­der in Ch­agua­nas on Sat­ur­day night.

There are mixed views from lawyers to At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie’s re­cent warn­ing about so­cial me­dia com­men­tary by cit­i­zens dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE), with some say­ing his com­ments do not sug­gest there is any le­gal breach but oth­ers urg­ing cau­tion about what is said on­line as well as over the pos­si­bil­i­ty of sti­fling of free speech.