Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed says re­pair, clean-up and restora­tion works fol­low­ing a pipeline leak at San Fer­nan­do East Sec­ondary School have been com­plet­ed.

Asia mar­kets in Hong Kong and Japan re­act af­ter the U.S. and Is­rael’s at­tacks on Iran Oil prices are leap­ing Mon­day with wor­ries that the Iran war will clog the glob­al flow of crude and make in­fla­tion even worse. U.S. stocks, mean­while, are swing­ing be­tween sharp loss­es and a tiny gain.

Cuban Pres­i­dent Miguel Díaz-Canel said Mon­day that his gov­ern­ment should “im­me­di­ate­ly” fo­cus on im­ple­ment­ing ur­gent trans­for­ma­tions to the is­land’s eco­nom­ic and so­cial mod­el as oil re­serves in the Caribbean coun­try dwin­dle.

The fam­i­ly of Diego Mar­tin man Ak­ili Charles will re­ceive just over $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion fol­low­ing a land­mark le­gal chal­lenge that al­lowed bail to be con­sid­ered for mur­der charges.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has is­sued a yel­low-lev­el haz­ardous seas alert for the north­ern and east­ern ex­posed coast­lines, in­clud­ing off­shore ar­eas, from 4 pm to­day (Mon­day) un­til 6 pm on Thurs­day 5 March 2026.

Two fish­er­men who were re­port­ed miss­ing off the south-east coast of Trinidad have been found safe af­ter ex­pe­ri­enc­ing en­gine prob­lems while at sea.

Hun­dreds of mi­grants, in­clud­ing moth­ers with young chil­dren, lined up un­der tents out­side the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va, en­dur­ing in­tense heat as they wait­ed to be processed.

Of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion are in­ves­ti­gat­ing four sep­a­rate rob­beries re­port­ed across the cap­i­tal on Sat­ur­day.

Fish­er­folk along the south-east coast are on alert as two men re­main miss­ing at sea be­tween Guayagua­yare and Moru­ga.

As ris­ing ten­sions in­volv­ing Iran push glob­al oil and gas prices high­er, for­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has de­fend­ed the At­lantic LNG re­struc­tur­ing, say­ing the coun­try is now po­si­tioned to ben­e­fit be­cause of de­ci­sions tak­en un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gov­ern­ment.

Econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon has warned that sim­ply in­creas­ing con­tri­bu­tions will not be enough to sus­tain the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Fund, call­ing for broad­er re­forms such as grad­u­al­ly rais­ing the re­tire­ment age to re­flect longer life ex­pectan­cy.

No in­struc­tions were ever is­sued by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion re­quir­ing teach­ers or staff to pay for ser­vices un­der the Em­ploy­ee As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (EAP), Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath told Par­lia­ment last Fri­day.