Nu­trien work­ers are be­ing is­sued re­trench­ment let­ters as the Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er gi­ant moves ahead with plans to ter­mi­nate its re­main­ing work­force at Point Lisas, with af­fect­ed em­ploy­ees hav­ing un­til No­vem­ber 9 to ac­cept their sev­er­ance pack­ages.

Rel­a­tives of 41-year-old Tim­mi­an Fran­cois, who was fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice at his New Grant home on Sun­day, be­lieve his death was un­jus­ti­fied and are de­mand­ing jus­tice.

The body of a 22-year-old Tacarigua man, who went miss­ing while hik­ing at Mar­i­anne Gorge, Blan­chisseuse, on Sun­day, was re­cov­ered by Fire Ser­vice of­fi­cers yes­ter­day.

Three years af­ter sur­viv­ing an at­tempt on his life, busi­ness­man Shyam Bal­la, 23, of Sixth Com­pa­ny, In­di­an Walk, was shot dead, while his fa­ther was in­jured at their Princes Town busi­ness on Sun­day.

The High Court has dis­missed a $24 mil­lion claim brought by Main­way In­dus­tri­al In­stal­la­tion Ltd against State-owned Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (EM­BD), rul­ing that the com­pa­ny wait­ed too long to pur­sue the al­leged out­stand­ing pay­ments.

Suc­cess keeps fol­low­ing Brenar­do Thomp­son, aka Tam Tam, who made a clean sweep of To­ba­go Car­ni­val 2026, adding the in­au­gur­al Road March crown to his maid­en So­ca Ti­tans ti­tle.

A PTSC pas­sen­ger bus caught fire at the com­mis­sion’s Point Fortin com­pound on Mon­day, caus­ing an es­ti­mat­ed $150,000 in dam­age.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has with­drawn from the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, hours af­ter the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs con­firmed she would at­tend.

One of Haiti’s most pow­er­ful gang lead­ers has writ­ten the U.N. Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al and re­quest­ed that the or­ga­ni­za­tion de­ploy a del­e­ga­tion to Haiti for di­a­logue and me­di­a­tion amid fears that Sal­vado­ran troops de­ployed af­ter the dis­ap­pear­ance of avi­a­tion tech­ni­cians from that coun­try could es­ca­late vi­o­lence.

The Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) will host five days of re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al dis­cus­sions on spec­trum man­age­ment, satel­lite con­nec­tiv­i­ty and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions reg­u­la­tion from No­vem­ber 2 to 6.

U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio met with his Venezue­lan coun­ter­part in Wash­ing­ton on Mon­day as the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has stepped up ef­forts to press the in­ter­im gov­ern­ment and op­po­si­tion groups to make quick progress on prepa­ra­tions for elec­tions that could be held next year.

Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu is push­ing for an­oth­er wave of strikes on Iran af­ter Tues­day’s midterm elec­tions in the Unit­ed States, ac­cord­ing to two re­gion­al of­fi­cials and a third per­son fa­mil­iar with the mat­ter.