Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is de­fend­ing his de­ci­sion to send an­oth­er 2,000 Na­tion­al Guard troops along with 700 Marines to Los An­ge­les, es­ca­lat­ing a mil­i­tary pres­ence lo­cal of­fi­cials and Gov. Gavin New­som don’t want and the po­lice chief says cre­ates lo­gis­ti­cal chal­lenges for safe­ly han­dling protests.

A 62-year-old woman was killed and her daugh­ter in­jured af­ter a van struck them while they crossed the road in Pe­nal on Mon­day night.

The San Juan Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion (SJ­BA) is re­new­ing its call to the Gov­ern­ment to stop spend­ing mon­ey on re­pairs and in­stead re­lo­cate the San Juan Fire Sta­tion to a safer, more ac­ces­si­ble site.

Na­tion­al Di­rec­tor of Habi­tat for Hu­man­i­ty T&T, Jen­nifer Mas­si­ah, along with a team from the or­gan­i­sa­tion, met with David Lee, Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and the two Min­is­ters in the Min­istry of Hous­ing.

Britain, Aus­tralia, Cana­da, New Zealand and Nor­way said Tues­day they have im­posed sanc­tions on two far-right Is­raeli gov­ern­ment min­is­ters for al­leged­ly “in­cit­ing ex­trem­ist vi­o­lence” against Pales­tini­ans in the Is­raeli-oc­cu­pied West Bank.

In re­sponse to es­ca­lat­ing weath­er con­di­tions un­der the Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert, the Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy has or­dered the im­me­di­ate clo­sure of all schools across To­ba­go. This pre­cau­tion­ary sus­pen­sion of the cur­ricu­lum aims to pro­tect stu­dents and staff amid fore­casts of in­ten­si­fy­ing storms.

Six peo­ple were ar­rest­ed for var­i­ous of­fences dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es yes­ter­day, con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the East­ern and To­ba­go Di­vi­sions.

A Mal­oney man has ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court, charged with the mur­der of Michael Au­gus­tine, which oc­curred in May last year.

Trans­port Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our vis­it­ed the City Gate Tran­sit Hub as part of on­go­ing talks with the Route Two Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion, fol­low­ing com­plaints about poor in­fra­struc­ture and op­er­a­tional in­ef­fi­cien­cies.

A Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert has been ac­ti­vat­ed for Trinidad and sur­round­ing wa­ters, and to a less­er ex­tent, To­ba­go.

Rus­sia sent waves of drones and mis­siles in an at­tack on two Ukrain­ian cities ear­ly Tues­day that killed three peo­ple and wound­ed at least thir­teen oth­ers, Ukrain­ian of­fi­cials said.

This is the ad­vice of a se­nior Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial to the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­min­is­tra­tion, amid con­tin­u­ing diplo­mat­ic ten­sion be­tween the neigh­bour­ing coun­tries.