The 31st Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence start­ed in An­talya, Türkiye this morn­ing. Here are five things you should as world lead­ers meet to ne­go­ti­ate a way for­ward on the cli­mate cri­sis:

For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has dis­missed con­cerns that Trinidad and To­ba­go could face scruti­ny from the Unit­ed States Con­gress over its sup­port for the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion and its mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions in the Caribbean.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) is sat­is­fied with at­ten­dance at this year’s Di­vali Na­gar, which be­gan on Oc­to­ber 30 and end­ed on Sat­ur­day, de­spite so­cial me­dia crit­i­cism about night­ly crowd sizes.

Econ­o­mists have backed the Cen­tral Bank’s warn­ing about ris­ing house­hold debt, cau­tion­ing that ex­ces­sive bor­row­ing could have wider im­pli­ca­tions for fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty, busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty and eco­nom­ic growth in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says “some­thing was go­ing wrong” for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to ac­cu­mu­late more than $93 mil­lion in tele­phone bills over four fi­nan­cial years. He said his min­istry was tak­ing a more hands-on ap­proach to spend­ing and ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Al­most 3,000 mi­grants have col­lect­ed doc­u­ments un­der the Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work (MRF) in the past week, fol­low­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to open the process to ap­proved ap­pli­cants of all na­tion­al­i­ties.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is urg­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­bers to re­main loy­al to one an­oth­er, warn­ing them to be pre­pared to con­front “wicked­ness” and de­fend their po­lit­i­cal fam­i­ly in times of ad­ver­si­ty.

For more than two years, res­i­dents of St John’s Branch Trace, Av­o­cat, en­dured the dai­ly hard­ship of car­ry­ing gro­ceries and garbage across a flood­gate to reach their homes. When some­one fell ill, they had to re­ly on a boat to cross the riv­er.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal does not ex­pect re­cent De­mo­c­ra­t­ic gains in the Unit­ed States midterm elec­tions to af­fect Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy arrange­ments with Venezuela, in­clud­ing US li­cences for the de­vel­op­ment of the Drag­on and Lo­ran-Man­a­tee gas fields.

Strong sales of deyas and roti added to the Di­vali buzz in Debe, where flags lined Welling­ton Road and bam­boo struc­tures adorned with flam­beaux were be­ing pre­pared for yes­ter­day’s cel­e­bra­tions.

The world can no longer treat the 1.5-de­gree Cel­sius warm­ing thresh­old as a dis­tant warn­ing, with small is­land de­vel­op­ing states (SIDS) urg­ing gov­ern­ments at COP31 to con­front the like­li­hood of glob­al tem­per­a­ture over­shoot through stronger emis­sions-re­duc­tion com­mit­ments, in­creased cli­mate fi­nanc­ing and ac­cel­er­at­ed adap­ta­tion mea­sures.

Res­i­dents of Olton Road, Ari­ma, say wors­en­ing wa­ter short­ages over the past year have forced them to car­ry wa­ter from oth­er com­mu­ni­ties, in­stall tanks and pumps, and scale back their house­hold rou­tines and busi­ness­es. They are call­ing on the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to ur­gent­ly ad­dress the prob­lem.