The rel­a­tives of a man from Diego Mar­tin, re­spon­si­ble for a land­mark case which al­lowed bail to be con­sid­ered for peo­ple charged with mur­der, are set to re­ceive a lit­tle over $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $125,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a pair of fish­er­men from Moru­ga, whose boat was seized and de­tained for al­most four years with­out law­ful jus­ti­fi­ca­tion. 

Head of the Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion, ACP Richard Smith, says as the TTPS con­tin­ues to in­ves­ti­gate in­stances where sus­pect­ed po­lice and De­fence Force spent shells are found at crime scenes, sev­er­al pos­si­bil­i­ties ex­ist as to how marked am­mu­ni­tion may end up in such lo­ca­tions.

The Privy Coun­cil has re­solved a long-stand­ing prop­er­ty dis­pute be­tween a dozen sib­lings over one of them build­ing a house on a por­tion of land their fa­ther left them. 

Is­rael and the Unit­ed States pound­ed Iran on Mon­day in a cam­paign that U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said would like­ly take sev­er­al weeks. Tehran and its al­lies hit back against Is­rael, Gulf states and tar­gets crit­i­cal to the world’s en­er­gy pro­duc­tion.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has is­sued two Cer­tifi­cates of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CECs) for projects in the en­er­gy and tourism sec­tors.

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.