Sleep­less nights un­der the thun­der of in­ter­cept­ed mis­siles have be­come rou­tine for some Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als liv­ing in the Mid­dle East, as the con­flict in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States, Is­rael and Iran in­ten­si­fies with dead­ly con­se­quences.

While Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar faces crit­i­cism over her sup­port of the Unit­ed States and Is­rael’s ma­jor at­tack on Iran, one Mus­lim leader be­lieves the Prime Min­is­ter may be act­ing in what she con­sid­ers the best in­ter­est of Trinidad and To­ba­go, but notes that her hands may al­so be tied.

For­mer ac­tu­ing com­mis­sion­er of po­lice Mc­Don­ald Ja­cob says it was the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, through its Transna­tion­al Or­gan­ised Crime Unit (TOCU), which grant­ed ap­proval for four mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to trav­el to Bar­ba­dos to bring firearms deal­er Brent Thomas to T&T on Oc­to­ber 5, 2022.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says his col­league, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, made an er­ror when he said there were no miss­ing files on firearms deal­er Brent Thomas at his min­istry.

To­ba­go stu­dent Ray­lon Tay­lor re­mains strand­ed in Abu Dhabi as mil­i­tary con­flict in the Mid­dle East has ground­ed thou­sands of flights.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump yes­ter­day pushed back against mount­ing crit­i­cism that he hasn’t done enough to ex­plain why it was nec­es­sary to start a war with Iran now or to ar­tic­u­late his vi­sion for an endgame to the es­ca­lat­ing con­flict.

For­mer min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s re­sponse to the es­ca­lat­ing con­flict in the Mid­dle East, say­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go has de­part­ed from its tra­di­tion­al for­eign pol­i­cy prin­ci­ples.

Un­der the swel­ter­ing mid­day sun, hun­dreds of mi­grants—in­clud­ing moth­ers clutch­ing tod­dlers—stood be­neath tents out­side the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va yes­ter­day, wait­ing to be processed as the Gov­ern­ment be­gan its in-per­son mi­grant reg­is­tra­tion ex­er­cise.

Ex­cite­ment is build­ing in Bar­rack­pore as Phag­wa re­turns to the Vic­to­ria Unit­ed Sports Club at Val­ley­line for the first time since 1989, bring­ing with it colour, chow­tal and com­mu­ni­ty uni­ty.

The Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh, is en­cour­ag­ing land­lords across Trinidad and To­ba­go to com­plete the re­cent­ly rolled out on­line Land­lord Busi­ness Sur­charge reg­is­tra­tion with­in the stip­u­lat­ed time frame.

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.