The U.S. launched strikes on Iran ear­ly Tues­day, hours af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump vowed to re­in­state an Amer­i­can block­ade of Iran­ian ports and charge ships for safe pas­sage through the Strait of Hor­muz. Iran re­spond­ed with at­tacks on Mid­dle East al­lies of the U.S.

A Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al who made in­ter­na­tion­al head­lines af­ter be­ing con­vict­ed in the Unit­ed States for at­tempt­ing to arrange the mur­der of his for­mer girl­friend's part­ner has died in Flori­da.

A Cab­i­net note which cir­cu­lat­ed on Mon­day night sparked spec­u­la­tion that this year's In­de­pen­dence Day mil­i­tary pa­rade had been can­celled, but Gov­ern­ment sources say the event is still ex­pect­ed to go ahead.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is stand­ing de­fi­ant in the face of death threats from the crim­i­nal el­e­ments di­rect­ed at him and his fam­i­ly, in­sist­ing he will not al­low “cow­ard­ly” acts of in­tim­i­da­tion to de­ter him from hunt­ing down the crim­i­nals.

Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe has been sent on leave, days af­ter the Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) com­plained about al­leged VIP treat­ment be­ing giv­en to busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, who is cur­rent­ly in­car­cer­at­ed at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO).

For­mer For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has called on Gov­ern­ment to say if it will sup­port the Unit­ed States’ call to dis­man­tle the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC), which late for­mer prime min­is­ter and pres­i­dent Arthur NR Robin­son played an in­stru­men­tal role in es­tab­lish­ing.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says most of the homi­cides record­ed for the year thus far were not gang-re­lat­ed or care­ful­ly planned at­tacks, but ran­dom ar­gu­ments and do­mes­tic dis­putes.

Call­ing on law en­force­ment to get a grip on crime, the griev­ing moth­er of Ny­ron Davis yes­ter­day lament­ed that he was in­no­cent and sim­ply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) says it has noth­ing to hide and is prepar­ing to fight what it de­scribes as an at­tempt to tar­nish the par­ty’s rep­u­ta­tion in an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the source of funds used to ren­o­vate its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters.

For the fifth con­sec­u­tive year, Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­mained the coun­try with the high­est num­ber of ap­peals be­fore the Privy Coun­cil.

The Gov­ern­ment con­tin­ues to push back against grow­ing crit­i­cism over its pro­posed ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence da­ta cen­tres, with Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Pro­fes­sor Prakash Per­sad ac­cus­ing op­po­nents of be­ing “naysay­ers” who com­plain re­gard­less of the out­come, while Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Chair­man Gow­tam Ma­haraj sought to re­as­sure the pub­lic that any risks as­so­ci­at­ed with the project would be prop­er­ly man­aged.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says he ex­pects the new e-pass­port sys­tem to be brought on­line with­in a mat­ter of months, as he put for­ward a ten­ta­tive time­line of ear­ly 2027 for the sys­tem to be rolled out.