De­fence Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth on Thurs­day an­nounced an­oth­er dead­ly U.S. strike on a boat he said was traf­fick­ing nar­cotics in the Caribbean Sea.

Pres­i­dent of the new­ly formed Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers Al­liance (TTA­PA) Nigel Tenia has warned that as many as 100,000 jobs across the con­struc­tion in­dus­try are at risk as quar­ry op­er­a­tors shut down op­er­a­tions over the Gov­ern­ment’s fail­ure to is­sue long-over­due pro­cess­ing li­cences.

For­mer chair­man of Stud­ley Park En­ter­prise Ltd (SPEL), David Walk­er, says the To­ba­go quar­ry has the ca­pac­i­ty to meet the de­mands of both lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets, pro­vid­ed the right equip­ment is pro­cured.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is promis­ing 50,919 jobs on the way as she un­veiled an am­bi­tious Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print with a wave of in­fra­struc­ture projects.