The Unit­ed States and Iran reached an ini­tial agree­ment Mon­day that would ex­tend their shaky cease­fire and lead to the re­open­ing of the Strait of Hor­muz, but sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges re­main to end­ing the war, in­clud­ing whether Is­rael will con­tin­ue its of­fen­sive in Lebanon.

A top re­al es­tate ex­ec­u­tive has called for greater gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion con­cern­ing bu­reau­crat­ic ap­provals in a bid to re­duce the gap be­tween con­struc­tion costs and af­ford­abil­i­ty in the res­i­den­tial re­al es­tate mar­ket.

HOUS­TON – De­spite be­ing thrashed 7-1 by Ger­many in their first-ever World Cup match in the Unit­ed States on Sun­day, Cu­raçao head coach Dick Ad­vo­caat does not be­lieve his side should be em­bar­rassed by the score­line.

For gen­er­a­tions of cit­i­zens, the sprawl­ing com­pound on the West­ern Main Road has been en­tire­ly syn­ony­mous with law en­force­ment. Since the 1890s, near­ly every po­lice of­fi­cer who has sworn to pro­tect and serve our na­tion has marched through its his­toric gates. Yet, long be­fore it be­came the bedrock of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), the St James Bar­racks was a vi­tal mil­i­tary strong­hold built to safe­guard the British Em­pire’s most prized Caribbean pos­ses­sion.

The po­lit­i­cal ha­rangue among Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment dur­ing last Fri­day night’s Fi­nance Stand­ing Com­mit­tee meet­ing re­flects a trou­bling es­ca­la­tion in ten­sions be­tween the rul­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment and the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).