Two Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment (TTR) sol­diers res­cued five civil­ians who got in­to dif­fi­cul­ty in the wa­ters off Blan­chisseuse Beach on Sat­ur­day, ac­cord­ing to a Face­book post by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment.

Farm­ers in Va­len­cia are rais­ing alarm over il­le­gal squat­ting, prae­di­al lar­ce­ny and a lack of ba­sic in­fra­struc­ture, with some claim­ing armed squat­ters are bull­doz­ing agri­cul­tur­al lands and sell­ing lots with­out per­mis­sion.

The Caribbean’s oceans are deeply con­nect­ed to the lives of the peo­ple who call this re­gion home. That con­nec­tion is both his­toric and con­tem­po­rary. No­bel lau­re­ate Derek Wal­cott fa­mous­ly wrote that “the sea is his­to­ry” when speak­ing about these is­lands. To­day, the oceans con­tin­ue to play a cru­cial role in Caribbean life, sus­tain­ing food se­cu­ri­ty, fish­eries, tourism and trans­porta­tion.

The world’s coral reefs are run­ning out of time to re­cov­er be­tween in­creas­ing­ly fre­quent ma­rine heat­waves and glob­al bleach­ing events, with cli­mate change dri­ving a long-term de­cline in coral cov­er, a new glob­al as­sess­ment has found.