De­fend­ing cham­pi­on Ar­genti­na ral­lied to beat Eng­land 2-1 on Wednes­day and reach the World Cup fi­nal.

An emo­tion­al Act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez has pub­licly thanked Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­tries for their hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid to the South Amer­i­can coun­try fol­low­ing the June 24 dou­ble earth­quake that killed thou­sands of peo­ple and left sev­er­al oth­ers home­less.

The U.S. reim­posed a naval block­ade on Iran and in­ten­si­fied its airstrike cam­paign Wednes­day in re­tal­i­a­tion for Tehran’s at­tacks on ships try­ing to pass through the Strait of Hor­muz. The Amer­i­can strikes hit an Iran­ian army bar­racks, killed at least sev­en troops and wound­ed more than 260 peo­ple across the coun­try, Iran­ian of­fi­cials said.

A 50-foot sail­ing ves­sel has been towed safe­ly back Ch­aguara­masafter a co­or­di­nat­ed mar­itime re­sponse in­volv­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard, North Post Ra­dio Sta­tion and the Ma­rine Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Four peo­ple are in po­lice cus­tody af­ter of­fi­cers seized two high-pow­ered weapons, am­mu­ni­tion and oth­er items dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in To­ba­go.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve will have to wait un­til at least Fri­day to see if they will be re­leased from de­ten­tion to be re­unit­ed with their three chil­dren af­ter spend­ing al­most three weeks in prison on an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials. 

For­mer pris­ons com­mis­sion­er Ger­ard Wil­son says he is con­cerned about the morale of the prison ser­vice af­ter act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe was sent on leave amidst al­le­ga­tions that he gave pref­er­en­tial treat­ment to de­tained busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed.

The Privy Coun­cil has re­served its de­ci­sion on an ap­peal from a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer and two men, who were de­tained over an al­leged plot to kill gov­ern­ment min­is­ters dur­ing a State of Emer­gency (SoE) in 2011. 

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says death threats are par for the course for lead­ers and should be dealt with with­out pub­lic an­nounce­ments.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has no plans to make its fi­nan­cial state­ments pub­lic de­spite the on­go­ing po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to how its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters in Port-of-Spain was fund­ed, par­ty chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les has said.

A Cab­i­net note which cir­cu­lat­ed on Mon­day night sparked spec­u­la­tion that this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day mil­i­tary pa­rade had been can­celled, but Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the Min­istry of De­fence have both con­firmed the event will pro­ceed.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day de­clined to com­ment on the Unit­ed States’ re­cent cam­paign to dis­man­tle the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC), even as she met with a high-lev­el Amer­i­can del­e­ga­tion to dis­cuss strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al ties.