Dozens of sol­diers and po­lice fanned out across a neigh­bour­hood on a re­cent night in the Turks & Caicos Is­lands just days af­ter the arch­i­pel­ago re­port­ed a record 40 killings this year.

Two men died af­ter a shoot­ing in Diego Mar­tin last night. Au­thor­i­ties iden­ti­fied them as An­fer­nee Eligon and Calvin Levine. A third man, wound­ed dur­ing the in­ci­dent, re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

Re­pub­li­cans have won enough seats to con­trol the U.S. House, com­plet­ing the par­ty’s sweep in­to pow­er and se­cur­ing their hold on U.S. gov­ern­ment along­side Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is call­ing for le­gal ac­tion against un­scrupu­lous peo­ple, in­clud­ing res­i­dents, whose un­law­ful ac­tions con­tribute to flood­ing.

Un­der heavy clouds, Wood­land res­i­dents pre­pared for pos­si­ble evac­u­a­tion as flood­wa­ters from the South Oropouche Riv­er Basin rose, spread­ing across the low­er plains and flood­ing homes.

It is a har­row­ing time for many Pe­nal res­i­dents as they grap­ple with heavy fi­nan­cial and sen­ti­men­tal loss­es in the af­ter­math of Tues­day’s tor­ren­tial rain. While some took ad­van­tage of the flood­ed rivers by fish­ing for cas­cadu­ra, sev­er­al el­der­ly peo­ple were forced to flee their homes.

TTUTA pres­i­dent Mar­tin Lum Kin has crit­i­cised the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, claim­ing it did not or­der the ear­ly dis­missal of schools in flood-af­fect­ed Pe­nal, leav­ing stu­dents and staff strand­ed in haz­ardous con­di­tions on Tues­day.

Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) lead­ers have used the on­go­ing flood­ing across the re­gion to press home their case for cli­mate fi­nance as the third day of COP29 closed yes­ter­day in Baku, Azer­bai­jan.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of “hid­ing and duck­ing” af­ter a high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed Pub­lic Ac­counts Com­mit­tee meet­ing card­ed for yes­ter­day to re­view the de­tails sur­round­ing the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s re­port in­to a $2.6 bil­lion un­der­state­ment of rev­enue in the 2023 pub­lic fi­nan­cial state­ments was sud­den­ly post­poned. 

While cy­ber­crime con­tin­ues to be a con­cern for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Kei­th Scot­land is sug­gest­ing that it may be time for T&T to im­ple­ment laws that pre­vent chil­dren un­der the age of 16 from hav­ing ac­cess to so­cial me­dia. 

The Joint Cham­bers are call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to ur­gent­ly re­solve the on­go­ing in­dus­tri­al ac­tion caus­ing se­vere dis­rup­tions at the Port of Port-of-Spain. The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (AM­CHAM T&T), the En­er­gy Cham­ber, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (T&T Cham­ber), and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is­sued a joint state­ment yes­ter­day, crit­i­cis­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s in­ac­tion in what they de­scribe as a na­tion­al cri­sis at a peak time for ship­ping ac­tiv­i­ty.

In an ef­fort to do their part dur­ing World Kind­ness Day yes­ter­day, the non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion, Ross Re­Think dis­trib­uted hun­dreds of free meals such as dou­bles, bake and shark, cof­fee and choco­lates. at their head­quar­ters on Gray Street, Port-of-Spain.