Iran stopped com­mu­ni­cat­ing with me­di­a­tors af­ter Is­rael threat­ened to bomb Beirut as it fights the Iran­ian-backed Lebanese mili­tia Hezbol­lah, two se­mi-of­fi­cial Iran­ian news agen­cies re­port­ed Tues­day.

The Min­istry of Labour has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death of san­i­ta­tion work­er De­shawn Joseph, who was killed while on du­ty in Kel­ly Vil­lage last week.

The ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of the Caribbean Re­gion­al Fish­eries Mech­a­nism (CRFM), Dr. Marc Williams is ques­tion­ing how the Caribbean fish­eries and aqua­cul­ture will fare off dur­ing the 2026 At­lantic Hur­ri­cane Sea­son, which be­gan on Mon­day.

The U.S. gov­ern­ment has giv­en a visa to Wood­en­sky Pierre, the on­ly mem­ber of Haiti’s na­tion­al soc­cer team who lives in the Caribbean coun­try, to trav­el and par­tic­i­pate in the World Cup, an of­fi­cial said Tues­day.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing cus­tomers in sev­er­al parts of North, Cen­tral and South Trinidad that they may ex­pe­ri­ence a tem­po­rary dis­rup­tion to their pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply due to es­sen­tial works be­ing car­ried out by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC).

Com­muters trav­el­ling along the East-West cor­ri­dor and from Cen­tral and South Trinidad in­to and out of Port-of-Spain are ex­pect­ed to face an­oth­er day of dis­rup­tion to­day, as Route Two and Three maxi taxi op­er­a­tors plan to con­tin­ue their three-day strike de­spite talks with Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our yes­ter­day.

From as ear­ly as 5 am yes­ter­day, maxi taxi dri­vers gath­ered at the Tarou­ba Fly­over to be­gin a mo­tor­cade bound for Port-of-Spain. They would dri­ve at 65 kmh dur­ing the ac­tiv­i­ty, one of sev­er­al is­sues they have with the Min­istry of Trans­port.

De­spite leav­ing their homes ear­li­er than usu­al to try and work around the maxi taxi strike, com­muters were still left frus­trat­ed and dis­ap­point­ed yes­ter­day, as they wait­ed for as long as two hours be­cause there were not enough Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) bus­es to help al­le­vi­ate the back­log of com­muters.

Dri­vers op­er­at­ing pri­vate hire “PH” taxis in Cen­tral Trinidad re­port­ed in­creased busi­ness yes­ter­day, as a na­tion­wide maxi taxi strike dis­rupt­ed pub­lic trans­porta­tion ser­vices, leav­ing many com­muters scram­bling for al­ter­na­tive trav­el op­tions.

As thou­sands of com­muters were left scram­bling for trans­porta­tion dur­ing yes­ter­day’s na­tion­wide maxi-taxi strike, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro or­dered the de­ploy­ment of po­lice bus­es to trans­port strand­ed pas­sen­gers home.

Com­muters trav­el­ling out of San­gre Grande, who de­pend on maxi taxis for their trans­porta­tion, were forced to use Pub­lic Trans­porta­tion Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) bus­es yes­ter­day, af­ter maxi taxi op­er­a­tors staged day one of their in­tend­ed three-day protest ac­tion.

To­ba­go maxi taxi dri­vers have ex­pressed sol­i­dar­i­ty with their Trinida­di­an coun­ter­parts, who with­held their ser­vices yes­ter­day, the first of three days of protests over in­dus­try con­cerns.