Trinidad and To­ba­go is not fac­ing an im­me­di­ate drought, but dri­er con­di­tions could de­vel­op lat­er this year, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

The cap­tain and crew of a car­go boat, which docked off the Port of Port-of-Spain on Sun­day for re­pairs, were robbed by armed men of valu­ables and equip­ment, in­clud­ing a boat en­gine.

Mus­lim groups across Trinidad and To­ba­go met in an emer­gency ses­sion yes­ter­day to dis­cuss Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to of­fi­cial­ly des­ig­nate three or­gan­i­sa­tions - Hezbol­lah, Hamas and Iran’s Is­lam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC) - as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties.

Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor David Nakhid says the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al will even­tu­al­ly pro­vide fur­ther de­tails on ques­tions swirling around the State’s sweep­ing des­ig­na­tion of three ma­jor Mid­dle East­ern or­gan­i­sa­tions as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties.

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith has en­dorsed Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to clas­si­fy Hamas, Iran’s Is­lam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon’s Hezbol­lah as ter­ror­ist groups, say­ing it is a means of en­abling the au­thor­i­ties to pre­vent fi­nanc­ing to armed groups.

A dual mile­stone in lo­cal mil­i­tary his­to­ry was ob­served be­tween last week and this week, as the first-ever woman and at­tor­ney were pro­mot­ed to the rank of colonel in the T&T Reg­i­ment.

Fac­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of their in­dus­try be­ing shut down, jet ski own­ers in To­ba­go are now des­per­ate to re­pair their im­age and find a place to op­er­ate from. Buc­coo beach is one of the ar­eas they are tar­get­ing, hop­ing the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly will lift the jet ski ban there and al­low them ex­clu­sive use of the site.

It comes ex­act­ly one week af­ter An­gel­i­ca was killed in a ter­ri­fy­ing jet ski ac­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point beach, To­ba­go.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is urg­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to come for­ward with in­for­ma­tion on a San Fran­cique woman and her son, who are ac­cused of false­ly im­pris­on­ing Sabi­ta Bas­deo af­ter of­fer­ing her a job as a maid.

A Guapo school­boy is among nine peo­ple who have been is­sued with Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) as part of on­go­ing ef­forts to con­tain vi­o­lent crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties.

The in­tegri­ty of a high-pro­file par­lia­men­tary in­quiry has been thrown in­to ques­tion fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions that Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates coached a key wit­ness she was tasked with scru­ti­n­is­ing.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s award of $3.4 bil­lion in pub­lic hous­ing con­tracts to 11 con­trac­tors, push­ing back against con­cerns raised by for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is over trans­paren­cy in the process.