Britain an­nounced Tues­day that it is ex­pand­ing mil­i­tary sup­port for Sau­di Ara­bia against the Houthis to in­clude “de­fen­sive” air pa­trols by Roy­al Air Force jets, but stressed there is no mil­i­tary so­lu­tion to the con­flict.

Paris re­turned to calm on Tues­day af­ter its first qui­et night since a week­end marred by France’s most de­struc­tive ri­ot­ing in years, as au­thor­i­ties im­posed cur­fews in sev­er­al cities in an ef­fort to pre­vent an­oth­er round of ri­ot­ing and loot­ing.

Five new­ly in­stalled buoys and 19 ma­rine an­chors used to se­cure bathing-area safe­ty bar­ri­ers have been stolen at Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, prompt­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine to con­demn what he de­scribed as a bla­tant dis­re­gard for pub­lic safe­ty.

The Ju­di­cia­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go says due process and the pre­sump­tion of in­no­cence re­main im­por­tant fol­low­ing a po­lice search of the home of Act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says sev­er­al mat­ters aris­ing from foren­sic in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to state en­ti­ties will be re­ferred to the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has warned pub­lic sec­tor em­ploy­ees who fail to per­form their du­ties that they will be dis­missed and re­placed by peo­ple will­ing to work.

Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein says the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Of­fice will probe the lease of Ch­aguara­mas state lands by Tem­blado­ra En­er­gy Lo­gis­tics Lim­it­ed (TELL), where for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) trea­sur­er Howard Chin Lee is a di­rec­tor—but Chin Lee has deemed Ho­sein’s state­ments on the lease mis­lead­ing.”

Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore has promised that Panora­ma 2027 will be the great­est stag­ing of the an­nu­al steel­band com­pe­ti­tion, as the or­gan­i­sa­tion ded­i­cates the sea­son to the late ca­lyp­son­ian Slinger Fran­cis­co, bet­ter known as the Mighty Spar­row.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says she is not sur­prised, but is “ex­cep­tion­al­ly dis­ap­point­ed” by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s re­sponse to con­tro­ver­sial re­marks made by Sport and Youth Af­fairs Min­is­ter Phillip Watts about women in Par­lia­ment.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has an­nounced that Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) work­ers rep­re­sent­ed by the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) will re­ceive out­stand­ing cost-of-liv­ing al­lowance (CO­LA) pay­ments on over­time earn­ings in two in­stal­ments, be­gin­ning in De­cem­ber.

This year’s Di­vali Na­gar cel­e­bra­tions have been dealt a se­vere blow with the pull­out of bmo­bile as an event spon­sor, prompt­ing the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) to ap­peal to the Gov­ern­ment for fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to stage the an­nu­al event.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) is pro­ject­ed to re­ceive an ad­di­tion­al $23 mil­lion in Gov­ern­ment fund­ing for fis­cal 2027, in­creas­ing its pro­posed sub­ven­tion to $160.2 mil­lion as prepa­ra­tions be­gin for Car­ni­val 2027.