The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) is mourn­ing the pass­ing of Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor Bald­win Mootoo, a pi­o­neer­ing aca­d­e­m­ic whose ca­reer was deeply wo­ven in­to the in­sti­tu­tion’s his­to­ry and growth.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) has voiced grave con­cern over es­ca­lat­ing hos­til­i­ties in the Mid­dle East, par­tic­u­lar­ly mil­i­tary ac­tion in the Strait of Hor­muz. Cari­com high­light­ed the se­vere hu­man­i­tar­i­an toll, threats to civ­il in­fra­struc­ture, and the desta­bi­liz­ing im­pact on glob­al mar­kets caused by the con­flict.

The Ho­n­ourable De­vesh Ma­haraj, Min­is­ter of Jus­tice and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, pre­sent­ed in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to the new­ly ap­point­ed board of the Le­gal Aid & Ad­vi­so­ry Au­thor­i­ty dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny held at the Au­thor­i­ty’s head of­fice to­day.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said he is hold­ing off on a mil­i­tary strike on Iran planned for Tues­day be­cause “se­ri­ous ne­go­ti­a­tions” are un­der­way.

The In­dus­tri­al Court of Trinidad and To­ba­go is mourn­ing the death of long-serv­ing judge Her Ho­n­our Ms Bindi­mat­tie Ma­habir.

In a co­or­di­nat­ed an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing, law en­force­ment of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed 21 in­di­vid­u­als and seized cash and al­co­hol dur­ing a raid in the D’Abadie dis­trict.

Of­fi­cers at­tached to the Mor­vant Po­lice Sta­tion and the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (NEDTF) seized 15 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Mor­vant on Mon­day.

A 22-year-old British na­tion­al is ex­pect­ed to face charges af­ter of­fi­cers of the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion in­ter­cept­ed near­ly TT$6 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Sun­day.

A third sus­pect has been ar­rest­ed in the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias Plaza in To­ba­go.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says To­bag­o­ni­ans are “damn vex” over the “Nan­cy sto­ries be­ing ped­dled” in the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar must clear the air on what the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress-ap­point­ed Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny Board was hid­ing from Moody’s cred­it rat­ing agency and the Gov­ern­ment al­so has ques­tions to an­swer to the pub­lic on the Land­mark­TT “web” that was wo­ven.

Roberts, who was ap­point­ed to the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion based on a rec­om­men­da­tion from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), made the an­nounce­ment as he at­tend­ed the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sports and Fam­i­ly Day at Nel­son Man­dela Park in St Clair yes­ter­day.