🇹🇹🪖⚠️ — Trinidad y Tobago declares Alert Level 1 for its Armed Forces over all its islands, the highest level of Alert

➡️ The Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF) has been placed on high alert, with all soldiers and Coast Guard officers ordered to report to their respective bases by this evening.

📝 A memo circulated to members yesterday stated that the TTDF has been moved to State One Alert Level—the highest level of operational readiness.

➡️ According to the order, all soldiers are to report to their bases by 6 p.m., with a general muster scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

➡️ The Express understands from multiple intelligence and military sources that soldiers have been directed to return to the four main military bases at Cumuto, La Romaine, Chaguaramas and Long Circular, while Coast Guard officers have been told to report to Staubles Bay, Galeota Point and the Cedros Security Complex.

“This is not a drill,” the memo stated, advising all ranks to make arrangements with their families and prepare for possible confinement.

🇸🇾🇺🇸✡️ NEW: Rabbi Yosef Hamra, spiritual leader of the Syrian Jewish community, has sent a letter to the U.S. Congress urging a full repeal of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act — the sweeping sanctions law that continues to cripple Syria’s reconstruction and energy sectors.

Writing on behalf of the Jewish Heritage in Syria Foundation (JHS), Hamra argues that the Caesar Act, originally imposed to punish the Assad government, now harms Syria’s remaining Jewish heritage and prevents displaced Syrian Jews from returning to restore their synagogues, cemeteries, and communal properties.

“Failing to fully repeal the Caesar Act would be devastating to the Jewish community in Syria,” Hamra wrote, warning that continued sanctions risk “a complete collapse of Syria’s economy and society,” opening space for extremist groups and making reconstruction impossible.

The letter recalls that the Jobar Synagogue in Damascus, one of the oldest in the world, was destroyed during the war despite international pleas to preserve it. JHS says it has managed to protect the tomb of Rabbi Chaim Vital (1542–1620) but warns that further preservation efforts cannot continue under the current sanctions regime.

Hamra concludes by calling on U.S. lawmakers to lift sanctions “for the return of our community to our homeland,” framing the repeal as both a humanitarian and cultural necessity.

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