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The Ministry of Education yesterday admitted to facing several challenges with the opening of the new school term which involved a bomb threat, fire, protest and foreign objects placed in the sewer system of some schools.

One of the six police officers charged with murdering three friends from Moruga in 2011 has been given the green light to sue the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) over delays in starting their trial.

Three police officers have appeared in court charged with assaulting and kidnapping a man from Diego Martin last year.

The local LGBTQI community says it did not join international counterparts in signing a petition for Commonwealth Heads of Government leaders to discuss issues affecting the groups at their meeting this week, because “what we want them to do is not in the petition.”

One week after sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye captured this country’s first ever gold medal by a female athlete at the Commonwealth Games, a photograph of her and her partner in a compromising position has been leaked online as part of an apparent smear campaign.

A growing outcry against threats of deportation from the UK facing many people of Commonwealth Caribbean background—thousands by some estimates—hit a crescendo here in the Parliament yesterday.

Passengers who travelled on board the T&T Spirit yesterday praised its return to the seabridge after they arrived on board at the Port in Port-of-Spain, following what was a smooth return run.

The Galleons Passage will not arrive in Trinidad and Tobago until mid-May or thereabouts.

That’s the word from Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan as the vessel continues its journey en route to Acapulco, Mexico.