The Hugh Wood­ing Law School in Trinidad will have a new prin­ci­pal at the helm, start­ing Au­gust 1, 2025, the Coun­cil of Le­gal Ed­u­ca­tion (CLE) has con­firmed.

The first aid trucks have en­tered Gaza fol­low­ing near­ly three months of Is­rael’s com­plete block­ade, ac­cord­ing to Is­rael and the Unit­ed Na­tions.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter, Dr Ho­race Chang, says the re­cent acts of vi­o­lence com­mit­ted against women and girls will re­main as a stain on Ja­maica’s na­tion­al char­ac­ter even as he promised that such acts will not be tol­er­at­ed and will be met with the full force of the law.

As of 9am on Mon­day, 19 May 2025, the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment is warn­ing of pos­si­ble lo­calised flood­ing due to high tide and slow runoff.

The Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (DM­BC) ac­ti­vat­ed its Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit at 11:00 a.m. yes­ter­day in re­sponse to heavy rain­fall on May 17 and 18 that re­sult­ed in sev­er­al in­ci­dents across the bor­ough.

Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing three sep­a­rate rob­beries that took place with­in a three-hour pe­ri­od on Sun­day morn­ing in Ch­agua­nas and Cunu­pia.

Dis­as­ter re­sponse ex­perts, mil­i­tary of­fi­cials, and hu­man­i­tar­i­an agen­cies from across the Amer­i­c­as will par­tic­i­pate in the four-day Mech­a­nism for Dis­as­ter Co­op­er­a­tion Ex­er­cise (MECODEX 2025) which gets un­der­way in Guyana on Mon­day.

Over the past 12 hours, at­mos­pher­ic con­di­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go have re­mained rel­a­tive­ly sta­ble, aid­ed by the pres­ence of Sa­ha­ran dust, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TT Met Of­fice).

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump used the first ma­jor for­eign trip of his sec­ond term to out­line a vi­sion for restor­ing glob­al sta­bil­i­ty that is ground­ed in prag­ma­tism and self-in­ter­est rather than val­ues, hold­ing out U.S. ties to wealthy Gulf coun­tries as a mod­el for Amer­i­ca’s long­time foes.

Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment and lo­cal gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives, led by the Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen, were on the ground yes­ter­day, as over 40 re­ports of flood­ing, land­slips and fall­en trees were re­ceived across Trinidad.

As wide­spread tor­ren­tial rain­fall bat­tered the coun­try this week­end, res­i­dents of Rio Claro com­plained of se­ri­ous loss­es.

Yes­ter­day, most of Trinidad awoke to heavy rain­fall and gusty winds in some ar­eas due to the con­ver­gence of winds in the low­er lev­els of the at­mos­phere, cou­pled with favourable up­per lev­el con­di­tions, en­hanc­ing the al­ready un­sta­ble set­up.