Ten mi­nors in To­ba­go are fac­ing charges of as­sault by beat­ing fol­low­ing two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents of school-re­lat­ed vi­o­lence, ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­lease.

Home in­va­sion vic­tim Vi­jay Ra­goo­nanan says he sup­ports the Gov­ern­ment’s stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion but in­sists that a stronger po­lice pres­ence is ur­gent­ly need­ed in com­mu­ni­ties.

The min­is­ter told mem­bers of the me­dia that he al­so has a strat­e­gy to en­sure that po­lice of­fi­cers are not burnt out in the com­ing year.

Se­nior Coun­sel Kei­th Scot­land has re­quest­ed al­most two weeks to re­spond to al­le­ga­tions that a le­gal team he led on be­half of the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) mis­led a court in a law­suit.

The tri­al of a nov­el law­suit brought by po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj, chal­leng­ing his pro­tract­ed de­ten­tion in Suri­name as part of a cor­rup­tion probe, has com­menced be­fore the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ).

Ex­perts say the 6.2-mag­ni­tude earth­quake that struck Trinidad and To­ba­go on June 22 last year—record­ed at a depth of 46 km by the UWI Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre—may ex­plain why there were rel­a­tive­ly few re­ports of ma­jor struc­tur­al dam­age.

Tech­ni­cians and en­gi­neers at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC), Mt Hope, spent most of yes­ter­day af­ter­noon work­ing to re­store elec­tric­i­ty through­out the en­tire fa­cil­i­ty af­ter a bolt of light­ning caused a pow­er out­age at the hos­pi­tal.

A to­tal of 22,318 pas­sen­gers and 7,570 ve­hi­cles were trans­port­ed by fer­ries be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go dur­ing the 2025 To­ba­go Car­ni­val last month.

They as­sured there would be an in­crease in pa­trols and greater vis­i­bil­i­ty, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the cap­i­tal city, be­gin­ning from Christ­mas.

Ten mi­nors are fac­ing charges for as­sault by beat­ing in con­nec­tion with two school-re­lat­ed in­ci­dents in To­ba­go.

The Caribbean Cat­a­stro­phe Risk In­sur­ance Fa­cil­i­ty (CCRIF) SPC has an­nounced a sec­ond pay­out of US$21.1 mil­lion to the Gov­ern­ment of Ja­maica due to the trig­ger­ing of the coun­try’s ex­cess rain­fall para­met­ric in­sur­ance pol­i­cy fol­low­ing Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa. This fol­lows a pre­vi­ous pay­out of US$70.8 mil­lion on Ja­maica’s trop­i­cal cy­clone pol­i­cy, bring­ing the to­tal re­ceived from CCRIF to US$91.9 mil­lion.

World lead­ers who de­scend­ed on the Unit­ed Na­tions an­nu­al cli­mate sum­mit in Brazil on Thurs­day on­ly need­ed to look out their air­plane win­dows to sense the un­fath­omable stakes.