The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences and pledged sup­port to the school com­mu­ni­ty of San Juan North Sec­ondary fol­low­ing the death of Form Four stu­dent Isa­iah Pem­ber­ton.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) says the na­tion­al grid re­mains sta­ble de­spite two re­cent volt­age dips that af­fect­ed parts of the coun­try.

The Min­istry of Health, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Med­ical As­so­ci­a­tion (T&TMA), and the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion/World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion Trinidad and To­ba­go Coun­try Of­fice (PA­HO/WHO TTO) have con­clud­ed the na­tion­al Hansen’s Dis­ease Con­tin­u­ing Med­ical Ed­u­ca­tion sem­i­nar se­ries. The ini­tia­tive fo­cused on strength­en­ing the coun­try’s ca­pac­i­ty to di­ag­nose and man­age Hansen’s Dis­ease (Lep­rosy).

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go held a stake­hold­er meet­ing with the Bankers’ As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BATT) on Mon­day led by Gov­er­nor Lar­ry Howai. The ses­sion marked part of a se­ries of en­gage­ments fol­low­ing Gov­er­nor Howai’s re­cent ap­point­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-Is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TTIT) has con­firmed that the M.V. Cabo Star is sched­uled to re­turn to Trinidad on Au­gust 3. The ves­sel has been un­der­go­ing statu­to­ry dry-dock­ing since Ju­ly 12 in Cu­raçao. It will re­sume in­ter-is­land car­go op­er­a­tions on Au­gust 4, once all reg­u­la­to­ry ap­provals and doc­u­men­ta­tion are in place.

For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says he is not sur­prised that crim­i­nal charges against for­mer head of the now-dis­band­ed Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT), In­spec­tor Mark Her­nan­dez, have been dis­missed, de­scrib­ing the ac­cu­sa­tions as a "joke."

A gun­man opened fire Mon­day out­side the largest casi­no in Reno, Neva­da, killing two peo­ple and wound­ing three oth­ers be­fore be­ing tak­en in­to cus­tody, of­fi­cials said.

Po­lice said two sus­pects, one of whom was armed, ap­proached the pair as they sat on a bench and stole cash, iden­ti­fi­ca­tion cards, bank cards, and a cell­phone.

For­mer Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts Ran­dall Mitchell has crit­i­cised Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin over a me­dia re­lease sent to the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ES­CTT), call­ing it poor­ly timed and dis­re­spect­ful.

A for­mer cashier as­signed to the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty has been charged in con­nec­tion with the al­leged em­bez­zle­ment of $718,000 from the State.

ANSA McAL has thrown its sup­port be­hind the 2025 Women in Lead­er­ship (WIL) Con­fer­ence, host­ed by the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness, as part of its push to cre­ate more space for women in lead­er­ship.

Of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU) have un­til 4 pm to­day to ei­ther charge or re­lease a den­tist who was ar­rest­ed last week on sus­pi­cion of re­ceiv­ing a ran­som pay­ment in con­nec­tion with the kid­nap­ping of Jankie Satie Karim.