Krisann Be­dassie, 17, has made his­to­ry by be­com­ing the first stu­dent from T&T to be ac­cept­ed in­to the pres­ti­gious Yale Young Glob­al Schol­ars Pro­gramme.

De­fence Min­is­ter and To­co/San­gre Grande MP Wayne Sturge said he nev­er want­ed a min­is­te­r­i­al post, but Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told him it was too late.

While he did not go in­to the spe­cif­ic de­tails of how de­por­tees would be mon­i­tored, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der main­tained that lo­cal law en­force­ment would con­tin­ue to en­sure that peo­ple re­turn­ing to T&T obey the law.

Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing four sep­a­rate, un­re­lat­ed vi­o­lent in­ci­dents that took place across the dis­trict on Sat­ur­day—two shoot­ings and two stab­bings.

Is­raeli strikes over the past 24 hours killed at least 38 peo­ple in Gaza, in­clud­ing a moth­er and her two chil­dren shel­ter­ing in a tent, lo­cal health of­fi­cials said Sun­day, with no da­ta avail­able for a sec­ond straight day from now-in­ac­ces­si­ble hos­pi­tals in the north.

Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley will lead the Bar­ba­dos Labour Par­ty (BLP) in­to the next gen­er­al elec­tion, af­ter all, she an­nounced Sat­ur­day night.

Six­teen dri­vers were is­sued fixed penal­ty no­tices dur­ing a speed en­force­ment op­er­a­tion on Thurs­day, as po­lice con­tin­ue to warn mo­torists about the height­ened risks of dri­ving in wet con­di­tions.

Xabi Alon­so is re­turn­ing to Re­al Madrid to take over a club that failed to meet ex­pec­ta­tions this sea­son.

Po­lice are try­ing to de­ter­mine the de­tails sur­round­ing the shoot­ing death of a 23-year-old San­ta Cruz man who was tak­en to the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Sat­ur­day night.

A video cir­cu­lat­ing on Face­book shows cracks and ero­sion near the new­ly opened Guaico Road ex­it of the Elmi­na Clarke-Allen High­way, a 7-kilo­me­tre stretch that con­nects Cu­mu­to to San­gre Grande. The footage has raised con­cerns among res­i­dents, but an en­gi­neer in­volved in the project says the is­sues are tem­po­rary and part of on­go­ing work.

As a uni­ver­si­ty fo­cused on us­ing re­search for the up­lift­ment of its com­mu­ni­ty, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine (UWI STA), the pre­mier ter­tiary in­sti­tu­tion in the re­gion, pro­duc­ing world-class schol­ars, be­lieves sci­ence should be ac­ces­si­ble to the pub­lic.

A qui­et shift in le­gal gun own­er­ship may be un­fold­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go—and it seems women are lead­ing the move.