Stu­dents in­volved in school fights could face crim­i­nal charges if po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions un­cov­er suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence, In­spec­tor Kurt Cal­len­der has warned.

The Ju­di­cia­ry is seek­ing to close a le­gal loop­hole al­leged­ly be­ing used by some mo­torists to evade traf­fic tick­ets.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) mem­bers are be­ing urged to ac­cept the Gov­ern­ment’s fi­nal wage of­fer, as econ­o­mists weigh the coun­try’s se­vere fi­nan­cial con­straints against the de­clin­ing val­ue of mon­ey owed to work­ers af­ter eight years of ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment will move to over­haul the coun­try’s out­dat­ed sys­tem for ap­prov­ing med­ica­tions, ques­tion­ing why drugs al­ready ap­proved by in­ter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised reg­u­la­tors should face lengthy de­lays be­fore reach­ing pa­tients in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Op­po­si­tion MP and for­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of us­ing her re­cent com­ments on stu­dent dis­ci­pline as a dis­trac­tion from fail­ures with­in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion.

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has des­ig­nat­ed 21 Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean crim­i­nal groups as “for­eign ter­ror­ist or­ga­ni­za­tions,” with the lat­est an Ecuado­ri­an group added to the list on Wednes­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA) is call­ing for greater ac­cess to for­eign ex­change (forex) for ve­hi­cle deal­ers as the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares the 2026-2027 Na­tion­al Bud­get.

A 37-year-old St James man has been charged with the mur­der of 49-year-old Miris­sia Weekes, who died at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter al­leged­ly be­ing shot.

An in­quest has been or­dered in­to the death of 26-year-old Sea Lots res­i­dent Ed­win “Teo” Richard­son, who died af­ter be­ing stabbed on Au­gust 26.

Deb­bie-Ann Ot­t­ley has made his­to­ry as the first woman to be elect­ed pres­i­dent of the Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (BIG­WU).

Six peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and mar­i­jua­na and an air ri­fle were seized dur­ing an an­ti crime op­er­a­tion in the Siparia, San­ta Flo­ra and Erin dis­tricts on Wednes­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC) will meet Thurs­day to de­cide on the next step re­gard­ing the Srate of Emer­gency (SoE), which is sched­uled to ex­pire on Sep­tem­ber 17.