There is no deny­ing that 72-year-old Gary Julien bears a strik­ing re­sem­blance to for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

Near­ly 2,000 stu­dents were sus­pend­ed in a sin­gle school term dur­ing the 2021/2022 aca­d­e­m­ic year—a star­tling in­di­ca­tor of ris­ing dis­ci­pline chal­lenges in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem.

The Com­mon­wealth Ob­serv­er Group’s fi­nal re­port on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion has raised mul­ti­ple con­cerns about the coun­try’s elec­toral en­vi­ron­ment, high­light­ing al­le­ga­tions of bribery, gaps in cam­paign fi­nance laws, vot­er dis­en­gage­ment, un­equal me­dia ac­cess, and un­der­rep­re­sen­ta­tion of women in Par­lia­ment.

The Caribbean has lost two vi­sion­ary voic­es in the me­dia. Vet­er­an lo­cal broad­cast­er Hans Hanoomans­ingh and re­gion­al colum­nist Rick­ey Singh both passed away yes­ter­day.

A dri­ver at­tached to Fur­ness Trinidad Lim­it­ed was robbed at gun­point by three men yes­ter­day morn­ing as he left Sea Lots af­ter col­lect­ing mon­ey for his em­ploy­er.

Ten days af­ter the bod­ies of two His­pan­ic women were dis­cov­ered in a shal­low grave in Cunu­pia, an­oth­er woman has been found mur­dered—this time, her body dumped in a drain in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas.

A Venezue­lan na­tion­al is among four peo­ple shot and wound­ed when gun­men opened fire on the ve­hi­cle they were trav­el­ling in.

More than $6.5 bil­lion in pub­lic funds was pumped in­to the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) over 15 years–be­tween 2009 and 2023–by the Gov­ern­ment.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro yes­ter­day met with the fam­i­ly of mur­dered teenag­er Zion Roberts, of­fer­ing words of com­fort and as­sur­ing them that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) would do every­thing pos­si­ble to bring those re­spon­si­ble to jus­tice.

As re­gion­al lead­ers con­vene in Mon­tego Bay, Ja­maica, to­day for the 49th Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing, this coun­try’s Prime Min­is­ter will be un­ex­plain­ably ab­sent. This means Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has cho­sen to skip the first Cari­com meet­ing of this mag­ni­tude to oc­cur dur­ing her sec­ond term as Prime Min­is­ter.

With near­ly all of a $19 mil­lion con­tract al­ready paid to a con­trac­tor for the re­fur­bish­ment of the Chatham Youth De­vel­op­ment Ap­pren­tice­ship Cen­tre, Sports and Youth Af­fairs Min­is­ter Phillip Watts is now ques­tion­ing where the mon­ey went, giv­en that the project is on­ly 70 per cent com­plete.

Em­ploy­ees and pa­trons at the Peake Yacht Ser­vices Ma­ri­na in Ch­aguara­mas around 8:15 yes­ter­day morn­ing re­ceived a spe­cial vis­it from the world’s biggest fish, the Whale Shark.