Con­cerned Par­ents Move­ment pres­i­dent Clarence Men­doza is call­ing for changes to how schools re­spond to stu­dent vi­o­lence, in­clud­ing manda­to­ry drug test­ing and psy­choso­cial eval­u­a­tions for sus­pend­ed stu­dents.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath wants San Fer­nan­do TML Pri­ma­ry School’s ze­ro-in­dis­ci­pline record to be used as an ex­am­ple and has pledged to cre­ate safer, more dis­ci­plined schools across the coun­try dur­ing his tenure.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has warned pri­ma­ry school stu­dents that get­ting in­to trou­ble at a young age can have last­ing con­se­quences on their fu­ture, in­clud­ing missed job op­por­tu­ni­ties, dif­fi­cul­ty pur­su­ing high­er ed­u­ca­tion, and trou­ble trav­el­ling abroad.

As the avi­a­tion world mourns the lives lost in the trag­ic Air In­dia crash on June 12, one Trinida­di­an avi­a­tor is re­mem­ber­ing the pi­lot at the con­trols not just as a col­league, but as a dear friend and kin­dred spir­it in the sky.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion is un­der­way in­to the death of re­tired po­lice in­spec­tor Karen Bruce, who passed away fol­low­ing a sus­pect­ed sur­gi­cal mishap at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Tues­day.

A 32-year-old Ch­agua­nas woman was tricked out of $5,500 in cash as she tried to “get in” on an al­leged drinks deal.

Ban­dits broke in­to an apart­ment com­plex in Bel­mont and made off with sev­er­al pieces of house­hold fur­ni­ture in­clud­ing beds and couch­es, as the own­er was away for two weeks.

Po­lice say two men walked on­to the Chanka Trace com­pound around 10.30 pm and tied up the se­cu­ri­ty guard on du­ty.The men then walked be­hind the build­ing to the load­ing bay, where they or­dered four work­ers to lie on the ground. They then tied up those work­ers.

Days af­ter po­lice re­leased one of two sus­pects held in con­nec­tion with the at­tempt­ed mur­der of a prison of­fi­cer, the sec­ond sus­pect has died.

A 25-year-old man died on Wednes­day morn­ing, af­ter falling from a col­laps­ing scaf­fold­ing while work­ing in a ware­house on Akaloo Trace, Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas.

A High Court judge has grant­ed a for­mer Cou­va Chil­dren’s Home and Cri­sis Nurs­ery work­er per­mis­sion to pur­sue ju­di­cial re­view pro­ceed­ings against the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of T&T, over what she de­scribed as its pro­longed fail­ure to act on a re­port of pos­si­ble sex­u­al abuse at the home.

A High Court or­der has barred goat graz­ing at Hardial Park in Tu­na­puna, re­solv­ing a near­ly decade-long dis­pute that the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) said had hin­dered the park’s in­tend­ed use for or­gan­ised sports and recre­ation.