Three peo­ple, in­clud­ing the cap­tain of the ill-fat­ed MV Bari­ma that sank on Ju­ly 18, killing more than 100 peo­ple, ap­peared in court on Mon­day, but the mat­ter was ad­journed to Sep­tem­ber 14.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da’s Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter, Daryll Matthew, has de­scribed as “his­toric” the de­ci­sion to pro­vide “uni­ver­sal free ed­u­ca­tion from ear­ly child­hood to uni­ver­si­ty” as the new school term got un­der­way in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da on Mon­day.

Fed­er­al in­ves­ti­ga­tors ex­am­in­ing why an Ama­zon car­go jet bar­reled off a run­way at Mi­a­mi In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port and in­to ve­hi­cles, killing at least five peo­ple, are like­ly to fo­cus on a cru­cial mo­ment in the land­ing: whether the plane touched down too late to stop safe­ly.

CARI­COM is call­ing for deep­er co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the Caribbean and Africa as the Com­mu­ni­ty marks the fifth an­niver­sary of CARI­COM-Africa Day.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion said all 777 Gov­ern­ment and Gov­ern­ment-As­sist­ed schools, in­clud­ing Ear­ly Child­hood Care and Ed­u­ca­tion cen­tres, opened on Mon­day for the start of the 2026/2027 aca­d­e­m­ic year, al­though re­pair work re­mains out­stand­ing at a few schools.

A 65-year-old busi­ness­man is as­sist­ing po­lice with in­ves­ti­ga­tions af­ter he in­ad­ver­tent­ly left his li­censed firearm and am­mu­ni­tion on the rear bumper of his ve­hi­cle in El So­cor­ro on Sun­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has urged teach­ers to send dis­rup­tive stu­dents home and leave par­ents to deal with them, sig­nalling a ze­ro-tol­er­ance ap­proach to in­dis­ci­pline as schools re­open for the 2026/2027 aca­d­e­m­ic year to­day.

Po­lice will use da­ta gath­ered dur­ing the last aca­d­e­m­ic year to tar­get fight­ing, va­p­ing and mar­i­jua­na pos­ses­sion in schools this term, with 51 schools re­main­ing on the School-Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing (SOP) pro­gramme for now.

As teach­ers re­turn to class­rooms to­day, Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) pres­i­dent Crys­tal Ashe is warn­ing that schools can­not func­tion ef­fec­tive­ly while key re­sources, per­son­nel and sup­port sys­tems re­main un­re­solved.

So­ca star Machel Mon­tano re­ceived mul­ti­ple of­fi­cial ho­n­ours in New York last Thurs­day, as thou­sands gath­ered out­side the Brook­lyn Pub­lic Li­brary (BPL) to watch the sto­ry of his life and ca­reer pro­ject­ed on­to the façade of the land­mark build­ing.

While all schools are sched­uled to re­open to­day, some par­ents of stu­dents at Fyz­abad An­gli­can Sec­ondary School say they will be keep­ing their chil­dren at home due to con­cerns about con­demned build­ings and oth­er in­fra­struc­tur­al is­sues.

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning has re­ject­ed claims that sup­port for him with­in the con­stituen­cy is dwin­dling, fol­low­ing a re­port by an in­ter­nal Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) com­mit­tee sug­gest­ing the par­ty’s long-held strong­hold could be un­der threat.