Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­grat­u­lat­ed the Ho­n­ourable Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh on his ap­point­ment as Chief Jus­tice of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Three men have ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court charged with the of­fence of mov­ing body, con­trary to the Coro­ner’s Act.

A Port-of-Spain man charged with mur­der has been or­dered to un­der­go a psy­chi­atric eval­u­a­tion af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court.

Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has been sworn in as Chief Jus­tice af­ter he re­ceived his in­stru­ment of ap­point­ment this af­ter­noon from Act­ing Pres­i­dent Wade Mark at Pres­i­dent’s House in the pres­ence of sev­er­al dig­ni­taries, in­clud­ing out­go­ing Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie.

U.S. Sec­re­tary of War Pe­te Hegseth an­nounced that the Unit­ed States car­ried out a lethal strike on a ves­sel op­er­at­ed by a des­ig­nat­ed ter­ror­ist or­ga­ni­za­tion in the East­ern Pa­cif­ic.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) is still in­ves­ti­gat­ing what caused a sec­ond ma­jor pow­er out­age in To­ba­go last night, less than 12 hours af­ter the first in­ci­dent.

Two bus­es and two oth­er ve­hi­cles crashed ear­ly Wednes­day on a high­way in west­ern Ugan­da, killing at least 46 peo­ple, po­lice said, in one of the worst mo­tor ac­ci­dents in the East African coun­try in re­cent years.

Trop­i­cal Storm Melis­sa dumped heavy rain on parts of Haiti and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Wednes­day as fore­cast­ers warned of a sig­nif­i­cant flood risk in parts of the north­ern Caribbean in the com­ing days.

The Book Grant and School Sup­plies Pro­gramme is now in doubt af­ter the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter con­firmed it is cur­rent­ly un­der re­view. No funds have been al­lo­cat­ed to the ini­tia­tive in this fi­nan­cial year.

With just six weeks left in the life of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine of­fered no hint of an elec­tion time­line, say­ing on­ly that it “could be any time” and that no de­ci­sion has yet been tak­en on dis­solv­ing the As­sem­bly.

Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien has re­ject­ed claims by the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Cor­po­ra­tion (NEC) that it owes sev­er­al mil­lion dol­lars in retroac­tive port fees, trig­ger­ing a stand­off that has forced the com­pa­ny to be­gin a con­trolled shut­down of its Trinidad Ni­tro­gen op­er­a­tions.

As hun­dreds, pos­si­bly thou­sands, of peo­ple sign up for jobs un­der the Gov­ern­ment’s Na­tion­al Re­cruit­ment Dri­ve, sev­er­al min­istries are prepar­ing to short­list ap­pli­cants and be­gin in­ter­views in the com­ing weeks.