With just over three weeks to go be­fore the new aca­d­e­m­ic school year be­gins, the Gov­ern­ment has an­nounced that po­lice of­fi­cers will be as­signed to schools across the coun­try.

A taxi dri­ver was shot dur­ing a hold-up in Pe­nal on Wednes­day morn­ing, but quick ac­tion by se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers led to the ar­rest of two Venezue­lan na­tion­als min­utes lat­er.

Al­though Movi­eTowne chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO) Derek Chin has al­leged that the Port Au­thor­i­ty of T&T sought to take its land, a di­rec­tor at Movi­eTowne says while the board found the op­er­a­tions of the Port Au­thor­i­ty last year to be ques­tion­able, there was no ev­i­dence that there was a con­cert­ed ef­fort at land grab­bing in In­vaders Bay.

The fam­i­ly of slain teacher Bhag­mat Seemu­n­gal has con­demned the re­duced prison terms giv­en to five men, in­clud­ing her hus­band, who plead­ed guilty to her 2009 mur­der.

A day at the beach yes­ter­day turned trag­ic for a group of friends from Ari­ma, when 35-year-old An­drew Cur­tis Clarke went miss­ing in the sea at Pen­zante Bay, Ba­lan­dra.

The Min­istry of Health is warn­ing the pub­lic, af­ter 300 vials of fen­tanyl were re­port­ed miss­ing fol­low­ing a de­liv­ery dis­crep­an­cy to a pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ty.

While for­mer prime min­is­ter and ex-en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of tak­ing full cred­it for the pro­duc­tion-shar­ing con­tract (PSC) with Exxon­Mo­bil, the Prime Min­is­ter ap­peared un­fazed.

Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) re­sults are set to be re­leased to­day along with in­for­ma­tion about the per­for­mance of stu­dent by top of­fi­cials in the Cay­man Is­lands.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Bar­ry Padarath, met with Deryck Richard­son, Pres­i­dent of the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (EPA), to ad­dress is­sues raised by the EPA on be­half of its mem­bers.

A for­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (Cepep) con­trac­tor has ap­pealed a de­ci­sion of a judge to stay its law­suit over the re­cent ter­mi­na­tion of it and over 300 oth­er con­trac­tors.

Nicholas Pooran has been ap­point­ed cap­tain of the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers for the up­com­ing CPL sea­son.

While the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) in Trinidad is in tran­si­tion while be­ing re­struc­tured, To­ba­go's URP con­tin­ues on the job with projects - the lat­est be­ing a "facelift" for the area lead­ing to Pi­geon Point Beach in time for Sat­ur­day's an­nu­al Great Race event.