Unit­ed States Am­bas­sador Can­dace Bond says that coun­try stands ready to as­sist T&T in mak­ing ed­u­ca­tion a re­al­i­ty for mi­grant chil­dren. Bond said so dur­ing a vis­it to La Ro­maine Mi­grant Sup­port (LARMS) at the St Bene­dicts Ro­man Catholic Church yes­ter­day. It was her first stop on a vis­it to south Trinidad

The State in­tends to ap­peal Fri­day’s High Court judge­ment which found that the Min­istry of Health failed to pro­vide spe­cialised health care to a six-year-old Ch­agua­nas boy with birth de­fects as­so­ci­at­ed with the Zi­ka virus. This was re­vealed by Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh who com­ment­ed briefly on the mat­ter yes­ter­day

Six po­lice of­fi­cers ac­cused of mur­der­ing three friends in Moru­ga in 2011, will have to re­main on re­mand as their tri­al be­gins to­day. 

The Min­is­ter of Health, Ter­rence Deyals­ingh, has asked the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al to take a look at the ex­ist­ing leg­is­la­tion to reg­u­late va­p­ing in T&T.

A 30-year-old con­struc­tion work­er was grant­ed bail with a sure­ty in the sum of $150,000, or $15,000 cash al­ter­na­tive when he ap­peared at the Princes Town Mag­is­trates’ Court, charged with two counts of Sex­u­al Pen­e­tra­tion yes­ter­day.

A 26-year-old labour­er ac­cused of rape, was grant­ed $250,000 bail with sure­ty, or 25,000 cash al­ter­na­tive when he ap­peared be­fore a Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trate Court on Mon­day 26 May.

An an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by East­ern Di­vi­sion Po­lice on In­di­an Ar­rival Day re­sult­ed in the seizure of uni­forms be­long­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice.

The Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tion Ser­vice (OM) is in­sist­ing that for­mer pres­i­dent De­si Bouterse be jailed for 20 years for his in­volve­ment in the mur­der of 15 peo­ple in the Dutch-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try on De­cem­ber 8, 1982.

Sev­en­teen years af­ter the mur­der of Kevin St John, the case has been solved by the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Cold Case Unit.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will not en­ter­tain the Op­po­si­tion Leader’s re­quest for in­ter­na­tion­al over servers to over­see the up­com­ing Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions.

Over 30,000 peo­ple have ap­plied to the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) to be poll day staff for the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions.

At least 60 in­fants, tod­dlers and old­er chil­dren per­ished over the past six weeks while trapped in har­row­ing con­di­tions in an or­phan­age in Su­dan’s cap­i­tal as fight­ing raged out­side.