Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West Stu­art Young SC says arm­ing home­own­ers is not the be-all and end-all to ad­dress­ing home in­va­sions.

The Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry’s dis­tri­b­u­tion of lap­tops to schools is sched­uled to com­mence to­day, and to date, 19,914 book grants have been suc­cess­ful­ly dis­trib­uted to el­i­gi­ble ap­pli­cants, ac­cord­ing to Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath yes­ter­day.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal ex­pects to re­ceive the re­port on restart­ing the Guaracara re­fin­ery with­in the com­ing days, as plans move for­ward to re­open the fa­cil­i­ty, which has been closed for sev­en years.

The “ten per cent” wage ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) will com­mence to­day at 11 am.

A re­tired po­lice of­fi­cer has won his law­suit over a move by the Of­fice of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er to re­clas­si­fy his ex­tend­ed in­jury leave af­ter his re­tire­ment in 2022. 

A man who was ac­quit­ted of rap­ing a fe­male com­pan­ion but con­vict­ed of phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ing her has been sen­tenced to 12 months in prison.

One of this coun­try’s old­est (since 1968) and top medi­um steel­bands, Val­ley Harps Steel Or­ches­tra, is on a mis­sion to achieve three key goals be­fore Panora­ma 2026, the most ur­gent be­ing se­cur­ing fund­ing to com­pete in the com­pe­ti­tion. The or­ches­tra’s oth­er goals in­clude invit­ing the com­mu­ni­ty back in­to the pa­n­yard and re­cruit­ing new play­ers.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says the re­cent high-lev­el vis­it by US Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen­er­al Dan Caine, is a pos­i­tive move for T&T. Re­spond­ing to crit­i­cism by the Op­po­si­tion over the lack of trans­paren­cy and tim­ing of his vis­it, amidst es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions with Venezuela, Mooni­lal said he did not want to speak “too much” on that mat­ter, as the specifics lay with the Prime Min­is­ter and the min­is­ters with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for law en­force­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will at­tend to­day’s fu­ner­al ser­vice for mur­dered Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor at Ir­win Park Sport­ing Com­plex in Siparia. 

With the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion re­port­ing a rise in the glob­al dis­abil­i­ty pop­u­la­tion, In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Ali­cia Lalite-Eti­enne is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to en­act long-await­ed leg­is­la­tion that gives re­al pro­tec­tion and eq­ui­ty to peo­ple liv­ing with dis­abil­i­ties.

Caribbean Air­lines has rolled out a free bag­gage track­ing sys­tem across its net­work fol­low­ing a phased im­ple­men­ta­tion that be­gan in No­vem­ber 2024.

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices con­tin­ued its na­tion­al dis­as­ter re­lief pro­gramme on Mon­day with a dis­tri­b­u­tion ex­er­cise for af­fect­ed fam­i­lies in the San­gre Grande re­gion.