The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) have con­firmed plans to stage pub­lic con­sul­ta­tions on the pro­posed stand-your-ground law (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, in the com­ing weeks.

New­ly ap­point­ed In­dus­tri­al Court judge Rudranath In­dars­ingh says that al­though he has long­stand­ing ties to the gov­ern­ment, his con­duct on the bench will demon­strate his im­par­tial­i­ty.

A busi­ness­man has with­drawn his law­suit over a pro­tract­ed de­lay in de­cid­ing on his Firearm User’s Li­cence (FUL) ap­pli­ca­tion af­ter Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro agreed to com­plete the process be­fore the end of next month.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has de­nied claims that CEO Garvin Med­era has been sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave. On Wednes­day a mes­sage be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing on­line ti­tled “Caribbean Air­lines An­nounces Lead­er­ship Tran­si­tion and Sta­bil­i­ty and Growth Strat­e­gy”.

As par­ents and guardians rushed to make last-minute prepa­ra­tions ahead of schools re­open­ing next week, of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) launched an ini­tia­tive in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day to ease stu­dents’ re­turn by pro­vid­ing free hair­cuts to scores of young men and women.

The Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic is set to host a his­toric mile­stone in its eco­nom­ic and lo­gis­ti­cal de­vel­op­ment with the ar­rival of Ama­zon as a Caribbean dis­tri­b­u­tion hub.

A Span­ish-speak­ing man iden­ti­fied as Ed­imir Gon­za­les was killed by an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer on In­de­pen­dence Day af­ter at­tack­ing a prison of­fi­cer.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath, the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cou­va South, made the an­nounce­ment dur­ing a book grant dis­tri­b­u­tion ex­er­cise in his con­stituen­cy on Wednes­day.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says all 279 gov­ern­ment and gov­ern­ment-as­sist­ed pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary schools se­lect­ed for up­grades will be ready to wel­come stu­dents when the new aca­d­e­m­ic year be­gins on Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 8.

A woman iden­ti­fied as Lysanne Julien died af­ter the ve­hi­cle she was in crashed at the cor­ner of Park and Hen­ry Streets on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Four al­leged gang lead­ers are among eight men de­tained un­der the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions, fol­low­ing de­ten­tion or­ders signed at the re­quest of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der.

Found­ing mem­ber of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment, Fer­die Fer­reira, says Amer­i­can claims that war ships have been sent to the re­gion be­cause of an in­flux of drugs to the U.S. are “lu­di­crous and high­ly ques­tion­able”.