Ten mi­nors in To­ba­go are fac­ing charges of as­sault by beat­ing fol­low­ing two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents of school-re­lat­ed vi­o­lence, ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­lease.

In the first case, five stu­dents were charged in con­nec­tion with an as­sault that oc­curred on May 20.

The re­lease said the in­ci­dent be­gan when a stu­dent who was seat­ed in a class­room, was at­tacked and struck sev­er­al times on the head by an­oth­er stu­dent.

Lat­er that day, when the vic­tim’s fa­ther and sis­ter ar­rived to col­lect him, they were al­so re­port­ed­ly as­sault­ed by a group of four stu­dents, all be­tween 13 and 17 years old.

The vic­tims sub­se­quent­ly made a re­port at the Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion, prompt­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion led by PC Ed­wards.

Fol­low­ing in­quiries, five stu­dents were for­mal­ly charged on No­vem­ber 3, 2025.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, this in­ci­dent came in ad­di­tion to an­oth­er case in which five stu­dents were charged in con­nec­tion with an am­bush at­tack on an­oth­er stu­dent at Shaw Park Grounds.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice re­it­er­at­ed in the re­lease its com­mit­ment to a ze­ro-tol­er­ance ap­proach to school vi­o­lence and its de­ter­mi­na­tion to en­sure that schools across To­ba­go re­main safe en­vi­ron­ments for learn­ing and per­son­al de­vel­op­ment.