Eight for­eign na­tion­als were ar­rest­ed dur­ing sep­a­rate ex­er­cis­es in south Trinidad on Thurs­day.

A Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School teacher has ap­peared in the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court charged with sev­en counts of sex­u­al ha­rass­ment against mi­nors.

A 29-year-old man from Cunu­pia, ac­cused of serv­ing as the get­away dri­ver for a man who dis­fig­ured a woman in an acid at­tack in Rio Claro ear­li­er this month, has been grant­ed $250,000 bail.

A com­pa­ny has threat­ened to sue an un­der-con­struc­tion so­lar farm in cen­tral Trinidad for al­leged­ly en­croach­ing on a par­cel of land it has an in­ter­est in.

Busi­ness­man, ac­tivist and me­dia per­son­al­i­ty In­shan Ish­mael passed away yes­ter­day af­ter an 18-month bat­tle with re­nal can­cer.

Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our says the new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ter­mi­nal has not yet been hand­ed over to his min­istry, and he has no word on when that will hap­pen.

To­ba­go’s safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty were the fo­cus of talks be­tween Min­is­ter of De­fence Wayne Sturge and Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine yes­ter­day.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is wel­com­ing planned ac­tiv­i­ties sched­uled for to­mor­row in com­mu­ni­ties across the coun­try, hop­ing they will re­store a sense of uni­ty and to­geth­er­ness as the na­tion cel­e­brates its 63rd in­de­pen­dence an­niver­sary.

Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen says the ac­cu­mu­la­tion of rub­bish in cer­tain ar­eas is the re­sult of the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion di­vert­ing funds from re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions to cre­ate ad­di­tion­al Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and reaf­foresta­tion pro­gramme con­tracts.

Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Trinidad and To­ba­go on the oc­ca­sion of its 63rd an­niver­sary of in­de­pen­dence.

Days af­ter the Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment’s an­nounce­ment that it had pur­chased the Banyan archives from T&T, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has re­vealed it is work­ing on a dig­i­tal archive meant to pre­serve To­ba­go’s his­to­ry.

Of­fi­cials at the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo suc­cess­ful­ly cap­tured a mon­key that was roam­ing around Mar­aval Road, Port-of-Spain, and the sur­round­ing ar­eas on Wednes­day.