Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has de­fend­ed the dis­missal of 400 Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) work­ers, say­ing the Op­po­si­tion has no moral au­thor­i­ty to crit­i­cise the move.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent de­ci­sion to ter­mi­nate more than 400 work­ers em­ployed un­der the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme across 12 re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the fa­tal shoot­ing of a Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer while he was on du­ty at the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment at Kent House in Mar­aval yes­ter­day.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has warned that there are al­ready ex­ist­ing sys­tems in schools to deal with con­flict, and par­ents can face sanc­tions if they take mat­ters in­to their own hands.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath is launch­ing a probe in­to al­le­ga­tions that a Form Two stu­dent was al­leged­ly abused and bul­lied by a fe­male Phys­i­cal Ed­u­ca­tion teacher at a school in the St Patrick Dis­trict.

Par­ents of stu­dents at­tend­ing the Ari­ma North Sec­ondary School say they are very dis­turbed af­ter a video went vi­ral show­ing a fe­male teacher and a fe­male stu­dent fight­ing.

Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez is now warn­ing T&T against any plans of ag­gres­sion against the “peo­ple of Simón Bolí­var,” say­ing, “Don’t even think about it.”

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has is­sued three new Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2025, tar­get­ing high-rank­ing mem­bers of or­gan­ised crime groups in T&T.

Se­nior pub­lic ser­vice of­fi­cials re­main tight-lipped on re­ports that Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram is un­der pres­sure to re­sign. But a se­nior pub­lic health spe­cial­ist has con­demned the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of the sit­u­a­tion as “dis­grace­ful”, while Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne has warned the ad­min­is­tra­tion to keep its hands off the CMO.

Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Hay­den Forde says he is yet to re­ceive any in­struc­tions from the Gov­ern­ment through any min­istry to be­gin pro­cess­ing Venezue­lan in­mates to fa­cil­i­tate their de­por­ta­tion from T&T.

Dr Sih­lè Le­tren has an­nounced her res­ig­na­tion as Miss Uni­verse Trinidad and To­ba­go, step­ping down ahead of the Miss Uni­verse 2025 com­pe­ti­tion.

Gov­ern­ment will recog­nise the top 200 high-per­form­ing stu­dents and the top 25 pri­ma­ry schools from the 2025 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) Ex­am.