Na­tion­al Par­ent-Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA) pres­i­dent Wal­ter Stew­art praised Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath for what he called a “Her­culean achieve­ment” in school re­pairs ahead of the start of the new term.

Po­lice in Nepal’s cap­i­tal of Kath­man­du opened fire Mon­day on demon­stra­tors protest­ing a gov­ern­ment at­tempt to reg­u­late so­cial me­dia that blocked some of the world’s largest plat­forms, in­clud­ing Face­book, X and YouTube. At least 17 peo­ple were killed.

To­ba­go’s fish­er­folk say they are alarmed by the “deaf­en­ing si­lence” of Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine fol­low­ing the Unit­ed States’ de­struc­tion of a Venezue­lan ves­sel that left 11 peo­ple dead.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed three sus­pects and seized a quan­ti­ty of cannabis dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the Trinci­ty dis­trict over the week­end.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Selvon Ramjit of Erin Road, Quar­ry Vil­lage. He had gone to the beach with rel­a­tives and en­tered the wa­ter at about 3:30 pm.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has com­plet­ed works to re­place 70 me­tres of sew­er pipeline along Sut­ton Street, be­tween Prince of Wales and Prince Al­bert Streets in San Fer­nan­do.

Two peo­ple have now been charged in con­nec­tion with a pay­roll fraud and mon­ey laun­der­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion at the Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion.

Caribbean Air­lines em­ploy­ees have do­nat­ed near­ly 7,000 items through the air­line’s 2025 Sta­tionery Dri­ve, sup­port­ing chil­dren’s homes and non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Four sus­pects were ar­rest­ed and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and quan­ti­ties of co­caine seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed over the week­end in the South­ern, South West­ern, and To­ba­go Di­vi­sions.

Van­dals stole elec­tri­cal ca­bles and con­trol equip­ment from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) Scott’s Road Well #1 over the week­end, cut­ting wa­ter sup­ply to thou­sands of cus­tomers in south Trinidad.

One man was killed while three oth­ers were tak­en in­to cus­tody be­tween Sat­ur­day night and mid­day yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful res­cue of kid­napped Caribbean Air­lines pi­lot Daniel Kawall.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath is as­sur­ing that the armed of­fi­cers who will be de­ployed in 50 high-risk sec­ondary schools from to­day will not be pa­trolling the com­pounds and will stay out of the way of staff and stu­dents un­less they are called to ac­tion.