With the new school year start­ing to­day, Princes Town Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Gowrie Roop­nar­ine says they have un­der­tak­en grass-cut­ting ex­er­cis­es at 63 schools left un­kept due to the ab­sence of Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) work­ers.

Po­lice are now try­ing to iden­ti­fy a body that washed ashore at Ba­lan­dra beach yes­ter­day, the sec­ond body to be dis­cov­ered on a beach along the north east coast over the week­end.

Just three months shy of the one-year an­niver­sary of the dead­ly col­lapse of Well Ser­vices Rig 110, en­gi­neer­ing ex­perts say they are still no clos­er to de­ter­min­ing what caused the in­ci­dent on De­cem­ber 22.  

While the re­cent sus­pen­sion of Caribbean Air­lines flights to Cara­cas,Venezuela, is a no­tice­able de­vel­op­ment, it is not ex­pect­ed to sig­nif­i­cant­ly dis­rupt T&T’s wider econ­o­my.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is­sued a stern warn­ing to crim­i­nals to­day, say­ing those who choose a life of crime will “en­counter my of­fi­cers” and face “the full weight of the law,” fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful res­cue of Caribbean Air­lines pi­lot Cap­tain Daniel Kawall in the Mar­aval dis­trict, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) con­firmed.

Unit­ed States air­craft were in­volved in a low pass fly over of George­town, the cap­i­tal, as Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali was be­ing sworn in­to of­fice on Sun­day for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive five year term.

Leader of the Op­po­si­tion, Pen­ne­lope Beck­les re­ceived a cour­tesy call from Her Ex­cel­len­cy Dr. Lin­da Sobeh Ali, Am­bas­sador of the State of Pales­tine to Trinidad and To­ba­go, on Fri­day at the Of­fice of the Leader of the Op­po­si­tion.

As thou­sands of chil­dren re­turn to class­rooms for the new aca­d­e­m­ic year, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar high­light­ed the gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts to make schools safe and dig­i­tal­ly equipped, co­in­cid­ing with the Unit­ed Na­tions’ In­ter­na­tion­al Lit­er­a­cy Day.

The Hunters Search and Res­cue Team con­firmed to­day that po­lice res­cued pi­lot Daniel Kawall in the Mar­aval dis­trict.

A team from the For­eign Af­fairs Min­istry is cur­rent­ly rep­re­sent­ing T&T in Ethiopia at the Sec­ond Africa-Cari­com Sum­mit, whose theme fo­cus­es on part­ner­ships in pur­suit of repa­ra­tions for peo­ple of African de­scent.

Con­flict­ing ac­counts have emerged over the ar­rest of ten men out­side the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Prison su­per­vi­sor Garth Gua­da has been qui­et­ly re­moved from the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) and placed un­der De­fence Force cus­tody at Teteron Bar­racks, Ch­aguara­mas, af­ter State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­ten­tion or­ders al­leged he con­tin­ued to fa­cil­i­tate gang ac­tiv­i­ty while be­hind bars.