A Guapo school­boy is among nine peo­ple who have been is­sued with Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) as part of on­go­ing ef­forts to con­tain vi­o­lent crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties.

The in­tegri­ty of a high-pro­file par­lia­men­tary in­quiry has been thrown in­to ques­tion fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions that Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates coached a key wit­ness she was tasked with scru­ti­n­is­ing.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s award of $3.4 bil­lion in pub­lic hous­ing con­tracts to 11 con­trac­tors, push­ing back against con­cerns raised by for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is over trans­paren­cy in the process.

For­mer min­is­ter of rur­al de­vel­op­ment and lo­cal gov­ern­ment Faris Al-Rawi has added his voice to mount­ing con­cerns over fund­ing short­falls across cor­po­ra­tions, call­ing on cur­rent min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen to “wake up.”

Pay­ments to more than 500 per­form­ers en­gaged in the Gov­ern­ment’s Car­ni­val Fla­va Vil­lage ini­tia­tive ranged from $700 to $60,000, with 90 per cent of artistes al­ready re­ceiv­ing pay­ment to date, Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin says.

There were 1,050 re­port­ed cas­es of stu­dent sus­pen­sion as a con­se­quence of school vi­o­lence across the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem for the Sep­tem­ber to De­cem­ber 2025 pe­ri­od, but no stu­dent was ex­pelled dur­ing that pe­ri­od, says Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath.

The Gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing whether to fill va­can­cies in the pub­lic health sec­tor with Cuban health­care pro­fes­sion­als, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has said.

Al­though a post mortem was or­dered to be per­formed on de­ceased busi­ness­man Wayne Yip Choy yes­ter­day, in­ves­ti­ga­tors con­firmed a sui­cide note was found on his per­son min­utes af­ter he re­port­ed­ly shot him­self.

An armed of­fi­cer on du­ty at Poui Hill, La­dy Chan­cel­lor, Port-of-Spain, had cause to dis­charge his firearm dur­ing the wee hours yes­ter­day af­ter an in­trud­er was spot­ted in the area.

A Pe­tit Val­ley man plead­ed guilty to sev­en counts of as­sault af­ter he at­tacked and bit po­lice of­fi­cers try­ing to ar­rest him dur­ing an in­ci­dent last Fri­day night.

For­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter and po­lit­i­cal ac­tivist De­vant Ma­haraj has lost his fi­nal ap­peal against the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) over its re­fusal to dis­close de­tails of this coun­try’s con­tro­ver­sial Drag­on Field gas deal with Venezuela.

The Board of Di­rec­tors and Sec­re­tari­at of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is mourn­ing the death of for­mer Pres­i­dent Wayne Yip Choy.