Par­ents do­ing last-minute shop­ping in Port-of- Spain say they are grate­ful for the Gov­ern­ment’s one-week ex­ten­sion to the Ju­ly-Au­gust va­ca­tion, as it gave them more time to earn the mon­ey for school­books and sup­plies.

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith has thrown his sup­port be­hind the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to de­com­mis­sion the his­toric Port-of-Spain Prison, de­scrib­ing it as a long over­due step in the right di­rec­tion.

A Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed (CAL) pi­lot has been re­port­ed miss­ing. Po­lice said 59-year-old Daniel Kawall of Palm Road, Val­sayn North, went miss­ing along with his ve­hi­cle, a Toy­ota Hilux reg­is­tered TCM 1787, on Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 3. His fam­i­ly said his last com­mu­ni­ca­tion with them was at 5 pm that day. Calls to his phone have since gone straight to voice­mail, prompt­ing rel­a­tives to file a miss­ing per­son re­port with po­lice.

Eight years af­ter the ma­rine con­tract­ing com­pa­ny they worked for was placed in re­ceiver­ship, 34 for­mer em­ploy­ees have re­ceived their salary ar­rears.

The State is set to pay com­pen­sa­tion to the moth­er of a mur­der vic­tim, who was ar­rest­ed and de­tained with­out be­ing charged over a two-week pe­ri­od in 2019, be­fore his even­tu­al death years lat­er.

Chair­man of the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Josi­ah Austin says there is a short­age of hot mix as­phalt, which is usu­al­ly sup­plied by the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, for them to re­pair road­ways.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of 42-year-old Lyn­don Gib­son, who was gunned down in San­ta Cruz on Thurs­day night.

Po­lice be­lieve a body that washed ashore at Cumana, To­co, yes­ter­day, is that of one of the peo­ple who were on board a boat which was de­stroyed by a Unit­ed States drone stike­off the coast of Venezuela on Tues­day.

With To­ba­go Car­ni­val 2025 less than two months away, band­lead­ers say reg­is­tra­tions are mov­ing strong­ly and prepa­ra­tions are in full swing. But while the pri­vate side of the fes­ti­val is press­ing ahead, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly has re­mained silent.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s push to re­name the De­part­ment of De­fense goes be­yond sub­jec­tive word choic­es about whether to change a name that’s been in place since 1949.

Guyana’s pres­i­dent, Ir­faan Ali, is poised to serve a sec­ond term in this South Amer­i­can coun­try flush with mon­ey from oil and gas pro­duc­tion, ac­cord­ing to pre­lim­i­nary elec­tion re­sults re­leased Fri­day.

The U.S. is send­ing 10 F-35 fight­er jets to the Caribbean for op­er­a­tions tar­get­ing drug car­tels, a source fa­mil­iar with the plans con­firmed Fri­day.