On Ju­ly 4, 1776, the De­c­la­ra­tion of In­de­pen­dence was adopt­ed by del­e­gates to the Sec­ond Con­ti­nen­tal Con­gress in Philadel­phia.

Men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als are cau­tion­ing par­ents and guardians of stu­dents who re­ceived their Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am re­sults on Thurs­day night to man­age their re­ac­tions to the out­comes.

Po­lice are search­ing for a sus­pect who fa­tal­ly shot a 23-year-old man dur­ing a con­fronta­tion in Tar­o­dale, Ste Madeleine, on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) marks its 52nd an­niver­sary to­day, CARI­COM Day 2025, with a re­flec­tion on the re­gion’s shared his­to­ry, cul­ture, and as­pi­ra­tions for the fu­ture.

Haiti con­tin­ues to wal­low in deep cri­sis as crim­i­nal gangs en­trench their vi­o­lent con­trol over near­ly 90 per cent of Port-au-Prince and oth­er parts of the coun­try. These armed groups have be­come a de fac­to regime of ter­ror.

Or­ange no-en­try signs post­ed by the U.S. mil­i­tary in Eng­lish and Span­ish dot the New Mex­i­co desert, where a bor­der wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranch­es with tufts of tall grass grow­ing amidst wiry brush and yuc­ca trees.

In­dia Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di has told mem­bers of the In­di­an di­as­po­ra here that they will soon be el­i­gi­ble for Over­seas Cit­i­zen­ship of In­dia (OCI), as he praised the strong cul­tur­al and his­toric ties be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and In­dia.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pressed her grat­i­tude to In­dia Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di for the com­pas­sion he demon­strat­ed to­wards Trinidad and To­ba­go and oth­er small na­tions dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The Gov­ern­ment has re­spond­ed to con­cerns raised by Mus­lim groups about In­dia Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di’s vis­it to T&T, by say­ing that it is com­mit­ted to the prin­ci­ples of equal­i­ty and re­spect while ful­fill­ing its diplo­mat­ic en­gage­ments.

Pope Leo XIV has ap­point­ed Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don a mem­ber of the Di­cas­t­ery for In­ter­re­li­gious Di­a­logue.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 25 Port of Port-of-Spain work­ers who downed tools last week have re­turned to work. The mat­ter was tem­porar­i­ly re­solved af­ter dis­cus­sions with Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers’ Trade Union (SWW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al Michael An­nisette, who al­so serves as chair­man of Port and Mar­itime Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (PM­SL), the com­pa­ny to which the work­ers are con­tract­ed.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young, SC, is lead­ing the le­gal team for fired Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire.