Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says stricter dis­ci­pli­nary mea­sures may be nec­es­sary to ad­dress ris­ing be­hav­iour­al prob­lems in schools, fol­low­ing Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath’s re­cent dis­clo­sure of an in­crease in in-class­room in­ci­dents.

De­fence at­tor­ney Criston Williams is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to lay both the 2024 and 2025 re­ports of the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) in Par­lia­ment, ar­gu­ing that they would pro­vide vi­tal in­sight in­to gang ac­tiv­i­ties in the coun­try.

Health Min­is­ter Lack­ram Bo­doe says the gov­ern­ment has tak­en a ma­jor step to­ward mod­ernising the coun­try’s phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal reg­u­la­to­ry sys­tem with the launch of a na­tion­al drug data­base, while urg­ing phar­ma­cists to re­main vig­i­lant as chal­lenges in the sec­tor per­sist.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, and for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young are set to go head-to-head in elec­tion pe­ti­tions re­lat­ed to last year’s gen­er­al elec­tions in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

The Court of Ap­peal has been asked to re­view a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar law­suit against a woman ac­cused of us­ing un­due in­flu­ence to gain con­trol of an el­der­ly woman’s prop­er­ty and bank ac­counts.

The moth­er of Gol­con­da res­i­dent Sta­cy Sama­roo, whose body was found float­ing in the sea in Hope, To­ba­go, on Tues­day, said her daugh­ter was un­hap­py on the is­land.

Deputy Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Ansar Ali is warn­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to re­frain from light­ing fires to clear agri­cul­tur­al lands, af­ter an­oth­er bush fire erupt­ed along Rivulet Road in Cou­va, near the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

As the 2026 dry sea­son tight­ens its grip on the land­scape, Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen has is­sued a stark warn­ing, say­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s strug­gle with bush­fires is be­ing fu­elled by a “cul­ture of law­less­ness” re­gard­ing lit­ter­ing and il­le­gal dump­ing.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Thurs­day fired his em­bat­tled Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Sec­re­tary Kristi Noem, af­ter mount­ing crit­i­cism over her lead­er­ship of the de­part­ment, in­clud­ing the han­dling of the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s im­mi­gra­tion crack­down and dis­as­ter re­sponse.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has re­port­ed a tem­po­rary re­duc­tion in wa­ter pro­duc­tion at the De­sali­na­tion Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (DE­SAL­COTT) fa­cil­i­ty due to re­cent changes in the qual­i­ty of the raw sea­wa­ter en­ter­ing the plant.

UE­FA still plans for Qatar to stage the Ar­genti­na vs. Spain game known as Fi­nalis­si­ma this month even as the emi­rate is tar­get­ed by Iran­ian mis­siles in the widen­ing Mid­dle East war start­ed by Is­rael and the Unit­ed States.

The Unit­ed States Em­bassy in Port of Spain has ad­vised US cit­i­zens in Trinidad and To­ba­go to ex­pect in­creased se­cu­ri­ty ac­tiv­i­ty fol­low­ing the de­c­la­ra­tion of a na­tion­wide State of Emer­gency.