De­spite the coun­try’s fi­nan­cial con­straints, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlat has con­firmed that 18,000 lap­tops will be dis­trib­uted to all Form One stu­dents, re­gard­less of their par­ents’ in­come lev­el.

Re­call­ing her child­hood trau­ma of be­ing bul­lied for be­ing over­weight in school, for­mer jour­nal­ist and Head of Mar­ket­ing at the Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion Hema Ramkissoon has urged stu­dents to be kind to each oth­er and to seek help if they are be­ing bul­lied.

Po­lice are search­ing for an as­sailant who shot a 30-year-old man as he re­turned to his South Oropouche home on Mon­day night.

A trag­ic ac­ci­dent at Gulf City Mall has claimed the life of a man who was try­ing to help a woman park her car.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has con­firmed that the Po­lice Ser­vice is in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports of an in­ci­dent on the com­pound of the San­ta Rosa Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, in­volv­ing an in­trud­er who al­leged­ly at­tempt­ed to sex­u­al­ly as­sault sev­er­al stu­dents, on June 10, 2025.

Rel­a­tives of Jamie Mo­hammed have fi­nal­ly re­ceived DNA con­fir­ma­tion that the de­cap­i­tat­ed body found in Siparia is hers.

A re­quest for wit­ness pro­tec­tion for the fam­i­ly of the stu­dent who was bru­tal­ly at­tacked and se­vere­ly in­jured at the South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School ear­li­er this month, has been de­nied.

Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has been ap­point­ed Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, ef­fec­tive June 18. The ap­point­ment fol­lows the com­ple­tion of the re­cruit­ment and se­lec­tion process con­duct­ed by the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion.

A 19-year-old St Joseph teenag­er was stabbed mul­ti­ple times dur­ing a fight with a group of men in St Au­gus­tine on Mon­day night.

The Ba­hamas gov­ern­ment says it is paus­ing the re­cruit­ment of nurs­es from Cu­ba and will al­so can­cel its ex­ist­ing con­tracts with a Cuban re­cruit­ment agency.

Is­rael claimed Tues­day to have killed a top Iran­ian gen­er­al as it trad­ed more strikes with its long­time foe, and U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump warned res­i­dents of Tehran to evac­u­ate while sug­gest­ing that the Unit­ed States could give up on ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Po­lice are still in­ves­ti­gat­ing the shoot­ing death of 74-year-old Frank Alan Sandy, who was killed by an off-du­ty of­fi­cer in Mt St George, To­ba­go.