With a high rate of child­hood obe­si­ty and non­com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases (NCDs), the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion is set to crack down on sug­ary drinks and high-fat snacks in schools, aim­ing to pro­tect stu­dents’ health and learn­ing.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, says he has in­struct­ed the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) to work with the Min­istry of Cul­ture to cre­ate spaces where fetes can be held. Swarats­ingh al­so holds the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the en­vi­ron­ment. He made the com­ments in an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia at COP30 yes­ter­day in Belem, Brazil, a day af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­pand­ed her Gov­ern­ment’s clam­p­down on noise pol­lu­tion, or­der­ing an im­me­di­ate halt to fetes at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um and the Jean Pierre Com­plex ex­cept dur­ing the de­fined Car­ni­val win­dow.

A swift re­sponse from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) af­ter a mid-morn­ing fire at the Aranguez North Sec­ondary School yes­ter­day re­sult­ed in the safe evac­u­a­tion of stu­dents, teach­ers, and vis­it­ing ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cials.

The Arch­dio­cese of Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day said it was not go­ing to com­ment on a law­suit brought against it by five men, as the mat­ter is now be­fore the courts.

Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny has failed in its bid to ex­tract it­self from Work­men’s Com­pen­sa­tion Act claims brought on be­half of two vic­tims of a div­ing tragedy at its Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty in 2022. 

A Venezue­lan man who used the fake name "Roger Alexan­der" to mis­lead in­ves­ti­ga­tors was charged yes­ter­day for the mur­der of Chi­nese na­tion­al Fan­glin Zuo in To­ba­go.

A Tabaquite fam­i­ly is call­ing on the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty to ur­gent­ly re­lo­cate a chick­en farm built di­rect­ly op­po­site their home—an op­er­a­tion they say has left them ill, iso­lat­ed, and liv­ing in “prison-like” con­di­tions for years.

With­in min­utes, a re­lax­ing af­ter­noon turned in­to chaos af­ter a fire rav­aged two homes in Tabaquite, dis­plac­ing five peo­ple, in­clud­ing a prison of­fi­cer and his teenage son.

The Arch­dio­cese of Port of Spain has ac­knowl­edged a Guardian Me­dia re­port re­gard­ing a law­suit filed by five men against St Do­minic’s Chil­dren’s Home and the State.

A dra­mat­ic res­cue un­fold­ed along the North Coast Road in Mara­cas on Wednes­day af­ter­noon af­ter a tree col­lapsed on­to a mov­ing maxi taxi, push­ing it over an em­bank­ment.

A mid-morn­ing fire at the Aranguez North Sec­ondary School trig­gered a swift re­sponse from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice to­day, af­ter smoke was seen com­ing from the in­sti­tu­tion’s IT Lab­o­ra­to­ry.

France has be­stowed the “Knight of the Le­gion of Ho­n­our” the low­est rank in the coun­try’s high­est civil­ian or­der, on Suri­namese med­ical prac­ti­tion­er, Dr. Ruben del Pra­do.