When Debe High School first opened its doors 25 years ago in the rolling cane­fields of Debe, along the new­ly paved M2 Ring Road built un­der for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day, it marked the be­gin­ning of a qui­et but pow­er­ful ed­u­ca­tion­al rev­o­lu­tion.

The an­nu­al Tu­na­puna Day mil­i­tary pa­rade con­tin­ued with­out any for­ma­tion from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice yes­ter­day. How­ev­er, chair­man of the Tu­na­puna-Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, Josi­ah Austin, said he was nonethe­less grate­ful for the sup­port of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro in fa­cil­i­tat­ing the cel­e­bra­tions.

The Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal is set to re­ceive its first in­take of young pa­tients in the com­ing weeks. This was an­nounced by Cou­va South MP Bar­ry Padarath as he de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress at Bach­he Kaand 2025 – The Chil­dren’s Chap­ter. The event was held on Sat­ur­day at the ISHA Ashram, Isha Heights, Sew­dass Road, Freeport.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says he has pro­posed the in­tro­duc­tion of a po­lice cadet pro­gramme in sec­ondary schools, which he hopes will ad­dress school in­dis­ci­pline while pro­vid­ing a pos­i­tive out­let for young peo­ple.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic, road­side ven­dors, and busi­ness own­ers wel­comed a po­lice walk­a­bout in San Juan on Fri­day, but many ex­pressed scep­ti­cism that in­creased vis­i­bil­i­ty alone would curb the cur­rent crime surge.

Jus­tice Rol­ston Nel­son, SC, a re­tired judge of the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ), has is­sued a call for re­form in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s le­gal pro­fes­sion, urg­ing at­tor­neys to re­store ci­vil­i­ty and adopt manda­to­ry con­tin­u­ous le­gal ed­u­ca­tion to ad­dress de­clin­ing stan­dards.

More than 1,000 peo­ple have al­ready ex­pressed in­ter­est in plant­i­ng the trop­i­cal ap­ple va­ri­ety de­vel­oped by the late Kenyan in­no­va­tor HP Wambugu—an idea that once seemed im­pos­si­ble for this re­gion.

The Na­tion­al 4-H Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go is pro­mot­ing root crop pro­duc­tion in schools as part of ef­forts to help re­duce the na­tion’s heavy food im­port bill.

Three Erin fish­er­men, in­clud­ing Daniel Abra­ham, who were kid­napped in Venezuela late Thurs­day, have been re­leased, but four oth­er men have now been ab­duct­ed and their cap­tors are de­mand­ing a US$20,000 ran­som for their safe re­turn.

The an­nu­al Tu­na­puna Day mil­i­tary pa­rade went ahead on Sun­day with­out a for­ma­tion from the TTPS, but Tu­na­puna-Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Josi­ah Austin said he was grate­ful for Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro’s sup­port in fa­cil­i­tat­ing the cel­e­bra­tions.

A Ch­agua­nas man caught dump­ing rub­bish on the road­side has apol­o­gised to res­i­dents and pledged nev­er to re­peat the of­fence.

Four peo­ple were in­jured in two sep­a­rate shoot­ings over the week­end in the south and south­west­ern dis­tricts.