Pro­fes­sor Sel­wyn Cud­joe has been ap­point­ed chair­man of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go board.

A 45-year-old woman who was ac­cused of at­tempt­ing to mur­der a 13-year-old boy by poi­son­ing him walked free yes­ter­day af­ter the pros­e­cu­tion dis­con­tin­ued the mat­ter against her.

ACP North East Curt Si­mon says a de­crease in the num­ber of peo­ple be­ing charged with gang of­fences does not re­flect a fail­ure on the part of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to dis­man­tle gangs.

“Look how long and is noth­ing. They don’t care. I can’t get over that, be­cause I don’t know what’s go­ing on,” sobbed Pa­tri­cia Phillip, moth­er of rig work­er Pe­te Phillip, who fell over­board af­ter the rig he was work­ing on col­lapsed off Point Fortin eight months ago.

De­spite fac­ing an “ob­sta­cle” in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the con­duct of DCP In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions Suzette Mar­tin, in­ves­ti­ga­tor ACP Curt Si­mon says the en­quiry is still un­der­way.

For­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter and PNM chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les says he doesn’t be­lieve that se­cu­ri­ty con­sid­er­a­tions due to the State of Emer­gency (SoE) were the rea­son be­hind the can­cel­la­tion of this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day mil­i­tary pa­rade and is urg­ing the gov­ern­ment to come for­ward and ex­plain its rea­son­ing.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) has strong­ly con­demned a re­cent state­ment by the Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) crit­i­cis­ing al­leged in­ef­fi­cien­cies and de­lays at the ports of Port of Spain and Point Lisas.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has re­port­ed strong re­sults for the 2025 Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) and steady im­prove­ment in the Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) ex­am­i­na­tions, with no­table gains in Eng­lish and con­tin­ued fo­cus on Math­e­mat­ics out­comes.

Re­pub­lic Bank has an­nounced that, ef­fec­tive Au­gust 21, 2025, a new max­i­mum spend­ing lim­it of US$2,500 per billing cy­cle will ap­ply to all for­eign trans­ac­tions on its cred­it cards.

A 39-year-old Diego Mar­tin busi­ness­man is in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing the seizure of co­caine and cannabis val­ued at more than TT$20.8 mil­lion dur­ing a tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion in the West­ern Di­vi­sion on Thurs­day night.

Cit­ing se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency, the Gov­ern­ment has an­nounced that this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade, fire­works and of­fi­cial func­tions will be re­placed with a Na­tion­al Day of Prayer and Re­flec­tion on Au­gust 31.

ACP North East Curt Si­mon says a de­crease in the num­ber of per­sons be­ing charged with gang of­fences does not re­flect a fail­ure on the part of the po­lice to dis­man­tle gangs.