Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is tak­ing a ze­ro-tol­er­ance ap­proach to school vi­o­lence, de­clar­ing that stu­dents caught as­sault­ing oth­er stu­dents, teach­ers and prin­ci­pals will be ex­pelled.

Gov­ern­ment is un­der­scor­ing that the pro­tec­tion which will be of­fered to the pub­lic in its pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion does not al­ready ex­ist in this coun­try’s laws.

The Mex­i­can gov­ern­ment has failed in its at­tempt to pur­sue a nov­el US$10 bil­lion against a group of ma­jor Unit­ed States gun man­u­fac­tur­ers, which was sup­port­ed by sev­er­al Cari­com coun­tries in­clud­ing T&T. 

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is in the red and the pre­vi­ous board had been ly­ing to the coun­try about its eco­nom­ic sit­u­a­tion.

The UN Refugee Agency will per­ma­nent­ly close its na­tion­al of­fice in Trinidad and To­ba­go on Au­gust 31 due to glob­al fund­ing short­falls.

Over 360 Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (Cepep) con­tracts were re­newed for a pe­ri­od of three years from April 14-April 24, be­fore the Gen­er­al Elec­tion, al­though there was no Cab­i­net ap­proval for this, claims Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath.

The pro­mot­er of the flopped Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer con­cert says he is now fear­ful for his life.

THA Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris is call­ing on To­bag­o­ni­ans to join him this morn­ing out­side the Di­vi­sion of Health as he de­mands the im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tion of Sec­re­tary of Health Dr Faith Breb­nor.

A month af­ter re­ceiv­ing a bone mar­row trans­plant in Colom­bia, can­cer sur­vivor Chloe Ram­nar­ine is prepar­ing to re­turn to T&T. Her moth­er, Thilly­er Ram­nar­ine, said Chloe is ex­pect­ed to leave Colom­bia at 6 pm to­day.

The T&T Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS) is push­ing back against find­ings in a De­cem­ber mis­sion re­port by the In­ter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Red Cross and Red Cres­cent So­ci­eties (IFRC), say­ing the doc­u­ment lacks con­text and re­lies too heav­i­ly on anec­do­tal claims.

The fam­i­lies of at least two of the four divers, who per­ished in a tragedy at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty in 2022, have brought claims against their for­mer em­ploy­er un­der the Work­men’s Com­pen­sa­tion Act. 

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion’s (TTUTA) To­ba­go of­fi­cer Bran­don Roberts says ed­u­ca­tion promis­es made dur­ing the last elec­tion have dis­ap­peared and teach­ers are in­creas­ing­ly frus­trat­ed.