A 49-year-old pri­ma­ry school teacher ac­cused of hav­ing co­caine on the com­pound of a Princes Town school has been or­dered to un­der­go a 14-day psy­chi­atric eval­u­a­tion.

A La Ro­maine con­trac­tor has been cleared of six charges of de­fraud­ing the State of near­ly $600,000.

An uniden­ti­fied man was killed in what po­lice be­lieve was a hit-and-run along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way near Ch­agua­nas on Wednes­day night.

Con­sta­ble Rus­sel Be­dasse has ex­pressed frus­tra­tion over po­lice han­dling of his moth­er’s death, claim­ing she was mur­dered, though homi­cide de­tec­tives have not yet been in­volved.

Teach­ers and par­ents are warn­ing the gov­ern­ment that with­out de­ci­sive bud­getary sup­port, age­ing schools and staff short­ages could fur­ther un­der­mine ed­u­ca­tion na­tion­wide.

Ten­sions be­tween dai­ly-paid work­ers and the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC) eased yes­ter­day, af­ter over­due salaries reached their bank ac­counts. But Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (CG­WU) pres­i­dent Er­mine De Bique-Meade says the union is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing how pay­ments are han­dled in the fu­ture.

S&P Glob­al Rat­ings has re­vised Trinidad and To­ba­go’s eco­nom­ic out­look from sta­ble to neg­a­tive while af­firm­ing its in­vest­ment grade rat­ing at BBB-. The agency warned that per­sis­tent weak­ness­es in pub­lic fi­nances, de­clin­ing en­er­gy pro­duc­tion and ris­ing debt could trig­ger a down­grade with­in the next two years.

An 18-year-old ac­cused of rob­bing a man of his car has been grant­ed $150,000 bail with his fa­ther stand­ing as sure­ty.

A 49-year-old teacher was or­dered to un­der­go a 14-day psy­chi­atric eval­u­a­tion af­ter he was al­leged­ly found with co­caine at St Julien Pres­by­ter­ian School in Princes Town.

An uniden­ti­fied man was killed in what po­lice be­lieve was a hit-and-run along the Solomon Ho­choy High­way near Ch­agua­nas last night.

Speak­ing over video af­ter the Unit­ed States re­voked his visa, the Pales­tin­ian leader told world lead­ers Thurs­day that his peo­ple re­ject the 2023 Hamas at­tack on Is­rael and pledged that the mil­i­tant group would have no role in gov­ern­ing the Gaza Strip af­ter war ends and must hand over its weapons to his ad­min­is­tra­tion. Said Mah­moud Ab­bas to his peo­ple: “The dawn of free­dom will emerge.”

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing acts of van­dal­ism at the Cara­pichaima West Sec­ondary School dur­ing the Re­pub­lic Day hol­i­day on Wednes­day night.