Po­lice are putting a greater em­pha­sis on so­cial in­ter­ven­tion and tack­ling the root caus­es of stu­dent vi­o­lence, as new po­lice da­ta shows re­port­ed fights in­volv­ing school­child­ren have in­creased from 27 in 2025 to at least 36 so far this year.

Af­ter spend­ing on­ly one day at school, four boys will spend the next sev­en days away from class af­ter be­ing sus­pend­ed fol­low­ing their in­volve­ment in a fight on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion may have re­opened all 777 Gov­ern­ment and Gov­ern­ment-as­sist­ed schools on Mon­day, but Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) pres­i­dent Crys­tal Ashe has rat­ed the start of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year be­tween six and sev­en out of ten.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dou­bled down on her call for vi­o­lent and per­sis­tent­ly dis­rup­tive stu­dents to be re­moved from schools, chal­leng­ing those op­posed to her stance to take them in­to their own homes and deal with them.

The rel­a­tive of a To­ba­go school­boy de­tained in con­nec­tion with the death of an el­der­ly fam­i­ly mem­ber is in­sist­ing that he is not an ag­gres­sive per­son.

Two prison of­fi­cers are ac­cused of help­ing to run an or­gan­ised net­work smug­gling cig­a­rettes, mar­i­jua­na and oth­er pro­hib­it­ed items in­to Gold­en Grove Prison, ac­cord­ing to Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders is­sued un­der the State of Emer­gency.

Smoke em­a­nat­ing from the Air Traf­fic Con­trol (ATC) tow­er at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go caused de­lays to at least two do­mes­tic flights yes­ter­day, af­ter staff at the fa­cil­i­ty were evac­u­at­ed and the air­port’s fire-sup­pres­sion sys­tems were ac­ti­vat­ed.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has launched the Re­silient Youth cam­paign aimed at giv­ing young peo­ple greater ac­cess to sup­port, men­tor­ship and in­ter­ven­tions to help them deal with chal­lenges with­out turn­ing to crime.

A spe­cial sit­ting of the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion came to an abrupt end yes­ter­day af­ter Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) mem­bers, along with two for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­bers who have since crossed the floor, walked out fol­low­ing heat­ed clash­es.

Ja­maican-born British at­tor­ney Vin­cent Nel­son will have to wait up to half a year to learn the fate of his law­suit al­leg­ing breach­es of an in­dem­ni­ty agree­ment he en­tered in­to to im­pli­cate for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, and at­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen in an al­leged le­gal fee kick­back scheme.

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning has apol­o­gised and dis­tanced him­self from cer­tain re­spons­es that ap­peared on his Face­book page re­gard­ing re­cent is­sues that have been sim­mer­ing with­in the PNM.

An Ari­ma busi­ness­man who was award­ed $90,000 af­ter a High Court judge found that he was as­sault­ed by a po­lice of­fi­cer three years ago is call­ing for bet­ter train­ing with­in the Po­lice Ser­vice.