The To­ba­go teenag­er de­tained in con­nec­tion with the death of his el­der­ly rel­a­tive has been re­leased.

North­east­ern Col­lege has record­ed a sec­ond stu­dent fight with­in days of the open­ing of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year, with two boys be­ing tak­en to the prin­ci­pal’s of­fice yes­ter­day, af­ter they were seen fight­ing on the school com­pound.

Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has called on ju­di­cial of­fi­cers and court staff to work hard and less from home to make the Ju­di­cia­ry more ef­fi­cient and pro­duc­tive. 

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les have wel­comed Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh’s plans to im­prove the ad­min­is­tra­tion of jus­tice, with both point­ing to the need to ad­dress re­source con­straints, court de­lays and ac­cess to the ju­di­cial sys­tem.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has de­nied li­a­bil­i­ty in the fa­tal jet ski ac­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point beach, which claimed the life of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie, in­sist­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ty rests “sole­ly and square­ly” on the jet ski op­er­a­tor.

The Gov­ern­ment is giv­ing the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) a fi­nal two-week ex­ten­sion to re­spond to its of­fer to set­tle out­stand­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions for 2014–2016 and 2017–2019, while main­tain­ing that the pro­pos­al it­self will not change.

Mor­vant res­i­dents say while they are not par­tic­u­lar­ly shak­en or fear­ful, they are an­tic­i­pat­ing more vi­o­lence af­ter three men were killed in sep­a­rate in­stances in dif­fer­ent parts of the com­mu­ni­ty on Tues­day.

With schools now re­opened, the TTPS Cy­ber Crime and So­cial Me­dia Unit is urg­ing stu­dents to be cau­tious about what they post on­line to re­duce the risk of be­ing tar­get­ed by pae­dophiles.

Op­po­si­tion Leader and PNM Po­lit­i­cal Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has dis­missed sug­ges­tions that her par­lia­men­tary bench is frac­tured ahead of to­mor­row’s re­sump­tion of Par­lia­ment, de­spite the on­go­ing in­ter­nal dis­pute in­volv­ing San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed be­lieves re­cent moves by San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning could sig­nal an at­tempt to force changes with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), while leav­ing open the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a fu­ture lead­er­ship bid.

Frus­tra­tion spilled in­to the streets yes­ter­day as res­i­dents of Kan­hai Road North, Bar­rack­pore, de­mand­ed ur­gent re­pairs to a road they said had been ne­glect­ed for decades.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne has thrown his sup­port be­hind Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s tough stance on vi­o­lent and dis­rup­tive stu­dents, sug­gest­ing at­ten­tion should in­stead be placed on par­ents who are “rais­ing crim­i­nals” in their homes.