As the Ju­ly/Au­gust va­ca­tion re­pair pro­gramme got un­der­way yes­ter­day, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath as­sured that the Gov­ern­ment in­tends to have all schools open on time for the new aca­d­e­m­ic year.

The Gov­ern­ment has be­gun a se­ries of pub­lic con­sul­ta­tions on pro­posed Stand Your Ground leg­is­la­tion.

The T&T Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to al­lo­cate a per­cent­age of the 20,000 hous­ing units it plans to build to peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has de­scribed the pub­lic nar­ra­tive around a Pun­ish­er patch on his arm as trou­bling and dis­tract­ing.

A farmer has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in a le­gal bat­tle with the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) and his step­moth­er over a 25-acre par­cel of land in Mau­si­ca, D’Abadie. 

A Venezue­lan woman has been ar­rest­ed for al­leged­ly stab­bing a 65-year-old res­i­dent at Ica­cos Vil­lage in Ce­dros with a bro­ken bot­tle over the week­end.

Char­lene Stu­art, for­mer CNC3 and TV6 re­porter and a qui­et voice for men­tal health aware­ness in Caribbean me­dia cir­cles, died on Sun­day.

The Elec­tion Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee (EMC) of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has an­nounced that nom­i­na­tion day for the par­ty’s Au­gust 17 lead­er­ship elec­tion is Ju­ly 27.

Kid­nap vic­tim Jankie Satie Karim has been found alive. Po­lice say she was found in a forest­ed area ear­li­er this evening.

Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie has ap­point­ed a new three-mem­ber Re­view Tri­bunal to as­sess de­ten­tion or­ders is­sued un­der the cur­rent State of Emer­gency.

TSTT Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Kent West­ern has stepped down, with As­sis­tant Vice Pres­i­dent of Emerg­ing Ser­vices and In­no­va­tion Keino Cox named Act­ing CEO, ef­fec­tive im­me­di­ate­ly.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and the Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion have re­sumed high-lev­el talks aimed at tack­ling long-stand­ing is­sues af­fect­ing fire­fight­ers across the coun­try.