Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says the four North East­ern Col­lege (NEC) stu­dents in­volved in a fight that went vi­ral on so­cial me­dia on the open­ing day of the school term re­main sus­pend­ed.

The fa­ther of an al­leged home in­trud­er who was shot and killed by a prison of­fi­cer in Freeport on Thurs­day night has apol­o­gised to the of­fi­cer, say­ing he har­bours no re­sent­ment but can­not un­der­stand how his on­ly son, Javon Hamil­ton, be­came in­volved in a home in­va­sion.

As the Sen­ate re­turns to­day to de­bate an­oth­er bill that could re­sult in a 15-15 dead­lock, for­mer Sen­ate pres­i­dent Tim­o­thy Hamel-Smith has weighed in on the ex­er­cise of a cast­ing vote in the Up­per House.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee has de­scribed the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) as a “big slush fund” un­der the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion, nam­ing sev­er­al com­pa­nies he said re­ceived mil­lions of dol­lars in con­tracts, in­clud­ing one linked to PNM as­sis­tant gen­er­al sec­re­tary and San Fer­nan­do Deputy May­or Pa­tri­cia Alex­is.

A 12-year-old boy and his eight-year-old broth­er have lost their fa­ther, their home and al­most a year of school­ing. Now, their moth­er is plead­ing for help to se­cure a trans­fer so the boys can re­turn to the class­room and re­build their lives.

Al­most half of the waste en­ter­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s land­fills is or­gan­ic ma­te­r­i­al, which pro­duces methane as it de­com­pos­es and can con­tribute to land­fill fires, ac­cord­ing to en­vi­ron­men­tal com­pa­ny Close the Loop Caribbean.

A man­hunt was un­der­way yes­ter­day for a Bar­rack­pore man ac­cused of kid­nap­ping his ex-girl­friend at knife­point in San Juan on Sat­ur­day and rap­ing her twice be­fore re­turn­ing her to the area.

One day af­ter po­lice ap­pealed to the pub­lic for help iden­ti­fy­ing two men in­volved in a vi­o­lent con­fronta­tion in Barataria, one of the sus­pects was iden­ti­fied as a 36-year-old em­ploy­ee of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).

Less than one month af­ter a child sex­u­al of­fences mat­ter was re­port­ed to the Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment (SVD), a cou­ple has been ar­rest­ed, charged and brought be­fore the courts.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is warn­ing stu­dents that they will face the full ex­tent of the law if they par­tic­i­pate in a dan­ger­ous on­line chal­lenge that in­volves sit­ting in the path of on­com­ing ve­hi­cles be­fore run­ning away at the last mo­ment.

Slinger Fran­cis­co, the leg­endary ca­lyp­son­ian known to gen­er­a­tions across the Caribbean and the world as The Mighty Spar­row, died at 91. He died peace­ful­ly in New York yes­ter­day sur­round­ed by loved ones, fol­low­ing a brief ill­ness, ac­cord­ing to a state­ment is­sued by his fam­i­ly.

Trinidad and To­ba­go's ca­lyp­so fra­ter­ni­ty is mourn­ing the loss of one of its most cel­e­brat­ed fig­ures, Slinger Fran­cis­co, the leg­endary per­former known world­wide as the Mighty Spar­row.