A man from Mara­bel­la, ac­cused of stab­bing his moth­er’s teenage ten­ant to death when he was 14-years-old, has been re­leased af­ter spend­ing al­most two decades in prison.

For years, heavy rain­fall meant more than can­celled lessons at Debe Hin­du SDMS Pri­ma­ry School. Lo­cat­ed on a riv­er bank, stu­dents were ac­cus­tomed to mud­dy flood­wa­ters in­side their class­room, snakes and cen­tipedes slith­er­ing through the com­pound, and teach­ers, par­ents and vil­lagers rolling up their sleeves to clean be­fore chil­dren could re­turn to learn­ing.

Six blind and vi­su­al­ly im­paired stu­dents have de­fied ex­pec­ta­tions in this year’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA), prompt­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) to call for greater in­vest­ment in in­clu­sive ed­u­ca­tion and high­er ex­pec­ta­tions for chil­dren with dis­abil­i­ties.

CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia, Jul 6 (CMC) – Ja­maica’s Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness says that while his coun­try is not seek­ing to over­turn the de­ci­sion of re­gion­al lead­ers to reap­point Dr Car­la Bar­nett as Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM), it re­mains “con­cerned that the ap­proach tak­en has nei­ther re­solved the mat­ter nor pro­mot­ed the spir­it and goals of the Re­vised Treaty of Ch­aguara­mas”.

Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic’s ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 73-year-old Gre­go­ry Ca­pri­et­ta, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing af­ter last be­ing seen near­ly a week ago.

Po­lice are ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 13-year-old Nata­nia Noth­ing­ham, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

Trinidad and To­ba­go says its ob­jec­tion to the reap­point­ment of Dr Car­la Bar­nett as Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al is “nei­ther per­son­al nor po­lit­i­cal”.

A 39-year-old man has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the fa­tal stab­bing of an­oth­er man dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in Princes Town on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Mon­day took cred­it for get­ting FI­FA to re­view a red card is­sued against the Unit­ed States’ star for­ward Fo­lar­in Ba­lo­gun at the World Cup but said he did not de­mand an out­come.

Po­lice have seized a high-pow­ered firearm and 28 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Mor­vant, as law en­force­ment con­tin­ues ef­forts to dis­rupt the flow of il­le­gal weapons.

The coun­try's alert sta­tus has been down­grad­ed to GREEN as the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has dis­con­tin­ued its ear­li­er Ad­verse Weath­er Alert-Yel­low Lev­el.

Of­fi­cers of the Ari­ma Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice ar­rest­ed a man for al­leged­ly pos­sess­ing MD­MA and res­cued a kid­nap­ping vic­tim dur­ing sep­a­rate op­er­a­tions on Sat­ur­day.