Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says stu­dents who are ex­pelled from schools are not sim­ply aban­doned but are in­stead placed in al­ter­na­tive pro­grammes de­signed to ad­dress be­hav­iour­al is­sues while al­low­ing them to con­tin­ue their ed­u­ca­tion.

Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC, has been giv­en just over a month to de­cide whether to con­tin­ue the pros­e­cu­tion of two po­lice of­fi­cers ac­cused of rob­bing a Chi­nese cou­ple more than a decade ago.

The Ac­cred­i­ta­tion Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ACTT) has been or­dered to pay sig­nif­i­cant com­pen­sa­tion to the own­ers of a pri­vate ac­coun­tan­cy school that was forced to close due to what the High Court found were oner­ous and dis­crim­i­na­to­ry ac­cred­i­ta­tion re­quire­ments.

Steel­work­ers gath­ered out­side the closed Arcelor­Mit­tal Point Lisas fa­cil­i­ty on Wednes­day night, hold­ing a can­dle­light vig­il to mark ten years since the shut­down of the steel plant that once stood as a cor­ner­stone of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s heavy in­dus­tri­al sec­tor. The union al­so re­newed calls for jus­tice for the hun­dreds of work­ers dis­placed when the plant closed.

WEST BLOOM­FIELD, Mich. (AP) — A man armed with a ri­fle rammed his ve­hi­cle in­to one of the na­tion’s largest re­form syn­a­gogues in a De­troit sub­urb and was fa­tal­ly shot by se­cu­ri­ty Thurs­day, The As­so­ci­at­ed Press has learned.

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) is urg­ing ear­ly test­ing and lifestyle changes as the re­gion ob­serves World Kid­ney Day to­day. The theme this year is Kid­ney Health for All – Car­ing for Peo­ple, Pro­tect­ing the Plan­et.

For­mer Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris will chal­lenge for­mer To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe for lead­er­ship of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced the West In­dies Women’s squad for the T20 In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against Aus­tralia women’s na­tion­al crick­et team, sched­uled from March 19–23 at Arnos Vale Crick­et Ground in St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

While the State of Emer­gency re­mains in ef­fect, po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of a burnt body in Cou­va on Tues­day morn­ing.

Sev­er­al tourism in­dus­try or­gan­i­sa­tions have joined forces to form a new coali­tion aimed at strength­en­ing ad­vo­ca­cy and im­prov­ing stan­dards across the sec­tor.

Civ­il so­ci­ety groups in the Caribbean are be­ing urged to strength­en their pres­ence in re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al dis­cus­sions on the tran­si­tion away from fos­sil fu­els.

Leatherback tur­tles and all sea tur­tle species in Trinidad and To­ba­go are legal­ly recog­nised as En­vi­ron­men­tal­ly Sen­si­tive Species un­der na­tion­al law, as of­fi­cials re­port de­clines in nest­ing ac­tiv­i­ty at sev­er­al beach­es.