Ari­ma Boys’ Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School has emerged as the May cham­pi­ons of the Flow and Pen­na­cool.com In­ter School Cham­pi­onship, fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the an­nu­al road­show tour and prize giv­ing cer­e­mo­ny.

Two peo­ple were killed in sep­a­rate road traf­fic ac­ci­dents be­tween Fri­day night and Sat­ur­day morn­ing, with the lat­est fa­tal­i­ty oc­cur­ring near the San­ta Philli­pa Bridge along the Ca­paro Val­ley Bras­so Road.

A pris­on­er fac­ing charges of mur­der, at­tempt­ed mur­der and wound­ing with in­tent es­caped from the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty on Fri­day evening, prompt­ing a mul­ti-agency man­hunt.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a sus­pect and seized a mag­a­zine is­sued to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, as well as $19,000 in cash be­lieved to have been stolen from a ve­hi­cle in Mara­bel­la on Fri­day.

The 250th an­niver­sary of Amer­i­can in­de­pen­dence is col­lid­ing with a coun­try gripped by po­lit­i­cal po­lar­iza­tion and a heat wave bear­ing down on mil­lions of peo­ple across mul­ti­ple states as cel­e­bra­tions get un­der­way across the Unit­ed States on Sat­ur­day.

The Gov­ern­ment has an­nounced a sweep­ing re­view of diplo­mat­ic pass­ports and is set to claim one be­long­ing to an­oth­er for­mer prime min­is­ter.

Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Nicholas Mor­ris has dis­missed as “fake,” screen­shots cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia which pur­port to show mes­sages call­ing on Gov­ern­ment com­mu­ni­ca­tions per­son­nel to co­or­di­nate on­line at­tacks against the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John says the Gov­ern­ment’s Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print plan is on stream, with con­tracts ex­pect­ed to be award­ed soon and the gen­er­a­tion of an es­ti­mat­ed 72,000 jobs from the ac­tiv­i­ty.

The sus­pen­sion of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) pro­gramme has sparked con­cern among ed­u­ca­tors and youth ad­vo­cates, who warn that in­ter­rupt­ing the ini­tia­tive could leave vul­ner­a­ble young men with­out one of the coun­try’s most sig­nif­i­cant in­ter­ven­tions against crime and so­cial ex­clu­sion.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve are claim­ing that their clients are be­ing tar­get­ed by the Gov­ern­ment, based on their eth­nic­i­ty and an on­go­ing le­gal dis­pute over the ter­mi­na­tion of leas­es for State land.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says of­fi­cers are en­trust­ed with ex­tra­or­di­nary pow­ers and have a du­ty to up­hold in­tegri­ty, dis­ci­pline and ser­vice to the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad is urg­ing grad­u­ates of Cedar Grove Pri­vate School to mea­sure suc­cess not by per­son­al achieve­ment alone but by the strength of their char­ac­ter and com­mit­ment to serv­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go.