Sig­nal Hill Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School is cel­e­brat­ing af­ter it was re­vealed that the top stu­dent in To­ba­go in the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) at­tend­ed the school.

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).

Caribbean Air­lines an­nounced yes­ter­day that cus­tomers will soon be able to pay for do­mes­tic flights in Trinidad and To­ba­go dol­lars across all of its dig­i­tal plat­forms, more than a year af­ter calls for greater use of lo­cal cur­ren­cy in­stead of USD.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has warned that po­lice of­fi­cers who en­gage in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty will be re­moved from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, a day af­ter the TTPS an­nounced the re­vo­ca­tion of the ap­point­ments of 17 of­fi­cers.

Iran pre­pared Fri­day for the days-long fu­ner­al of the late Supreme Leader Ay­a­tol­lah Ali Khamenei, with ban­ners across Tehran urg­ing the pub­lic to rise up in sup­port of the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic af­ter the dev­as­tat­ing war that killed the 86-year-old cler­ic.

Speak­ing in a hushed voice, Rosa López re­called how she had to side­step the rows of bod­ies ly­ing un­der a harsh sun as she helped her daugh­ter search for her miss­ing hus­band. Even her years work­ing as a nurse did not pre­pare her for the sight of the dozens of dead wrapped in sheets or blan­kets.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young says the Gov­ern­ment has moved to have his diplo­mat­ic pass­port re­turned, mark­ing what he de­scribes as the lat­est at­tempt to strip him of ben­e­fits af­ford­ed to for­mer prime min­is­ters.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is clean­ing house, start­ing with the fir­ing of 17 po­lice of­fi­cers.

Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young is ques­tion­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­tain at­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen as part of the State’s le­gal team in the high-pro­file mat­ter in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve, ar­gu­ing that the ap­point­ment rais­es con­cerns giv­en that Ramdeen re­mains a de­fen­dant in a civ­il law­suit brought by the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) says it has no fear of any in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fi­nanc­ing of the re­con­struc­tion of its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters, as it dis­missed on­line spec­u­la­tion as po­lit­i­cal in­tim­i­da­tion by the Gov­ern­ment.

For­mer Fi­nance min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an has ques­tioned the phe­nom­e­non of the "One Per cent" term - and whether the so­lu­tion would be "found in the ac­cep­tance of po­lit­i­cal vendet­ta be­com­ing a part of the na­tion­al agen­da, or the im­par­tial use of the state ap­pa­ra­tus be used to ad­ju­di­cate on the con­flict­ing con­tentions in the pub­lic space."

Ten years af­ter the death of for­mer prime min­is­ter and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Patrick Man­ning, Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne says he is con­vinced Man­ning would have been proud of the par­ty in its cur­rent form and would have been work­ing along­side its mem­bers to re­turn it to gov­ern­ment.