A 500-page UN­ESCO 2026 re­port says Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) con­tin­ues to de­ter­mine chil­dren’s fu­tures too ear­ly, sort­ing them by class and leav­ing poor­er stu­dents to bear the great­est dis­ad­van­tage.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says this year’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) re­sults show “sig­nif­i­cant im­prove­ment”.

Fol­low­ing the shake-up at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), where ten se­nior of­fi­cials were sent home, at least two man­agers at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) have now been dis­missed.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to re­verse its de­ci­sion to sus­pend the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) Pro­gramme, de­scrib­ing the move as an­oth­er ma­jor set­back for youth de­vel­op­ment and crime pre­ven­tion and ques­tion­ing whether the coun­try can af­ford to lose one of its longest-run­ning so­cial in­ter­ven­tion ini­tia­tives.

A Trinida­di­an man has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of a woman in Mt St George, To­ba­go, hours af­ter her body was dis­cov­ered at her home to­day.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne says City Cor­po­ra­tion work­ers will fi­nal­ly re­ceive their June salaries af­ter the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment re­leased the funds.

An­dropause re­mains a lit­tle-dis­cussed stage of men’s health de­spite its po­ten­tial im­pact on phys­i­cal health, emo­tion­al well-be­ing, re­la­tion­ships and over­all qual­i­ty of life, ac­cord­ing to Dr Shenelle Ash­ton of the Fam­i­ly Plan­ning As­so­ci­a­tion.

Po­lice said that around 7.30pm, the vic­tim was stand­ing on the road in front of his home along Na­pari­ma Ma­yaro Road in Iere Vil­lage when a black car stopped near­by.

A tele­vi­sion sta­tion has been or­dered to pay over $350,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a cus­toms of­fi­cer it ac­cused of be­ing a ter­ror­ist linked to the Is­lam­ic State (ISIS).

A 38-year-old Ari­ma man has ap­peared be­fore the High Court charged with the mur­der of Wil­fred Robert Madoo, known as “Boyo”, fol­low­ing a fa­tal stab­bing in­ci­dent in Ari­ma last month.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed six peo­ple in two sep­a­rate op­er­a­tions this week, in­clud­ing three sus­pects linked to a vi­o­lent rob­bery and in­de­cent as­sault in Lopinot and three oth­ers dur­ing a joint ex­er­cise in Port-of-Spain.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says in­ten­si­fied an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions un­der the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions have led to mul­ti­ple ar­rests and the seizure of sig­nif­i­cant quan­ti­ties of cannabis in co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cis­es across east­ern and north­ern Trinidad.