A 38-year-old man from Cara­po has been freed of mur­der­ing an Arou­ca busi­ness­man with­out hav­ing to go on tri­al.

A High Court Judge has sought to re­solve a le­gal dis­pute be­tween the Trinidad Ri­fle As­so­ci­a­tion and the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) over con­trol of a par­cel of land in Tuck­er Val­ley on which the for­mer’s shoot­ing range op­er­ates.

A Cunu­pia teenag­er, who ac­com­pa­nied two friends to Mara­cas Beach for an un­planned sea bath, trag­i­cal­ly drowned ten min­utes af­ter en­ter­ing the wa­ter.

The Laven­tille Out­reach for Ver­ti­cal En­rich­ment (LOVE) move­ment, a mem­ber of the UNC’s Coali­tion of In­ter­ests, says it did not get a sub­stan­tive po­si­tion with the Gov­ern­ment be­cause the Prime Min­is­ter said it did not ask for one in a time­ly man­ner.

A Ma­yaro farmer re­mained hos­pi­talised in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion yes­ter­day, af­ter be­ing shot by gun­men while on the way to his farm in To­co on Wednes­day.

Mo­torists us­ing the Ca­paro Val­ley Bras­so Road have been as­sured that long-over­due re­pairs to the dam­aged road­way near the WASA pump­ing sta­tion at Ca­paro will soon be car­ried out.

Scores of res­i­dents and farm­ers in Begesse Street, off River­side Road, Rio Claro, are ur­gent­ly call­ing on the au­thor­i­ties to re­pair a land­slip that is threat­en­ing to cut them off com­plete­ly.

Three days af­ter a 17-year-old South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School (SE­PoSS) stu­dent was bru­tal­ly at­tacked in a bath­room by class­mates and se­vere­ly in­jured, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath and Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der yes­ter­day vis­it­ed the school in a bid to re­as­sure its ad­min­is­tra­tion of their sup­port.

Vet­er­an pro­mot­er Randy Glas­gow has once again weighed in on the de­bate over the fi­nan­cial sus­tain­abil­i­ty and cul­tur­al rel­e­vance of ma­jor for­eign-head­lined events in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has launched a com­pre­hen­sive and ur­gent re­view of both the Na­tion­al School Code of Con­duct and the Na­tion­al School Dis­ci­pline Ma­trix, in di­rect re­sponse to the es­ca­lat­ing lev­els of stu­dent in­dis­ci­pline in schools across the coun­try.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ma­yaro, Nicholas Mor­ris, has as­sured farm­ers, res­i­dents, and dai­ly com­muters along Begesse Trace and River­side Road that the Gov­ern­ment re­mains com­mit­ted to ful­ly re­ha­bil­i­tat­ing the Poole Vil­lage land­slip.

Con­struc­tion of the new $US400 mil­lion Unit­ed States em­bassy in Mar­aval has be­gun and em­bassy of­fi­cials have ad­vised that near­by res­i­dents may ex­pe­ri­ence noise and traf­fic dis­rup­tions as a re­sult in the com­ing months.