Gov­ern­ment may soon look at re­turn­ing crim­i­nal mat­ters to the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates’ Court, to al­le­vi­ate some of the pres­sure be­ing put on po­lice sta­tions now be­ing used as vir­tu­al courts.

As the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois nears com­ple­tion, con­sul­tant in­tensivist Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon says it is not al­ways pos­si­ble to know for sure how a per­son may re­act when a drug is be­ing ad­min­is­tered.

Two days af­ter a moth­er re­port­ed­ly wait­ed for hours for an am­bu­lance that re­port­ed­ly nev­er ar­rived, af­ter giv­ing birth at an events cen­tre, Min­is­ter of Health Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says he has re­quest­ed a full re­port on the mat­ter.

Two of this coun­try’s main avi­a­tion unions have re­quest­ed ur­gent talks with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, af­ter she de­clared that Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed (CAL) has two years to ad­dress its fi­nan­cial is­sues or face po­ten­tial job loss­es.

The Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) has not is­sued any in­struc­tions to lay charges against any­one re­gard­ing the shoot­ing of a 65-year-old Ch­agua­nas grand­moth­er Su­san Medra­no St Louis.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Phillip Alexan­der, says the Gov­ern­ment in­tends to in­crease the num­ber of life­guards and ex­pand the beach­es they man across the coun­try.

CSEC and CAPE 2025 re­sults are in! And while the over­all per­for­mance has im­proved, TTUTA pres­i­dent Mar­tin Lum Kin ad­mits that Math­e­mat­ics re­mains the biggest hur­dle.

Twelve Venezue­lans who are in this coun­try il­le­gal­ly are ex­pect­ed to be charged with sev­er­al of­fences.

A 42-year-old se­cu­ri­ty guard is in sta­ble con­di­tion at the hos­pi­tal af­ter a gun­man en­tered his Pe­nal home and shot him sev­er­al times.

The Wood­brook Fel­low­ship Friend­ly So­ci­ety has recog­nised the aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment of one of its youngest mem­bers, Zari­ah Gor­mandy, who se­cured a place at Holy Name Con­vent, Port of Spain, af­ter suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ing the 2025 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tion.

Cab­i­net min­is­ters have ex­pressed con­cern over threats made against De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, as se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies con­tin­ue to in­ves­ti­gate a re­port­ed as­sas­si­na­tion plot.

CAF – De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean to­day ap­proved a grant of BBD 450,000 (USD 225,000) to sup­port Bar­ba­dos’ host­ing of CAR­IFES­TA XV.