Res­i­dents of a fish­ing com­mu­ni­ty in south Trinidad have con­firmed that a man Venezue­lan au­thor­i­ties claim was part of a group al­leged­ly caught plot­ting to desta­bilise their gov­ern­ment, is in­deed Trinida­di­an. How­ev­er, they are still in dis­be­lief that he could be part of such a plot.

Ten am­bas­sadors ap­point­ed by the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion have re­ceived let­ters from the new Gov­ern­ment re­vok­ing their ap­point­ments, with six al­ready re­turn­ing home and an­oth­er ex­pect­ed last evening.

High Court Judge Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad has is­sued a strong call for pri­ma­ry school grad­u­ates to re­ject and re­port bul­ly­ing as they tran­si­tion in­to sec­ondary school, echo­ing re­cent na­tion­al con­cerns over vi­o­lence and in­tim­i­da­tion in schools.

While South Trinidad has so far avoid­ed ma­jor flood­ing de­spite per­sis­tent heavy show­ers yes­ter­day, lo­cal gov­ern­ment au­thor­i­ties re­main on high alert as more rain­fall is ex­pect­ed.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says it con­tin­ues to mon­i­tor weath­er con­di­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go, with a fo­cus on man­ag­ing risks to school op­er­a­tions due to po­ten­tial flood­ing.

The moth­er of a Holy Faith Con­vent stu­dent who was sav­age­ly beat­en out­side the school gates on Tues­day is call­ing for the as­sailants to face the full brunt of the law.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has urged T&TEC work­ers to “hold strain,” af­ter they staged a protest yes­ter­day de­mand­ing the res­ig­na­tion of the com­pa­ny’s board of di­rec­tors.

There is no threat of oil con­t­a­m­i­na­tion in Ch­aguara­mas from the car­go ves­sel Hein, which is still par­tial­ly sub­merged af­ter it ran aground on the south­ern side of Monos Is­land.

A mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer has won his ap­peal over the de­ci­sion of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er to refuse him a per­son­al firearm user’s li­cence (FUL).

A so­cial me­dia ac­tivist has been giv­en the green light to sue the Of­fice of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er over its fail­ure to re­spond to a re­quest for dis­clo­sure of in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to a British law firm that was re­tained by the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gov­ern­ment to as­sist in probes in­to al­leged cor­rup­tion in their pre­de­ces­sors’ tenure. 

As the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) pre­pares for To­ba­go’s bud­get day on June 23, its Sec­re­tary of Fi­nance, Trade and the Econ­o­my has re­vealed a sig­nif­i­cant shift and new ap­proach in how the fis­cal pri­or­i­ties and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties will be pre­sent­ed.

Of­fi­cials are cur­rent­ly search­ing for two teenage wards of the St Jude’s Home for Girls, Diego Mar­tin, who re­port­ed­ly ran away from their care­givers dur­ing sep­a­rate out­ings ear­li­er this week.