The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has re­ceived a pre­lim­i­nary re­port in­to the vi­o­lent in­ci­dent in­volv­ing stu­dents of Ch­agua­nas South Sec­ondary School, in which a stu­dent was beat­en and re­port­ed­ly knocked un­con­scious by a group of boys ear­li­er this week in Ch­agua­nas.

Res­i­dents in Princes Town and en­vi­rons can now breathe a sigh of re­lief with the re­turn of a fire sta­tion pres­ence in the area af­ter a two-year ab­sence.

A wet­ter rainy sea­son no longer guar­an­tees wa­ter se­cu­ri­ty, and a dri­er wet sea­son no longer means com­mu­ni­ties are safe from flood­ing.

Crim­i­nal de­fence at­tor­ney Daniel Khan is call­ing for leg­isla­tive re­form on the de­fence of provo­ca­tion, es­pe­cial­ly in mur­der cas­es aris­ing out of in­ti­mate part­ner vi­o­lence.

The Sen­ate has passed leg­is­la­tion that will ex­pand the State's pow­ers to col­lect DNA sam­ples with­out con­sent from in­di­vid­u­als who pose spe­cif­ic, high-lev­el na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty or counter-ter­ror­ism risks up­on en­ter­ing or re-en­ter­ing the coun­try.

Four peo­ple were ar­rest­ed while two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, and mar­i­jua­na trees were seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise car­ried out in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion on Wednes­day.

Mi­grants con­sid­er­ing il­le­gal en­try in­to the Unit­ed States through mar­itime routes are be­ing warned that crim­i­nal net­works trans­port­ing peo­ple by sea of­ten place lit­tle val­ue on hu­man life, with some smug­glers lock­ing women and chil­dren in­to con­fined spaces or aban­don­ing pas­sen­gers when dan­ger aris­es.

Ja­mal Rogers, a welder/fab­ri­ca­tor of Man­a­ham­bre Branch Road, was shot mul­ti­ple times and died at the Princes Town Health Fa­cil­i­ty.

SAN DIEGO - Caribbean cit­i­zens are be­ing warned about the grow­ing threat posed by fen­tanyl, as Unit­ed States au­thor­i­ties in­crease ef­forts to dis­man­tle hu­man smug­gling and transna­tion­al crim­i­nal net­works op­er­at­ing along the south­ern bor­der.

The Sen­ate and the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives will each have sit­tings to­day - with priv­i­leges mat­ters per­tain­ing to Par­lia­ment’s Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (PAAC) hov­er­ing in the air around both Hous­es.

Four months af­ter Joshua Sama­roo was al­leged­ly killed by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing a dra­mat­ic shootout in St Au­gus­tine, the case took a shock­ing twist yes­ter­day, af­ter di­rec­tions were giv­en for his girl­friend, Ka­ia Sealy, to be charged with manslaugh­ter in his death.

For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is call­ing on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice to jus­ti­fy the de­ci­sion to charge the girl­friend of de­ceased shoot­ing vic­tim Joshua Sama­roo, warn­ing that pub­lic con­fi­dence in law en­force­ment has al­ready been se­vere­ly dam­aged.