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.

Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion III Homi­cide Bu­reau con­firmed they have con­sult­ed the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) in re­la­tion to the shoot­ing death of 65-year-old Ch­agua­nas grand­moth­er Su­san Medra­no St Louis but said they have re­ceived no in­struc­tions to lay charges as of Mon­day morn­ing.

Hur­ri­cane Erin be­gan pelt­ing part of the Caribbean with rain and wind Mon­day be­fore it’s ex­pect­ed to churn up dan­ger­ous surf and rip cur­rents along the U.S. East Coast this week.

Even though the In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade and fire­works show have been halt­ed or sub­dued, Pan on the Ave, the an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tion of Steel­pan on Ari­api­ta Ave, will go on as planned.

The leader of one of the most no­to­ri­ous gangs in Haiti, Jim­my Chérizier, says he is pre­pared to co­op­er­ate with the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion (FBI) even af­ter Amer­i­can law of­fi­cials de­scribed him as a for­eign ter­ror­ist in May this year.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers say the ar­rest of sev­er­al Trinida­di­an men and a Venezue­lan na­tion­al at sea, who were al­leged­ly on their way to col­lect a ship­ment of guns and il­le­gal drugs bound for this coun­try, is be­ing viewed as a ma­jor break­through in the fight against crime.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar (Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil chair­man) to name the at­tor­ney with “close ties to the UNC Gov­ern­ment” who is de­mand­ing cer­tain ques­tion­able hir­ings—so much so that it has re­sult­ed in re­port­ed death threats against De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge.