Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath yes­ter­day di­rect­ed the clo­sure of the school, hours af­ter par­ents of Rousil­lac Hin­du School protest­ed over a rat in­fes­ta­tion.

For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs min­is­ter Sean Sobers says his min­istry has sub­mit­ted doc­u­ments to the Unit­ed King­dom in a con­tin­ued at­tempt to re­verse the cur­rent visa re­quire­ment for T&T na­tion­als. Speak­ing with re­porters out­side Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, Sobers said, “Es­sen­tial­ly, we have trashed out cer­tain things, cer­tain asks that they had of us as a coun­try… We’ve sent the rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion to them, and we are wait­ing on a re­sponse from them as it per­tains to that in­for­ma­tion that we’ve sent on to them”.

Caribbean Drag­ons will host its flag­ship event, IG­NITE 2025, from Oc­to­ber 12 to 15 with the sum­mit fo­cus­ing on en­tre­pre­neur­ship, in­vest­ment, and re­gion­al growth.

The Pri­vate Sec­tor Com­mis­sion and the George­town Cham­ber of Com­merce and In­dus­try have both wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s “Project Res­cue George­town”, which aims to clean up, beau­ti­fy and re­turn George­town to its past glo­ry of be­ing a Gar­den City.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries has ad­vised that the sale of State Game Li­cences will be­gin on Sep­tem­ber 22, 2025.

Up­per Rich Plain Road, Diego Mar­tin, res­i­dent Brew­ster Rogers said he want­ed to wait his turn for as­sis­tance from the au­thor­i­ties in­stead of com­plain­ing. How­ev­er, he fears that the next heavy rain­fall could cause his home to come crash­ing down.

Es­to­nia sum­moned a Russ­ian diplo­mat to protest af­ter three Russ­ian fight­er air­craft en­tered its air­space with­out per­mis­sion Fri­day and stayed there for 12 min­utes, the For­eign Min­istry said, just over a week af­ter NA­TO planes downed Russ­ian drones over Poland and height­ened fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over.

For­mer trav­el agent Vicky Boodram has been freed of over 100 fraud charges re­lat­ed to a cruise that did not ma­te­ri­alise.

On Venezuela’s Paria Penin­su­la, an idyl­lic stretch of Caribbean coast, it is an open se­cret that boats de­part­ing from its ports trans­port both drugs and fish.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly on Fri­day vot­ed to al­low Pales­tin­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Ab­bas to ad­dress its an­nu­al meet­ing of world lead­ers by video af­ter the Unit­ed States re­voked his visa last month. The mo­tion passed by a vote of 145-5, with six ab­sten­tions.

Doc­tor Dorothy Williams-Chan­dler, who was shot last month, died on Thurs­day night at the Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

The Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture has con­firmed the oc­cur­rence of a land­slip along Fort George Road, St. James, near The Bat­tery. A sec­tion of the road­way has been af­fect­ed, and mo­torists and com­muters have been asked to ex­er­cise cau­tion when us­ing the route.