An al­leged sex­u­al as­sault at­tempt at San­ta Rosa Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School has left staff and stu­dents trau­ma­tised, af­ter an in­trud­er gained ac­cess to the premis­es on June 2nd. The preda­tor re­port­ed­ly locked him­self in a store­room with sev­er­al fe­male pupils and tried to mo­lest them.

Two cousins were in­jured in a shoot­ing on Mon­day night, while lim­ing at the home of a known “com­mu­ni­ty leader” in Glen­coe.

Five stu­dents in­volved in the bru­tal as­sault on a Holy Faith Con­vent stu­dent in front of the school gates in Cou­va on June 10 have been sus­pend­ed.

Af­ter wait­ing sev­en months for DNA con­fir­ma­tion that the de­cap­i­tat­ed body found in Siparia was that of Jamie Mo­hammed, a rel­a­tive is now urg­ing au­thor­i­ties to speed up the process in sim­i­lar cas­es.

A 69-year-old man has lost his bid to be legal­ly recog­nised as hav­ing been in a co­hab­i­ta­tion re­la­tion­ship with an 83-year-old woman suf­fer­ing from de­men­tia.

De­spite the coun­try’s fi­nan­cial con­straints, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlat has con­firmed that 18,000 lap­tops will be dis­trib­uted to all Form One stu­dents, re­gard­less of their par­ents’ in­come lev­el.

Re­call­ing her child­hood trau­ma of be­ing bul­lied for be­ing over­weight in school, for­mer jour­nal­ist and Head of Mar­ket­ing at the Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion Hema Ramkissoon has urged stu­dents to be kind to each oth­er and to seek help if they are be­ing bul­lied.

Po­lice are search­ing for an as­sailant who shot a 30-year-old man as he re­turned to his South Oropouche home on Mon­day night.

A trag­ic ac­ci­dent at Gulf City Mall has claimed the life of a man who was try­ing to help a woman park her car.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has con­firmed that the Po­lice Ser­vice is in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports of an in­ci­dent on the com­pound of the San­ta Rosa Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, in­volv­ing an in­trud­er who al­leged­ly at­tempt­ed to sex­u­al­ly as­sault sev­er­al stu­dents, on June 10, 2025.

Rel­a­tives of Jamie Mo­hammed have fi­nal­ly re­ceived DNA con­fir­ma­tion that the de­cap­i­tat­ed body found in Siparia is hers.

A re­quest for wit­ness pro­tec­tion for the fam­i­ly of the stu­dent who was bru­tal­ly at­tacked and se­vere­ly in­jured at the South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School ear­li­er this month, has been de­nied.