One man has died, and three oth­ers are in­jured, fol­low­ing a shoot­ing at In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain on Fri­day night.

Laven­tille West MP Fitzger­ald Hinds says he is mov­ing on af­ter 30 years of rep­re­sen­ta­tive ser­vice and pol­i­tics. He con­firmed his ex­it as an MP yes­ter­day in the Sen­ate, one day af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley re­vealed that Hinds had with­drawn his con­sent to be nom­i­nat­ed to con­test the seat again for the PNM.

No­table im­prove­ments in three key sub­jects were ob­served in stu­dents who scored be­low 50 per cent on the 2022 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment ex­am­i­na­tion.

Hun­dreds of pupils of the Cunu­pia Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School marched along the South­ern Main Road yes­ter­day, unit­ed in con­demn­ing bul­ly­ing and vi­o­lence in all its forms. Clad in blue and white T-shirts with the words, “No Vi­o­lence! No Bul­ly­ing”, the pupils, along with their par­ents and guardians, proud­ly held aloft plac­ards with some that read, “Words hurt, choose them wise­ly” and “Bul­ly­ing is a choice, choose wise­ly.”

Par­ents of stu­dents at­tend­ing Bel­mont Sec­ondary School are ex­press­ing their dis­plea­sure with what they say are de­plorable con­di­tions at the in­sti­tu­tion.

At this time, there is no sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in flu among the pop­u­la­tion—ei­ther adults or chil­dren—that is un­usu­al from any oth­er pre­vi­ous year, says Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh.

The po­lice will now be re­quired to pro­vide more de­tailed in­for­ma­tion on ac­cused per­sons’ crim­i­nal records when they ap­ply for bail.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine re­mains scep­ti­cal about Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s promise to ad­dress in­ef­fi­cien­cies at To­ba­go’s Reg­is­trar Gen­er­al’s Of­fice, say­ing he won’t “keep his fin­gers crossed” about the com­mit­ment made on Thurs­day.

The cur­rent ap­point­ment pro­ce­dure for Se­nior Coun­sel is not un­law­ful or un­con­sti­tu­tion­al. 

Af­ter more than a month of in­dus­tri­al ac­tion and le­gal dis­pute in­volv­ing port work­ers, the Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the union rep­re­sent­ing the work­ers met to dis­cuss the on­go­ing is­sues.

The Fi­nance Min­is­ter an­nounced to the Sen­ate that this coun­try is “well on our way” to be­ing re­moved from all lists of non-co­op­er­a­tive tax ju­ris­dic­tions, in­clud­ing the Eu­ro­pean Union’s black­list.

“I can’t take it no more,” cried 63-year-old Jean Sub­ran while stand­ing in front of the home of her son, Bas­deo “Ricky” Lal­lan, who was shot dead to­geth­er with his com­mon-law wife on Thurs­day night.