Near­ly $677 mil­lion has been spent on in­com­plete school projects across T&T, with sev­er­al sites aban­doned, over­grown and, in one case, non-ex­is­tent, ac­cord­ing to the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s 2025 re­port.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has raised con­cerns about the grow­ing pres­sures fac­ing stu­dents, say­ing this has prompt­ed the min­istry to move ahead with a re­vamp of its Stu­dent Sup­port Ser­vices Di­vi­sion (SSSD) to pro­vide greater as­sis­tance.

Fam­i­ly and friends will gath­er this week­end to cel­e­brate the life of J’lay­na Arm­strong, the eight-year-old girl who was among four peo­ple killed in a shoot­ing along La­dy Young Road in Mor­vant on the night of April 20.

Three men ap­peared be­fore the San Fer­nan­do High Court joint­ly charged with home in­va­sion and ma­li­cious dam­age aris­ing out of an in­ci­dent ear­li­er this month.

A High Court judge has or­dered the State to re­turn a busi­ness­man’s li­cenced firearm and am­mu­ni­tion and pay com­pen­sa­tion, more than a decade af­ter they were ac­ci­den­tal­ly left at a restau­rant and tak­en in­to po­lice cus­tody with­out ex­pla­na­tion.

The Court of Ap­peal has dis­missed an ap­peal by Con­stru­to­ra OAS and up­held a High Court rul­ing that nul­li­fied its $850 mil­lion ar­bi­tra­tion award aris­ing out of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way ex­ten­sion project.

Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor David Nakhid is call­ing on com­mer­cial banks to strength­en cus­tomer se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures fol­low­ing a re­port­ed in­ci­dent in which he be­lieves he was fol­lowed from a fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion be­fore his ve­hi­cle was bro­ken in­to in Cas­cade.

A com­pre­hen­sive re­view of se­cu­ri­ty sys­tems, su­per­vi­sion and ar­moury man­age­ment is to be un­der­tak­en across all mu­nic­i­pal po­lice di­vi­sions as au­thor­i­ties move to tight­en in­ter­nal con­trols fol­low­ing the killing of Cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor An­tho­ny Vieira is call­ing for a na­tion­al col­lo­qui­um on the fu­ture of Car­ni­val, ar­gu­ing that key is­sues such as venue lim­i­ta­tions, con­ges­tion, ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty and the role of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) re­quire ur­gent, co­or­di­nat­ed dis­cus­sion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana have joined with the Unit­ed States and three oth­er coun­tries in sup­port of Pana­ma’s sov­er­eign­ty, amid con­cerns over what has been de­scribed as tar­get­ed eco­nom­ic pres­sure linked to Chi­na.

De­spite the pos­si­bil­i­ty of in­creased de­mand for flights in­to the re­gion, Caribbean Tourism Or­ga­ni­za­tion chair­man Ian Good­hill-Edghill is warn­ing that the cur­rent spike in jet fu­el prices could se­ri­ous­ly im­pact tourism. Jet fu­el prices across the globe have surged due to the US/Is­rael-Iran con­flict, dou­bling air­lines’ fu­el bills and forc­ing them to in­crease tick­et prices, cut routes and ca­pac­i­ty, and in­tro­duce fu­el sur­charges in some in­stances.

Three men ap­peared be­fore a San Fer­nan­do High Court Mas­ter joint­ly charged with two of­fences aris­ing out of an in­ci­dent on April 20.