Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has urged teach­ers to send dis­rup­tive stu­dents home and leave par­ents to deal with them, sig­nalling a ze­ro-tol­er­ance ap­proach to in­dis­ci­pline as schools re­open for the 2026/2027 aca­d­e­m­ic year to­day.

an­drea.perez-sobers@guardian.co.tt

US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s move to take con­trol of 65 mil­lion bar­rels of Venezue­lan oil could cre­ate an un­ex­pect­ed open­ing for Trinidad and To­ba­go, par­tic­u­lar­ly for the long-stalled Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

Chinelle Hen­ry pulled off a stun­ning last-ball heist at Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos, pow­er­ing Ja­maica Em­press to a nail-bit­ing one-wick­et vic­to­ry on Sun­day over Guyana Ama­zon War­riors in their Li­ma­col WC­PL de­but.

Years be­fore the term “pow­er cou­ple” be­came a thing, Carl and Car­ol Ja­cobs were al­ready a de­f­i­n­i­tion of the id­iom. The two have rid­den the mu­sic ex­press for over half a cen­tu­ry as a cou­ple, from do­ing back­ground vo­cals to lead vo­cals on lo­cal, re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al stages, with each be­ing able to hold their own in the spot­light.

To­day, al­most 200,000 school chil­dren and their 15,000 teach­ers will be mak­ing their way to schools across the coun­try. The rush-hour traf­fic will al­so have re­turned with them.