Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says the launch of the Min­istry’s Form One dig­i­tal AI text­books will ease the fi­nan­cial bur­den on par­ents, re­duc­ing the need for cost­ly text­books.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion has called for re­spect and uni­ty fol­low­ing a com­ment made by Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Anil Roberts, out­side Par­lia­ment to­day.

Weeks af­ter two San­ta Flo­ra fish­er­men and the ves­sel they were aboard dis­ap­peared at sea with­out a trace, a US$5,000 re­ward is be­ing of­fered for in­for­ma­tion lead­ing to their re­cov­ery.

A video of the in­ci­dent post­ed on so­cial me­dia showed the of­fi­cer pulling a woman’s hair and strik­ing her at least nine times across her face and head as they walked to the side of a house.

A 77-year-old pen­sion­er died af­ter a wood­en struc­ture col­lapsed on him at his Pe­nal home on Mon­day.

The Em­bassy of the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela in Trinidad and To­ba­go has an­nounced the open­ing of reg­is­tra­tion for ad­vanced-lev­el Span­ish lan­guage cours­es, as the Venezue­lan In­sti­tute for Cul­ture and Co­op­er­a­tion (IVCC) cel­e­brates 63 years of ser­vice in the coun­try.

The Na­tion­al Joint Ac­tion Com­mit­tee com­mem­o­rat­ed the 56th an­niver­sary of the 1970 Black Pow­er Rev­o­lu­tion yes­ter­day, April 21, by call­ing on the na­tion to re­flect on those events and work to­wards a new and just so­ci­ety.

Six­teen years af­ter los­ing her nephew in a jet ski ac­ci­dent in To­ba­go, Kath­leen Roberts is urg­ing for­give­ness for the sus­pect in the death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie.

Head of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS), As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Sur­ren­dra Sagram­s­ingh, has been sent on leave as part of the probe in­to the mur­der of Anusha Ever­s­ley and the theft of guns and am­mu­ni­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion on Sun­day.

The Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­bers (CR­BC) is call­ing for ur­gent na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty re­form and struc­tured in­ter­na­tion­al sup­port, warn­ing that re­cent de­vel­op­ments, in­clud­ing breach­es and op­er­a­tional fail­ures with­in the se­cu­ri­ty sys­tem, are deep­en­ing pub­lic fear and erod­ing con­fi­dence in dai­ly life.

Pres­i­dent of the Trans­port In­dus­tri­al Work­ers Union (TI­WU), Shawn Roberts, says the union is pre­pared to in­ten­si­fy its protest ac­tion if it does not meet with the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion’s (PTSC) Gen­er­al Man­ag­er and se­cure the with­draw­al of a dis­missal let­ter is­sued to a work­er.

A woman from Tacarigua scored vic­to­ry in her le­gal dis­pute over a move by her now-de­ceased hus­band to trans­fer his share in their prop­er­ty to his two daugh­ters, whom he fa­thered out­side their mar­riage.