A 15-year-old To­ba­go school­boy is ex­pect­ed to miss the first day of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year to­day, as he re­mains in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing the death of his grand­fa­ther.

To­ba­go in­mates housed in Trinidad say in­car­cer­a­tion away from the is­land has left them iso­lat­ed and dis­con­nect­ed from their fam­i­lies.

Calls for tougher con­trols on fire­works are grow­ing af­ter Sat­ur­day’s dev­as­tat­ing fire in Port-of-Spain, which gut­ted a long-stand­ing elec­tri­cal re­pair busi­ness and de­stroyed two homes.

Methane bub­bling from the seabed. Vast beds of mus­sels thriv­ing in dark­ness. The re­mains of a man­ta ray pro­vid­ing a feast for deep-sea crea­tures. Sunken wood sup­port­ing life hun­dreds of me­tres be­low the sur­face.

Ran­dall Ash was killed short­ly af­ter mid­night yes­ter­day when gun­fire erupt­ed along Mur­ray Street, near Adam Smith Park.

The search for miss­ing Pi­paro res­i­dent Nelvin Ali end­ed in tragedy yes­ter­day, af­ter his body was dis­cov­ered in the vil­lage.

A 23-year-old Venezue­lan woman, who al­leged­ly claimed she found an aban­doned ba­by on the side of the road in South Oropouche, is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court to­day, af­ter po­lice de­ter­mined that the new­born was, in fact, her own child.

The Court of Ap­peal will have to de­cide whether a law firm or a Ba­hamas-based sub­sidiary of CL Fi­nan­cial (CLF) should have ex­clu­sive ac­cess to le­gal costs that the es­tate of for­mer CLF ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Lawrence Duprey was award­ed for a dis­con­tin­ued law­suit against him (Duprey) and oth­er for­mer CLF ex­ec­u­tives, over their al­leged roles in the con­glom­er­ate’s col­lapse. 

A group of re­gion­al as­so­ci­a­tions rep­re­sent­ing fe­male judges have crit­i­cised An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne over his now con­tro­ver­sial com­ments in re­la­tion to a judge in that coun­try.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has warned par­ents that they must take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for dis­ci­plin­ing and guid­ing their chil­dren be­fore they grow in­to adults who run afoul of the law.

A 27-year-old man was shot dead and an­oth­er man wound­ed af­ter gun­men opened fire on a group along Mur­ray Street, Wood­brook, ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing.

The PNM’s hold on San Fer­nan­do East, un­bro­ken since the con­stituen­cy was cre­at­ed, is be­ing deemed un­der threat af­ter an in­ter­nal com­mit­tee found MP Bri­an Man­ning’s pop­u­lar­i­ty “may be dwin­dling” amid an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his bit­ter rup­ture with the con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive.