Va­len­cia po­lice have iden­ti­fied the man found burnt at Alex­is Cir­cu­lar, Plan­ta­tion Road, as James Le Carde.

Cab­i­net has agreed to work with the Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist com­mu­ni­ty to es­tab­lish a long-await­ed sec­ondary school, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie says on as­sum­ing of­fice, he met out­stand­ing in­voic­es left by the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gov­ern­ment for le­gal fees to­tal­ing $151,611,135.22, of which $82,393,780.12 has since been paid - and those paid the high­est in that sum in­clud­ed four for­eign law firms as well as Is­rael Khan, SC, and cur­rent House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh.

The At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Of­fice has paid the sum of $346,812,665.33 thus far for work on mat­ters re­lat­ing to the col­lapse of Cli­co.

On the day he was cel­e­brat­ing his daugh­ter writ­ing the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tion, 45-year-old Ra­jku­mar Pope was killed in what rel­a­tives de­scribed as a sense­less and un­pro­voked at­tack.

A cel­e­bra­tion of life turned in­to death on Thurs­day night, af­ter a 29-year-old man was mur­dered dur­ing a birth­day lime in Pa­tience Hill, To­ba­go.

A chill­ing What­sApp voice mes­sage a 32-year-old Point Fortin man sent to his girl­friend, short­ly af­ter he was stabbed, is now a key part of a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his mur­der.

Tyri­co Bay has been used by kid­nap­pers as a dump­ing site, pick up point and es­cape route this month alone, cre­at­ing a sense of fear in the com­mu­ni­ty.

The use of po­lice in schools has come un­der scruti­ny in Par­lia­ment, with the gov­ern­ment de­fend­ing the ini­tia­tive as ef­fec­tive while the Op­po­si­tion warns it is a flawed re­sponse to stu­dent vi­o­lence.

A grow­ing stand­off be­tween the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) and lead­ers of the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has reached a boil­ing point, as nurs­es protest stag­nant salaries, raise con­cerns about pa­tient care and sig­nal a ma­jor street demon­stra­tion on April 10th

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health Dr Rishad Seecha­ran says the gov­ern­ment has not yet made a de­ci­sion whether to con­tin­ue or dis­con­tin­ue the use of Cuban med­ical pro­fes­sion­als in the pub­lic health sys­tem.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young has suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed a land­mark case against the Trinidad Ex­press news­pa­per over be­ing de­famed by an ad­ver­tise­ment.