The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says pay­ments un­der the 2026 School Sup­plies and Book Grant are ex­pect­ed to be­gin by Sep­tem­ber 2, just five days be­fore the new school term be­gins.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has ad­mon­ished the Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion for its late start to the school re­pair pro­gramme.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is cur­rent­ly be­ing rep­re­sent­ed at Mis­sion Shak­thiSAT, a glob­al space ed­u­ca­tion ini­tia­tive em­pow­er­ing girls through sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy, by Kait­lyn Sa­ha­too.

The Gov­ern­ment’s Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print re­mains in the pro­cure­ment stage, de­spite ini­tial plans for some projects to be­gin this month.

The Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court was evac­u­at­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing fol­low­ing a sec­ond bomb threat in just over a week.

Man­agers of Fire­pow­er and Fire One Fire­works, the two largest fire­works providers in the coun­try, have wel­comed the move to silent fire­works for In­de­pen­dence Day and promise to de­liv­er good en­ter­tain­ment.

Gov­ern­ment’s con­sid­er­a­tion of a fire sta­tion for Moru­ga has brought a sense of re­lief to res­i­dents, who say a faster emer­gency re­sponse could save lives and prop­er­ty.

The Gov­ern­ment is prepar­ing to in­ten­si­fy its fight against child pornog­ra­phy, with Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der an­nounc­ing that new tech­nol­o­gy will soon be de­ployed to iden­ti­fy peo­ple in­volved in view­ing and dis­trib­ut­ing il­le­gal ma­te­r­i­al in­volv­ing chil­dren.

Al-Ih­saan In­sti­tute is en­cour­ag­ing peo­ple work­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ear­ly child­hood sec­tor to for­malise their qual­i­fi­ca­tions through its Ear­ly Child­hood Care and Ed­u­ca­tion (EC­CE) train­ing and work­force as­sess­ment path­ways.

A Form Five stu­dent has de­vel­oped an app to help lo­cal mar­ket ven­dors pro­mote and sell their pro­duce.

Pay­ments to suc­cess­ful ap­pli­cants of the 2026 School Sup­plies and Book Grant are ex­pect­ed to be­gin by Sep­tem­ber 2, as the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion works to com­plete fi­nal ver­i­fi­ca­tion of 45,953 ap­pli­ca­tions.

Of­fi­cers found the an­i­mals in a bushy area along Les Coteaux Road, in con­nec­tion with re­ports of live­stock theft in the Rox­bor­ough Po­lice Dis­trict.