Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram says the Cab­i­net has ap­proved a ma­jor en­vi­ron­men­tal re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion pro­gramme to re­for­est lands im­pact­ed by en­er­gy de­vel­op­ment.

The Gov­ern­ment has re­in­stat­ed the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) top per­form­ers awards cer­e­mo­ny, a tra­di­tion that had been shelved un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-ad­min­is­tra­tion.

A co­or­di­nat­ed an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the south-west has led to sev­er­al ar­rests and the seizure of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion.

A State of Emer­gency an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Ma­yaro has led to the ar­rest of two peo­ple and the seizure of a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis.

Twelve years af­ter the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly, THA, spent 24 mil­lion dol­lars to ac­quire Sanc­tu­ary Vil­las in Black Rock, the prop­er­ty is now up for sale.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) will ac­ti­vate an ad­di­tion­al hot­line for school prin­ci­pals and su­per­vi­sors ahead of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tion.

Vil­lagers of Rio Claro took to the streets in protest on Mon­day, call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment and the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) to re­plant forests cleared for en­er­gy projects and pro­vide long-promised em­ploy­ment to res­i­dents.

Dead are 17-year-old Jor­dan Cud­joe Burke, 22-year-old Ish­mael Matthews, and 21-year-old Rober­to Samuel Car­los of Corinth Hills, San Fer­nan­do.

Two Laven­tille men and one Beetham man are ex­pect­ed to be ques­tioned af­ter they were caught by po­lice on the com­pound of a Laven­tille hard­ware store ear­ly on Mon­day morn­ing.

A 21-year-old Bel­mont man is be­ing treat­ed for gun­shot wounds af­ter an at­tack near his home on Sun­day night.

Two peo­ple were killed and sev­er­al oth­ers bad­ly hurt when an Air Cana­da re­gion­al jet struck a fire truck on a run­way while land­ing at New York’s La­Guardia Air­port, of­fi­cials said.

The Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go says mi­nors de­tained un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) are well tak­en care of while in cus­tody, fol­low­ing ques­tions sur­round­ing the de­ten­tion of a 16-year-old boy un­der the spe­cial pow­ers re­cent­ly.