A mo­tor­cy­cle de­liv­ery dri­ver with Domi­no’s Piz­za was killed on Sun­day night af­ter he was ac­ci­den­tal­ly run over.

A group of young en­vi­ron­men­tal ad­vo­cates dressed as su­per­heroes are tak­ing their mes­sage of sus­tain­abil­i­ty in­to schools across Trinidad, en­cour­ag­ing chil­dren to re­duce their de­pen­dence on sin­gle-use plas­tics and be­come cham­pi­ons for the en­vi­ron­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has for­mal­ly pro­posed re­fer­ring Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dis­pute over the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett to the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ), while Ja­maica is urg­ing re­gion­al lead­ers to strength­en en­gage­ment with Port-of-Spain, warn­ing that the con­tro­ver­sy has ex­posed di­vi­sions with­in the re­gion­al bloc.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has de­fend­ed his ab­sence from the del­e­ga­tion ac­com­pa­ny­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to the 51st Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment in St Lu­cia, in­sist­ing min­is­ters should on­ly trav­el when their port­fo­lios re­quire it.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $650,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to six mem­bers of a fam­i­ly, who were ma­li­cious­ly pros­e­cut­ed for mar­i­jua­na, firearm and am­mu­ni­tion pos­ses­sion af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a raid on their home in late 2019.

A man from Mara­bel­la, ac­cused of stab­bing his moth­er’s teenage ten­ant to death when he was 14-years-old, has been re­leased af­ter spend­ing al­most two decades in prison.

For years, heavy rain­fall meant more than can­celled lessons at Debe Hin­du SDMS Pri­ma­ry School. Lo­cat­ed on a riv­er bank, stu­dents were ac­cus­tomed to mud­dy flood­wa­ters in­side their class­room, snakes and cen­tipedes slith­er­ing through the com­pound, and teach­ers, par­ents and vil­lagers rolling up their sleeves to clean be­fore chil­dren could re­turn to learn­ing.

Six blind and vi­su­al­ly im­paired stu­dents have de­fied ex­pec­ta­tions in this year’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA), prompt­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) to call for greater in­vest­ment in in­clu­sive ed­u­ca­tion and high­er ex­pec­ta­tions for chil­dren with dis­abil­i­ties.

CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia, Jul 6 (CMC) – Ja­maica’s Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness says that while his coun­try is not seek­ing to over­turn the de­ci­sion of re­gion­al lead­ers to reap­point Dr Car­la Bar­nett as Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM), it re­mains “con­cerned that the ap­proach tak­en has nei­ther re­solved the mat­ter nor pro­mot­ed the spir­it and goals of the Re­vised Treaty of Ch­aguara­mas”.

Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic’s ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 73-year-old Gre­go­ry Ca­pri­et­ta, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing af­ter last be­ing seen near­ly a week ago.

Po­lice are ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 13-year-old Nata­nia Noth­ing­ham, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

Trinidad and To­ba­go says its ob­jec­tion to the reap­point­ment of Dr Car­la Bar­nett as Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al is “nei­ther per­son­al nor po­lit­i­cal”.