Stu­dents of Ari­ma Girls’ RC School ex­plored ca­reer paths dur­ing a school ca­reer day on March 6, dur­ing a vis­it from Guardian Me­dia jour­nal­ists Ryan Ba­choo and Jean-Marc Ram­per­sad.

Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er Clive Clarke has an­nounced sweep­ing re­forms aimed at mod­ernising dri­ver test­ing, reg­u­lat­ing dri­ving schools, and strength­en­ing over­sight of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s li­cens­ing sys­tem, amid grow­ing con­cerns over the ef­fi­cien­cy and in­tegri­ty of the na­tion’s traf­fic man­age­ment frame­work.

Scores of peo­ple, in­clud­ing for­mer CEPEP work­ers, turned out for the sec­ond phase of a Gov­ern­ment re­cruit­ment dri­ve in Cou­va on yes­ter­day, hop­ing to se­cure steady em­ploy­ment af­ter months—and in some cas­es years—with­out sta­ble jobs.

Long-stand­ing plumb­ing prob­lems at the Debe cam­pus of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) are set to be per­ma­nent­ly re­solved ahead of its an­tic­i­pat­ed Au­gust open­ing, with of­fi­cials con­firm­ing that four fac­ul­ties—in­clud­ing law and an ex­pand­ed med­i­cine pro­gramme—will be housed at the site when it be­comes op­er­a­tional.

More than 250 sec­ondary school stu­dents learned prac­ti­cal mon­ey-man­age­ment skills aimed at help­ing them make smarter fi­nan­cial de­ci­sions in the fu­ture, dur­ing fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy ses­sions host­ed by the Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BATT).

Is­rael killed an­oth­er top Iran­ian of­fi­cial — the in­tel­li­gence min­is­ter — in its cam­paign against the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic’s lead­er­ship and re­port­ed­ly at­tacked an Iran­ian off­shore nat­ur­al gas field Wednes­day amid the war’s es­ca­lat­ing pres­sure on the re­gion’s eco­nom­ic lifeblood: en­er­gy.

A con­tin­gent of more than 200 Kenyan po­lice of­fi­cers re­turned home on Tues­day night from Haiti, where their ser­vices formed part of Kenya’s broad­er lead­er­ship role in the UN-backed multi­na­tion­al mis­sion aimed at im­prov­ing se­cu­ri­ty in the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try.

Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez an­nounced a ma­jor Cab­i­net shake-up Wednes­day with the ap­point­ment of a new de­fense min­is­ter to re­place Gen. Vladimir Padri­no López, who had been a cor­ner­stone of the mil­i­tary’s long-stand­ing sup­port for for­mer Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr. Kei­th Row­ley is trig­ger­ing sharp re­spons­es from gov­ern­ment min­is­ters af­ter he re­ferred to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as a “jamette”.

That's how for­mer act­ing po­lice com­mis­sion­er Stephen Williams has deemed the be­hav­iour of De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, fol­low­ing Sturge's re­cent re­marks in Par­lia­ment al­leg­ing po­lice in­ac­tion con­cern­ing the 2014 mur­der of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Dana See­ta­hal, SC.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) says long-stand­ing plumb­ing fail­ures at its Debe cam­pus are set to be per­ma­nent­ly fixed, with ini­tial es­ti­mates for the work placed at about $4 mil­lion, as con­trac­tors pre­pare to be­gin ad­di­tion­al in­fra­struc­ture up­grades ahead of a planned Au­gust open­ing.

A co­or­di­nat­ed emer­gency re­sponse in­volv­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard, North Post Ra­dio Sta­tion, mar­itime stake­hold­ers and mem­bers of the lo­cal fish­ing com­mu­ni­ty, re­sult­ed in the res­cue of a dis­abled yacht that had be­gun drift­ing to­wards Venezue­lan wa­ters.