The Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (TSC) says there is no short­age of qual­i­fied teach­ers for gov­ern­ment and gov­ern­ment-as­sist­ed pri­ma­ry schools in Trinidad.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says au­thor­i­ties have the sit­u­a­tion un­der con­trol af­ter an air­craft car­ry­ing sev­er­al tons of pro­hib­it­ed and dan­ger­ous items land­ed at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port yes­ter­day evening.

The Jus­tice De­part­ment is prepar­ing to seek an in­dict­ment against for­mer Cuban Pres­i­dent Raúl Cas­tro, three peo­ple fa­mil­iar with the mat­ter told The As­so­ci­at­ed Press on Fri­day, as Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump threat­ens pos­si­ble mil­i­tary ac­tion against the com­mu­nist-run is­land.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) is de­fend­ing its de­ci­sion to end its re­la­tion­ship with Moody’s In­vestors Ser­vice, say­ing the move forms part of a strate­gic re­align­ment aimed at se­cur­ing a cred­it rat­ing that bet­ter re­flects the com­pa­ny’s stand­alone fi­nan­cial strength.

Cana­di­an rap­per Drake has now joined the list of en­ter­tain­ers to sam­ple Denise “Saucy Wow” Bel­fon’s icon­ic song Work, and she is elat­ed. She told Guardian Me­dia her phone has been buzzing non­stop, and some fans are even hop­ing the two get the chance to share the stage.

State-owned Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed is in­ves­ti­gat­ing yet an­oth­er oil spill—this time in Tarou­ba—even as Gov­ern­ment faces crit­i­cism over its han­dling of a sep­a­rate off­shore spill that af­fect­ed wa­ters near Venezuela.

A 17-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man, were ar­rest­ed and are ex­pect­ed to be charged af­ter they al­leged­ly stole a $5,000 gold bracelet from a busi­ness­woman in Princes Town on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Res­i­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go are be­ing urged to se­cure loose out­door items and ex­er­cise cau­tion as a Yel­low Lev­el High Wind Alert re­mains in ef­fect from 10:00 am on Fri­day, May 15, un­til 2:00 pm on Sun­day, May 17.

A 25-year-old man was killed and two oth­ers wound­ed in a dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Arou­ca on Thurs­day night.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion says teach­ers are still with­out a clear time­line for re­ceiv­ing salary ar­rears and back­pay for the 2020-2023 pe­ri­od, de­spite as­sur­ances from the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion that cal­cu­la­tions are al­most com­plete.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says it is time for Trinidad and To­ba­go to be­gin tak­ing the pro­tec­tion of its politi­cians se­ri­ous­ly, ar­gu­ing that last week’s al­leged threat against par­lia­men­tar­i­ans high­lights that se­cu­ri­ty de­tails are not a lux­u­ry, but a ne­ces­si­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed that State se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a se­cu­ri­ty-re­lat­ed mat­ter in­volv­ing a car­go air­craft at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.