Po­lice said at about 5 pm the boy was play­ing in a neigh­bour’s yard at Sawmill Av­enue when he heard a gun­shot. He then felt a burn­ing sen­sa­tion in the leg and re­alised that he was shot.

Chair­man of the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment of T&T, Noel Gar­cia yes­ter­day con­firmed that de­spite the hic­cups with the Shang­hai Con­struc­tion com­pa­ny, the Cen­tral Block at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal project has not col­lapsed.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pub­lic sec­tor is be­ing per­ceived as slight­ly less cor­rupt than it was a year be­fore.

It’s been three months since pen­sion­er Mo­han Ram­nath and his wife Karen lost their home to a mys­te­ri­ous fire but de­spite their best ef­forts to re­build, ris­ing con­struc­tion costs have im­ped­ed their progress.