A St Joseph man was grant­ed bail in the sum of $75,000 when he ap­peared be­fore a Jus­tice of the Peace this week, charged with ob­tain­ing lap­tops val­ued at $65,400 by false pre­tens­es.

Min­is­ters of the Chris­t­ian Coun­cil of San Fer­nan­do bless 145 ham­pers for dis­tri­b­u­tion to needy fam­i­lies in the south­ern city of San Fer­nan­do and en­vi­rons. This was third such ac­tiv­i­ty by the group in re­cent months us­ing the grant re­ceived from the gov­ern­ment due to COVID -19 con­straints. From left, Pas­tor Dan­ny Ab­dool, Bish­op Clyde Bak­er (Sec­re­tary), Pas­tor Rawle Mat­tadeen, Rev Ter­rence Chap­man, Apos­tle Ter­rence Hon­ore' (Pres), Rev Ju­dith Hon­ore and Pas­tor Anil Mon­gru. Not in pho­to ares­Fr An­tho­ny Mowlah-baksh and Cap­tain Le­ba Hayling.

To add to his long list of ac­co­lades, Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co will now be im­mor­talised at the Caribbean Wax Mu­se­um in Nor­man Cen­tre, Bridgetown, Bar­ba­dos.

Over 20 fam­i­lies, among them a three-week-old ba­by, were evict­ed from the for­mer Petrotrin bun­ga­lows at Clifton Hill, Point Fortin, ear­ly yes­ter­day.