Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is push­ing back against con­cerns over the per­mit sys­tem un­der the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Act, say­ing there is no rea­son for the pub­lic to be alarmed.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says al­le­ga­tions of sex­u­al ha­rass­ment and preda­to­ry be­hav­iour in­volv­ing young peo­ple in the On-the-Job Train­ing (OJT) Pro­gramme were left un­ad­dressed un­der the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Stu­dents of Canaan Pres­by­ter­ian School will con­tin­ue their ed­u­ca­tion from Mon­day through a struc­tured pro­gramme of school­work af­ter a fire gut­ted eight class­rooms at the Dun­can Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, school yes­ter­day, forc­ing a tem­po­rary halt to nor­mal class­es.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says re­me­di­al works are con­tin­u­ing at Gloster Lodge Mora­vian Pri­ma­ry School, which was closed on Tues­day, with some crit­i­cal works sched­uled to be com­plet­ed over the week­end.

The Gov­ern­ment has ex­tend­ed the tran­si­tion­al pe­ri­od for ex­ist­ing scrap met­al deal­ers by an­oth­er year, giv­ing them un­til Oc­to­ber 14, 2027, to meet li­cens­ing and oth­er statu­to­ry re­quire­ments.

The Cuban Em­bassy and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Friends of Cu­ba (TTFC) will host a film screen­ing on Oc­to­ber 17 to com­mem­o­rate the 50th an­niver­sary of the bomb­ing of Cubana Flight 455, which killed all 73 peo­ple aboard the air­craft on Oc­to­ber 6, 1976.

Guyana’s Op­po­si­tion Leader Azrud­din Mo­hamed was grant­ed GUY$750,000 (One Guyana dol­lar=US$0.004 cents) bail on Fri­day, af­ter he ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Faith Mc­Gusty at the George­town Mag­is­trates’ Court on gun-re­lat­ed crimes.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says re­me­di­al works are con­tin­u­ing at Gloster Lodge Mora­vian Pri­ma­ry School, which was closed on Tues­day, with some crit­i­cal works sched­uled to be com­plet­ed over the com­ing week­end.

Par­ents giv­ing birth at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal Cam­pus can now reg­is­ter their ba­bies and re­ceive their birth cer­tifi­cates be­fore leav­ing the hos­pi­tal.

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices has set­tled more than $75.5 mil­lion in com­mit­ments to the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go, fol­low­ing a pay­ment of $8.25 mil­lion on Thurs­day.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) Fri­day said that growth across the West­ern Hemi­sphere has re­mained re­silient, sup­port­ed by strong Unit­ed States de­mand, high com­mod­i­ty prices, eas­i­er fi­nan­cial con­di­tions, ro­bust tourism, and re­mit­tance in­flows.

Kenya’s health min­istry con­firmed that a third per­son test­ed pos­i­tive for Ebo­la on Fri­day while in quar­an­tine af­ter be­ing iden­ti­fied as a known con­tact of the first pa­tient, who died two days af­ter ar­riv­ing from Con­go.