Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John was on the ground at the Sea Lots wa­ter pumps yes­ter­day, as­sur­ing cit­i­zens that her min­istry is work­ing around the clock to keep Port-of-Spain dry and to strength­en the coun­try’s flood re­sponse.

Res­i­dents and busi­ness­es in Union Hall, San Fer­nan­do, are again call­ing for ur­gent drainage up­grades af­ter Mon­day’s floods left roads im­pass­able and prop­er­ties un­der wa­ter.

Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA), Wal­ter Stew­art, says the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry in­tends to rent the 300-plus chairs need­ed for stu­dents of South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School (SE­POS), at least in the short term, as it is not the on­ly school in need of fur­ni­ture.

Of­fi­cers from the La Ro­maine Po­lice Post and the San Fer­nan­do Crime Pa­trol Unit re­cov­ered a stolen ve­hi­cle dur­ing an An­ti-Crime Stop and Search ex­er­cise in La Ro­maine on Mon­day.

Bar­ba­dos is set to have a new head of state, as Prime Min­is­ter Mia Amor Mot­t­ley and Op­po­si­tion Leader Ralph Thorne to­day signed the of­fi­cial doc­u­ments nom­i­nat­ing for­mer health min­is­ter and re­tired mil­i­tary of­fi­cer, Lieu­tenant Colonel Jef­frey Bostic, to be the is­land’s sec­ond pres­i­dent.

The San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion has is­sued a clar­i­fi­ca­tion on its traf­fic con­trol plan around the Skin­ner Park fa­cil­i­ty, fol­low­ing con­cerns from par­ents and guardians about school drop-off and pick-up pro­ce­dures.

T&T crick­eter Khary Pierre has been called up to the West In­dies Test squad while Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul has been re­called for the tour of In­dia.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent hap­pened around 11:50 am at Bound­ary Road, when a man en­tered the vic­tim’s yard armed with a knife and de­mand­ed mon­ey and jew­ellery.

Po­lice said the dri­ver was ply­ing his black Nis­san Almera, reg­is­tra­tion HCD 9387, along the East­ern Main Road around 4:50 am when he picked up a man near TTPost, San Juan.

A man iden­ti­fied on­ly as “Jay” was shot and killed dur­ing a sus­pect­ed rob­bery in Arou­ca ear­ly this morn­ing.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) says ur­gent elec­tri­cal up­grade works will take place at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) from 6 am on Fri­day 19th Sep­tem­ber to 6 am on Mon­day 22nd Sep­tem­ber.

The par­ent body of the Preysal Sec­ondary School is con­demn­ing an in­ci­dent last week where stu­dents locked a po­lice of­fi­cer in a class­room.