Two years af­ter Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly an­nounced that con­struc­tion of the Holy Cross An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School in Mara­bel­la was 90 per cent com­plete, the school re­mains un­opened.

North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Davlin Thomas gave an as­sur­ance yes­ter­day that re­pairs to el­e­va­tors at the Mt Hope Women’s Hos­pi­tal would be com­plet­ed by last night and would be ready for use by staff and pa­tients to­day.

De­spite the fear and con­cern from the pub­lic over the ris­ing mur­der toll, the Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er in charge of In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tors, Curt Si­mon, says the po­lice are pre­pared and ca­pa­ble of tack­ling crime.

The mak­er of an ex­treme­ly spicy tor­tilla chip sold as the One Chip Chal­lenge and pop­u­lar­ized as a dare on so­cial me­dia is pulling the prod­uct af­ter the fam­i­ly of a Mass­a­chu­setts teenag­er blamed the stunt for his death.

A Stan­dard Five teacher has been charged with a sex­u­al of­fence against one of his stu­dents. Po­lice ar­rest­ed the 47-year-old teacher who works at a pri­ma­ry school in Ch­agua­nas at the school on Wednes­day. He was charged by WPC Rogers-Flem­ming, with one count of sex­u­al touch­ing of a child.

A Mor­vant man was gunned down near a fu­ner­al home in Laven­tille this af­ter­noon. Po­lice said Em­manuel Parks drove to a me­chan­ic shop on the East­ern Main Road, Suc­cess Vil­lage, Laven­tille, when he was con­front­ed by gun­men who shot him sev­er­al times killing him.

Af­ter months of Guyana record­ing more dengue cas­es and deaths than usu­al, Health Min­is­ter Dr. Frank An­tho­ny said it ap­pears as though the surge has eased.

More at­ten­tion should be paid to chil­dren suf­fer­ing with men­tal health is­sues. This call came from Dr Rai Rag­bir, med­ical prac­ti­tion­er and Cu­mu­to Man­zanil­la MP.

Frus­trat­ed par­ents and past stu­dents of the Mara­bel­la Boys' and Girls' An­gli­can School are call­ing on the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion to open the new school.

Stu­dents of Preysal Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School were kept home for the sec­ond day to­day due to a sew­er prob­lem.

Hur­ri­cane Lee whirled through open wa­ters on Thurs­day as fore­cast­ers warned it could be­come the first Cat­e­go­ry 5 storm of the At­lantic sea­son.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice is re­fut­ing claims that a pris­on­er was beat­en to death at the Gold­en Grove Prison, de­scrib­ing them as “ma­li­cious and in­ac­cu­rate”.