Six boys are among the top nine stu­dents in this year’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA), as over­all stu­dent per­for­mance im­proved com­pared with last year.

Sig­nal Hill Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School is buzzing with ex­cite­ment, af­ter it pro­duced the top Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) stu­dent on the is­land.

Those were the sim­ple words of St Mar­garet’s An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School stu­dent Michael Mur­rell, af­ter learn­ing he had se­cured a place at St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege, as thou­sands of stu­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go cel­e­brat­ed their Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) re­sults yes­ter­day.

For more than 17,000 stu­dents who wrote the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA), yes­ter­day was not about text­books or re­vi­sion, but cel­e­bra­tion.

For hours, fire­fight­ers bat­tled a rag­ing fire, re­sult­ing in mil­lions of dol­lars in loss­es af­ter a two-sto­ry build­ing hous­ing A&S Fy­zo­ol Su­per­mar­ket and a home along Bonne Aven­ture Road, Gas­par­il­lo, was gut­ted.

One year be­fore her re­tire­ment, an es­tate con­sta­ble and her fam­i­ly are now home­less af­ter a fire de­stroyed their Moru­ga home on Wednes­day.

A Bel­mont woman is call­ing for ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion af­ter part of a re­tain­ing wall and road­way col­lapsed on­to her prop­er­ty ear­li­er this year, leav­ing her un­able to dri­ve in­to her yard and strug­gling with dai­ly ac­cess.

NCB Mer­chant Bank (Trinidad and To­ba­go) Lim­it­ed says a US$2 mil­lion cash ship­ment seized at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port last month was a le­git­i­mate trans­ac­tion con­duct­ed in the or­di­nary course of busi­ness be­tween reg­u­lat­ed fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions.

Store Bay ven­dors are promis­ing vis­i­tors an even bet­ter culi­nary ex­pe­ri­ence af­ter com­plet­ing a manda­to­ry qual­i­ty im­prove­ment work­shop aimed at rais­ing food and ser­vice stan­dards.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has launched a $2.25 mil­lion pro­gramme de­signed to give area rep­re­sen­ta­tives greater re­sources to ad­dress day-to-day chal­lenges in their com­mu­ni­ties.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has called out 100 mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Vol­un­teer De­fence Force to sup­port se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tions dur­ing the on­go­ing state of pub­lic emer­gency.

An ear­ly morn­ing fire caused mil­lions of dol­lars in dam­age af­ter de­stroy­ing a two-storey build­ing hous­ing A&S Fy­zo­ol Su­per­mar­ket and a home along Bonne Aven­ture Road, Gas­par­il­lo.