The Op­po­si­tion says it is pleased that the Gov­ern­ment will host Re­pub­lic Day cel­e­bra­tions lat­er this month, adding that pub­lic pres­sure may have in­flu­enced the de­ci­sion fol­low­ing the can­cel­la­tion of the In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade.

For­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly has urged par­ents to be cau­tious as the Gov­ern­ment rein­tro­duces the top 200 list for Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) stu­dents.

For­mer pres­i­dent of the Med­ical Board, Dr Neil Singh, has called on Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe and the Med­ical Board to take ac­tion against doc­tors en­gag­ing in ad­ver­tis­ing, warn­ing that the prac­tice could harm the pub­lic.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer Faris Al-Rawi is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to state whether it in­tends to ful­ly pur­sue more than $1.4 bil­lion award­ed to the State as part of the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port Civ­il Mat­ter, as well as the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) and Su­per In­dus­tri­al Ser­vices (SIS) ar­bi­tra­tion mat­ter.

That is the ad­vice from star stu­dent of Par­vati Girls’ Hin­du Col­lege, Kait­lyn Sa­ha­too, who ob­tained five Grade Ones in her Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tions.

An in­sur­ance bro­ker­age com­pa­ny has been or­dered to give its for­mer long-stand­ing man­ag­ing di­rec­tor a sig­nif­i­cant re­tire­ment pack­age. 

For 27-year-old Jonathan Har­riper­sad, who lives with cere­bral pal­sy, last Thurs­day was a day of hap­pi­ness as he fi­nal­ly re­ceived the gift of bet­ter eye­sight. He was one of 14 peo­ple, in­clud­ing sev­er­al chil­dren, who re­ceived free glass­es through a part­ner­ship be­tween A Touch of Joy Foun­da­tion and Adam’s Op­ti­cal.

Res­i­dents of Clax­ton Bay flood­ed the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment’s con­stituen­cy of­fice at Her­mitage Road on Sat­ur­day to take ad­van­tage of free med­ical treat­ment.

A Venezue­lan na­tion­al was ar­rest­ed with a pis­tol af­ter he al­leged­ly fired gun­shots at Store Bay Beach Fa­cil­i­ty around 10 am to­day.

A man who snatched a gold beera in Ch­agua­nas on Sat­ur­day was caught short­ly af­ter­ward by po­lice.

A fam­i­ly of four es­caped with­out in­jury af­ter a fire par­tial­ly de­stroyed their home in Low­lands, To­ba­go, on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Around 6 am, the oc­cu­pant was awak­ened by heat and saw that his bed and mat­tress were on fire. He tried to put out the flames with wa­ter, but the house was soon en­gulfed.