For­mer Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment Ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Hazel Man­ning’s of­fer to seek the chair­man­ship of the par­ty’s San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy has been wel­comed by past and present PN­Mites and south­ern­ers.

For­mer PNM min­is­ter Hazel Man­ning’s de­ci­sion to en­ter the po­lit­i­cal fray at this time and seek the San Fer­nan­do East chair­man­ship is strate­gic and well timed, and demon­strates the dri­ven sta­bil­i­ty she rep­re­sent­ed as a min­is­ter and along­side her late hus­band, for­mer prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed has said.

Forced out of the class­room for al­most an aca­d­e­m­ic year due to a de­bil­i­tat­ing back in­jury, Bish­op’s High School stu­dent and sprint­er Malique Young has learned that the race is not al­ways for the swift.

For Kirsten-Jade Ram­per­sad, sewing and fash­ion were more than week­end ac­tiv­i­ties. They were ways to clear her mind, recharge and re­fo­cus on her stud­ies, help­ing her ex­cel with eight Grade Ones, each with a Grade A, in her CSEC ex­am­i­na­tions.