Mem­bers of the Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist faith are wel­com­ing the an­nounce­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that her Gov­ern­ment plans to con­struct a sec­ondary school for the com­mu­ni­ty, re­viv­ing a long-stand­ing de­mand from with­in the faith for equal ac­cess to de­nom­i­na­tion­al ed­u­ca­tion.

Near­ly a year af­ter it was con­demned as a “free for all” and tar­get­ed for re­form, the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route pass sys­tem has been re­set, but of­fi­cial fig­ures show dis­tri­b­u­tion con­tin­ued un­changed through the tran­si­tion, rais­ing ques­tions about whether the sys­tem was ever fun­da­men­tal­ly over­hauled.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has hint­ed at a grand open­ing of the spank­ing new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in time for To­ba­go Car­ni­val.

Stu­dents of the Fac­ul­ty of Law at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies are push­ing back against a pro­posed re­lo­ca­tion to the Debe South Cam­pus, call­ing for an ur­gent meet­ing with key stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein, Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Pro­fes­sor Prakash Per­sad, the UWI prin­ci­pal, and of­fi­cials at the Law Fac­ul­ty.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty says four crit­i­cal wells in To­ba­go have been van­dalised, re­sult­ing in wide­spread dis­rup­tion to the wa­ter sup­ply. In a me­dia re­lease yes­ter­day, WASA said the van­dal­ism took place at the Claude Noel High­way, Ba­co­let, Arnos Vale and Bloody Bay wells, leav­ing 17 ar­eas with­out a con­sis­tent sup­ply of pipe-borne wa­ter.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) says it is ac­knowl­edg­ing con­cerns raised by nurs­ing staff over re­cent pay­ments linked to over­time and pool as­sign­ments, as­sur­ing that the mat­ter is be­ing ad­dressed in ac­cor­dance with the law.

Pres­i­dent of the Prison Of­fi­cers As­so­ci­a­tion Ger­ard Gor­don is again rais­ing the is­sue of space at the coun­try’s pris­ons as de­tainees un­der the State of Emer­gency in­crease al­most dai­ly.

Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors were ex­pect­ed to ques­tion a teenage sus­pect yes­ter­day in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of fa­ther of two, Ra­jku­mar Pope.

Po­lice are prob­ing what they be­lieve is the mur­der of an 82-year-old pen­sion­er, whose body was burnt close to his home in Va­len­cia.

Amid the hus­tle, bus­tle and bur­geon­ing life of east Port-of-Spain stands the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion. Its blue lime­stone blocks tow­er in­to the sky, rep­re­sent­ing both a ge­o­graph­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal land­mark east of the na­tion’s cap­i­tal.

Tiger Woods got out of jail and in­to the pas­sen­ger seat of a dark SUV, his face as va­cant as his mug shot as he was dri­ven away to a fu­ture again filled with so much un­cer­tain­ty.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has re­port­ed acts of van­dal­ism at four crit­i­cal wa­ter sup­ply fa­cil­i­ties in To­ba­go, warn­ing that the dam­age has dis­rupt­ed ser­vice to sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties.