Of the 150 schools set to re­ceive gov­ern­ment-is­sued lap­tops for Form One stu­dents, 60 per cent re­main with­out them as the new school term start­ed yes­ter­day.

Ten­sions flared over the week­end in Bethes­da as a ver­bal brawl broke out be­tween PNM and TPP sup­port­ers, with TPP can­di­date for Bethes­da/Les Coteaux Zor­isha Hack­ett caught in the mid­dle.

Dur­ing the first half of every year, all eyes usu­al­ly turn to the reser­voir lev­els to de­ter­mine what im­pact the dry sea­son is hav­ing on our wa­ter re­sources.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $300,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a pri­vate ve­hi­cle in­spec­tor from Ch­agua­nas for a de­ci­sion by a for­mer trans­port com­mis­sion­er to stop him from op­er­at­ing. 

The Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty is deny­ing that the Cyril Ross Chil­dren’s Home along El Do­ra­do Road, Tu­na­puna, closed due to li­cens­ing de­lays.

Em­ploy­ees at­tached to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion are re­fus­ing to work, cit­ing what they de­scribed as an on­go­ing “mould in­fes­ta­tion” through­out the Tow­er B build­ing, which they say has per­sist­ed for the past three years.

A 65-year-old man is in sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter an ear­ly morn­ing at­tack at his To­co home on Sun­day.

Of­fi­cers of the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) from three dif­fer­ent po­lice di­vi­sions are in­ves­ti­gat­ing three sep­a­rate cas­es of rob­bery which hap­pened over the week­end.

To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty can­di­date Trevor James has threat­ened jail time for for­mer THA chief sec­re­tary An­cil Den­nis and for­mer in­fra­struc­ture sec­re­tary Kwe­si Des Vi­gnes, over what he de­scribed as mas­sive cor­rup­tion in road con­tracts across To­ba­go.

Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er Clive Clark has de­nied claims that mo­torists who re­new their dri­ver’s per­mits late are be­ing barred from ac­cess­ing the 10-year li­cence op­tion, fol­low­ing pub­lic com­plaints of sharply in­creased costs and con­fu­sion at some li­cens­ing of­fices.

For­mer To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is ques­tion­ing why Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has not told the Prime Min­is­ter ex­act­ly how he feels about the US mil­i­tary radar in To­ba­go air­port and ex­act­ly where To­bag­o­ni­ans think she should put it.

“I come with sor­row for the suf­fer­ing in­flict­ed up­on the Venezue­lan peo­ple fol­low­ing an il­le­git­i­mate mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion against our home­land,” she said with her right hand up. “I come with sor­row for the kid­nap­ping of two he­roes.”