The line out­side an ice cream shop at South­Park Mall, San Fer­nan­do, be­gan to buck­le just hours af­ter the fi­nal pa­per was writ­ten, as chil­dren fresh out of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) pressed for­ward, hop­ing to be among the first 100 to claim a vouch­er and a bank ac­count re­ward.

Years of stud­ies, prac­tice tests and ex­tra lessons came to an end for thou­sands of pri­ma­ry school stu­dents who sat the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions yes­ter­day, as par­ents and their chil­dren cel­e­brat­ed the end of the first phase of their ed­u­ca­tion jour­ney.

To­ba­go stu­dents have cred­it­ed hard work and prayer for help­ing get them ready for yes­ter­day's Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA).

Op­er­a­tions at the Williamsville Health Cen­tre were dis­rupt­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter a pri­vate­ly-owned elec­tric­i­ty pole fell on­to the fa­cil­i­ty’s gate, ig­nit­ing a fire.

The broth­er of the mur­dered Ce­dros crick­eter, Rashme Deoa­jit, is plead­ing with any­one who knows the where­abouts of the sus­pect to alert the po­lice.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has con­firmed man­age­ment plans for fast bowlers Jay­den Seales, Shamar Joseph and Alzarri Joseph ahead of a se­ries of match­es.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries has launched a pi­lot pro­gramme for soy­abean, corn and black­eye beans pro­duc­tion with a plant­i­ng ex­er­cise at South­ern Main Road, Ca­roni.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has re­newed its part­ner­ship with the Na­tion­al Con­gress of In­cor­po­rat­ed Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist Or­gan­i­sa­tions of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NCOIS­BOTT) to sup­port crime pre­ven­tion ef­forts.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has con­demned Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar over her re­cent com­ments on the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty, ac­cus­ing her of dam­ag­ing the coun­try’s re­gion­al stand­ing.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy, Ernesto Ke­sar, met with ex­ec­u­tives of ARTEMIS En­er­gy Lim­it­ed on Wednes­day.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is set to be­gin ur­gent waste­water works to­day at the Nel­son Street Hous­ing Apart­ment Com­plex fol­low­ing re­ports of over­flow­ing sewage.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 33-year-old Mark Davis Parks, who has been miss­ing for over two months.