The sus­pen­sion of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) pro­gramme has sparked con­cern among ed­u­ca­tors and youth ad­vo­cates, who warn that in­ter­rupt­ing the ini­tia­tive could leave vul­ner­a­ble young men with­out one of the coun­try’s most sig­nif­i­cant in­ter­ven­tions against crime and so­cial ex­clu­sion.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve are claim­ing that their clients are be­ing tar­get­ed by the Gov­ern­ment, based on their eth­nic­i­ty and an on­go­ing le­gal dis­pute over the ter­mi­na­tion of leas­es for State land.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says of­fi­cers are en­trust­ed with ex­tra­or­di­nary pow­ers and have a du­ty to up­hold in­tegri­ty, dis­ci­pline and ser­vice to the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad is urg­ing grad­u­ates of Cedar Grove Pri­vate School to mea­sure suc­cess not by per­son­al achieve­ment alone but by the strength of their char­ac­ter and com­mit­ment to serv­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Six boys are among the top nine stu­dents in this year’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA), as over­all stu­dent per­for­mance im­proved com­pared with last year.

Sig­nal Hill Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School is buzzing with ex­cite­ment, af­ter it pro­duced the top Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) stu­dent on the is­land.

Those were the sim­ple words of St Mar­garet’s An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School stu­dent Michael Mur­rell, af­ter learn­ing he had se­cured a place at St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege, as thou­sands of stu­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go cel­e­brat­ed their Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) re­sults yes­ter­day.

For more than 17,000 stu­dents who wrote the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA), yes­ter­day was not about text­books or re­vi­sion, but cel­e­bra­tion.

For hours, fire­fight­ers bat­tled a rag­ing fire, re­sult­ing in mil­lions of dol­lars in loss­es af­ter a two-sto­ry build­ing hous­ing A&S Fy­zo­ol Su­per­mar­ket and a home along Bonne Aven­ture Road, Gas­par­il­lo, was gut­ted.

One year be­fore her re­tire­ment, an es­tate con­sta­ble and her fam­i­ly are now home­less af­ter a fire de­stroyed their Moru­ga home on Wednes­day.

A Bel­mont woman is call­ing for ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion af­ter part of a re­tain­ing wall and road­way col­lapsed on­to her prop­er­ty ear­li­er this year, leav­ing her un­able to dri­ve in­to her yard and strug­gling with dai­ly ac­cess.

NCB Mer­chant Bank (Trinidad and To­ba­go) Lim­it­ed says a US$2 mil­lion cash ship­ment seized at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port last month was a le­git­i­mate trans­ac­tion con­duct­ed in the or­di­nary course of busi­ness be­tween reg­u­lat­ed fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions.