(Trinidad Guardian) Even as investigations continue into the cheating scandal which occurred during last Wednesday’s CSEC Math exam at the Tranquillity Government Secondary School, a parallel investigation has been launched into the absence of a key senior official who ought to have been present at the institution on the day.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Housing Edmund Dillon says construction will begin this year on 439 low and middle-income housing units in Port-of-Spain and San Fernando.
(Trinidad Guardian) A petition circulating is calling for all students to re-sit the 2019 CSEC Maths exams following serious breaches of the examination regulations.
(Trinidad Express) A 62-year-old employee of funeral home, is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate today, after being arrested and charged for drug trafficking.
(Trinidad Guardian) Villagers at Saroop Trace in Las Lomas No. 2 were left traumatised and forced to lock up in their homes early yesterday afternoon, after the two remaining prisoners who escaped from Golden Grove in Arouca were seen running through the area.
(Trinidad Guardian) Part of Charlotte Street, from Park Street to Independence Square, is to be officially designated as ‘Chinatown’ and archways are to be built by the Shanghai Construction Group to signify it.
(Trinidad Guardian) David Phillip, the alleged bandit who was fatally shot during a robbery in Fyzabad on Wednesday is actually Gary Govindass of Fyzabad.
(Trinidad Express) The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is investigating a breach in examination security, after a video surfaced on Facebook showing students of Central Trinidad school using their cellular phones and chatting during a CSEC Mathematics examination.
(Trinidad Guardian) The National Helicopter Services Limited (NHSL) is now investigating what caused a multi-million dollar helicopter that was part of a joint law enforcement search for eight prisoners to crash shortly after one yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Five of the eight men who made a daring dash for freedom from the Golden Grove Remand Yard in Arouca were recaptured by a joint team of army, police and prison officers shortly before 7 pm yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Shazana Hosein has been sent to St Ann’s Hospital after she appeared before the court charged with the Valentine’s Day attempted murder of her boyfriend.
(Trinidad Newsday) A 30-year-old Princes Town woman who stabbed her boyfriend, for no reason according to police, after having lunch with him on a beach in Siparia, is expected to face a magistrate today charged with attempted murder.
(Trinidad Guardian) Even with bullets still in her body, a defiant Andrea Yusuff left the San Fernando General Hospital to return home to her family after learning that her common-law husband had not survived Sunday’s attack.
(Trinidad Guardian) In what police believe was a land dispute turned deadly, a 46-year-old female teacher was brutally stabbed with an icepick in front of her Standard Two pupils at the St Pious Boys’ RC School in Arouca on Monday.