The sun beats down over Ce­dros on Fri­day af­ter­noon, cast­ing a sharp, sil­very glare across the shore­line. Gulls wheel over­head, squawk­ing as wood­en boats drift gen­tly on the calm, sun-dap­pled wa­ters.

Agri­co­la Cred­it Union re­cent­ly placed the spot­light on ed­u­ca­tion, ho­n­our­ing stu­dents who ex­celled in this year’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tion through its bur­sary pro­gramme.

Last Sun­day, Guardian Me­dia’s In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk re­vealed that five com­pa­nies linked to for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) min­is­ter and cur­rent Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Fos­ter Cum­mings re­ceived more than $100 mil­lion in state con­tracts from the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) and the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott) be­tween 2015 and 2025.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the de­ci­sion to send a se­nior of­fi­cer on va­ca­tion leave last week was in ac­cor­dance with his law­ful en­ti­tle­ments and in align­ment with strate­gic plan­ning.

Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez has at­tacked Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der, call­ing him a pawn of the Unit­ed States af­ter con­tro­ver­sial state­ments he made about Venezuela.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has sought ad­vice from At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, SC, over al­le­ga­tions made against him by de­tained prison su­per­vi­sor Garth Gua­da.

Ster­ling Hen­der­son, whose rich voice be­came syn­ony­mous with net­work news on I95.5FM and cul­tur­al events, passed away yes­ter­day at his home. It sent the me­dia fra­ter­ni­ty in this coun­try in­to mourn­ing, but more so, shock.

Youths ra­di­at­ed pos­i­tiv­i­ty and pride as the com­mu­ni­ty of Pe­nal came alive for this year’s post-In­de­pen­dence and pre-Re­pub­lic Day pa­rade. The event was host­ed by the St Patrick Brigade, which has been in ex­is­tence for al­most three decades. Due to fi­nan­cial and oth­er chal­lenges, how­ev­er, this was the first time in sev­en or eight years that the com­mu­ni­ty pa­rade was held.

A 12-year-old school­girl was found dead in a busy area near a recre­ation ground in her neigh­bour­hood at Friend­ship Vil­lage, Ste Madeleine, yes­ter­day.

Unit­ed States Sen­a­tors Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff on Fri­day in­tro­duced a War Pow­ers Act res­o­lu­tion that would block use of US Armed Forces to en­gage in hos­til­i­ties against cer­tain non-state or­ga­ni­za­tions fol­low­ing mul­ti­ple unau­tho­rized mil­i­tary strikes on un­ver­i­fied al­leged drug traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tions in the South­ern Caribbean Sea.

The In­di­an gov­ern­ment ex­pressed con­cern Sat­ur­day about Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lat­est push to up­end Amer­i­can im­mi­gra­tion pol­i­cy, dra­mat­i­cal­ly rais­ing the fee for visas that bring tech work­ers from In­dia and oth­er coun­tries to the Unit­ed States.

Just un­der one mile from the West End Po­lice Sta­tion, eight peo­ple were robbed of their mon­ey and valu­ables by ban­dits at the Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.