The fu­ture of the Book Grant and School Sup­plies Pro­gramme is un­cer­tain, as Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has con­firmed the ini­tia­tive is un­der re­view and re­ceived no fund­ing in this year’s na­tion­al bud­get.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) will con­tin­ue to fol­low the po­si­tion of the cen­tral gov­ern­ment on mat­ters of for­eign pol­i­cy, in­clud­ing the cur­rent ten­sions in­volv­ing Venezuela and the Unit­ed States in the Caribbean re­gion.

A Mor­vant man is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the hos­pi­tal af­ter he was struck while cross­ing the road on Tues­day.

In a bid to evade the po­lice and avoid ar­rest dur­ing a spe­cial op­er­a­tion at Mara­cas Bay on Tues­day, a man aban­doned a car which had over $5 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na and jumped in­to a near­by riv­er.

One week af­ter a La Ro­maine busi­ness­man and his wife were robbed of cash, jew­ellery, and a wed­ding ring dur­ing a home in­va­sion, po­lice have charged his broth­er with the crime.

A San Juan man was shot in the leg on Tues­day night as he stood on the steps of his home wait­ing for his wife to park her car in their garage.

De­spite her of­fice be­ing fire­bombed on two sep­a­rate oc­ca­sions, at­tor­ney Saira Lakhan, Pres­i­dent of the As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers (ASL), has vowed not to be in­tim­i­dat­ed, ex­press­ing full con­fi­dence that the per­pe­tra­tors will be brought to jus­tice.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has been al­lo­cat­ed $50 mil­lion to fund “covert op­er­a­tions” with­in the na­tion’s pris­ons.

The gov­ern­ment has cut $45 mil­lion from the On the Job (OJT) Train­ing Pro­gramme, but the Fi­nance Min­is­ter as­sures that more sus­tain­able jobs are com­ing.

Venezuela Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez is warn­ing that the Unit­ed States is “de­ceiv­ing” Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar over the new li­cence for ex­plo­ration of the Drag­on gas field.

Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has been sworn in as Chief Jus­tice af­ter he re­ceived his in­stru­ment of ap­point­ment this af­ter­noon from Act­ing Pres­i­dent Wade Mark at Pres­i­dent’s House in the pres­ence of sev­er­al dig­ni­taries, in­clud­ing out­go­ing Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has writ­ten to act­ing Pres­i­dent Wade Mark ques­tion­ing what she de­scribed as a “man­i­fest rush” to ap­point a sub­stan­tive Chief Jus­tice while Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo is out of the coun­try.