The fol­low­ing is a bul­letin is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS):

Her Ex­cel­len­cy, Paula-Mae Weekes, has de­clared Mon­day 24 Oc­to­ber 2022 a pub­lic hol­i­day in cel­e­bra­tion of the Fes­ti­val of Di­vali.

Civ­il En­gi­neer at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Dr Don Samuel is ques­tion­ing whether the new­ly formed Sec­ondary Road and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Com­pa­ny will have enough ma­te­ri­als to fix the na­tion's roads giv­en that some con­trac­tors are now im­port­ing bi­tu­men to ex­e­cute projects.

With 99 per cent of his stu­dents achiev­ing dis­tinc­tions in the re­cent Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) and CAPE, Maths Mas­ter Dr Fayad Ali is rec­om­mend­ing peer tu­tor­ing as one of the strate­gies for over­com­ing learn­ing chal­lenges at the sec­ondary lev­el.

A 33-year-old woman was at­tacked with a knife, beat­en and robbed by her ex-boyfriend at her home last Fri­day.

The UWI Re­gion­al Head­quar­ters, Ja­maica — The fol­low­ing state­ment is is­sued by Pro­fes­sor Sir Hi­lary Beck­les, Vice-Chan­cel­lor of The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies on be­half of the uni­ver­si­ty com­mu­ni­ty.

At a me­dia con­fer­ence at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, St Ann's, Port-of-Spain, Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Kei­th Row­ley stat­ed that the Pres­i­dent of Trinidad and To­ba­go will be rep­re­sent­ing the coun­try at Queen Eliz­a­beth II’s fu­ner­al.  

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 10:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: this af­ter­noon and tonight…

The Cer­e­mo­ni­al Open­ing of the 3rd Ses­sion of the 12th Re­pub­li­can Par­lia­ment takes place to­day, Mon­day 12 Sep­tem­ber 2022, at 1:30 pm.

ED­IN­BURGH, Scot­land — A memo­r­i­al ser­vice for Queen Eliz­a­beth II at St Giles’ cathe­dral in Ed­in­burgh has end­ed, and mem­bers of the pub­lic will soon be al­lowed in­side to pay their re­spects.

A woman died in a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent in Ma­yaro over the week­end. She has been iden­ti­fied Ormil­la Ra­jku­mar, 50, of Guayagua­yare, Ma­yaro. 

The Prime Min­is­ter to­day de­fend­ed his se­ries of high-lev­el meet­ings with en­er­gy gi­ants in Eu­rope, say­ing that it was crit­i­cal that this coun­try have a seat at the de­ci­sion mak­ers' ta­ble.