Par­ents whose ap­pli­ca­tions for the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry’s 2026 school sup­plies and book grants have been ap­proved are ex­pect­ed to re­ceive the grants by Sep­tem­ber 21, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath said yes­ter­day.

Sau­di Ara­bia said Fri­day it shut down a ma­jor pipeline a day af­ter it was at­tacked by drones, and Yemen’s Iran­ian-backed Houthi rebels cap­tured a strate­gic is­land at the south­ern en­trance to the Red Sea, two of­fi­cials said, open­ing a new front in the Iran war.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment Fri­day said that a new Na­tion­al Com­mit­tee on Repa­ra­tions will be ap­point­ed in “due course”.

Cit­i­zens and lawyers seek­ing to pur­sue ap­peals be­fore the Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil will no longer have to pay fees for visas to at­tend hear­ings. 

For­mer pres­i­dent of the An­ju­man Sun­nat ul Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA), Dr Man­soor Ibrahim, has died.

The Ebo­la out­break in Con­go, the world’s fastest-grow­ing out­break of the dis­ease on record, has now spread to sev­en provinces in the African coun­try, lo­cal au­thor­i­ties said. And it’s show­ing no signs of slow­ing down.

Sev­er­al dozen pres­i­den­tial brief­ing doc­u­ments de­clas­si­fied Fri­day, the 25th an­niver­sary of the Sept. 11 at­tacks, de­tail in­tel­li­gence gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials had gath­ered about Osama bin Laden and al-Qai­da lead­ing up to the hi­jack­ings that killed near­ly 3,000 peo­ple and up­end­ed Amer­i­can na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

Amer­i­cans com­mem­o­rat­ed the 25th an­niver­sary of 9/11 on Fri­day, re­mem­ber­ing the shock, the dead and the sweep­ing con­se­quences of the al-Qai­da at­tacks on sym­bols of U.S. might and pros­per­i­ty.

An­oth­er man­i­cou has been blamed for pow­er prob­lems af­fect­ing com­mu­ni­ties in Trinidad, less than a month af­ter T&TEC at­trib­uted a se­ries of elec­tric­i­ty dis­rup­tions to an­i­mal in­ter­fer­ence.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is de­mand­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der ac­count for the re­sults of the State of Emer­gency as the lat­est SOE comes to an end.

Res­i­dents of Tigris Dri­ve, Eden Gar­dens, Bal­main, Cou­va, and the HDC hous­ing de­vel­op­ment at Cal­cut­ta Road No. 2 are hop­ing au­thor­i­ties will ad­dress long-stand­ing prob­lems with an over­grown va­cant lot.

The Ply­mouth/Black Rock elec­toral dis­trict is giv­ing en­tre­pre­neurs in the area a plat­form to sell their prod­ucts through a month­ly farm­ers’ mar­ket at Ad­ven­ture Mi­cro Mall, Ply­mouth.