Ahead of the school term, five hun­dred chil­dren re­ceived school sup­plies as the group Pay­ing It For­ward for Je­sus Inc held a Chil­dren’s Fair and Back-to-School Give­away in Pe­nal on Fri­day.

A pen­sion­er who was at­tacked and beat­en with a wheel span­ner in an at­tempt­ed rob­bery in San­ta Cruz ear­ly yes­ter­day, turned the ta­bles on his at­tack­ers, when he used his li­censed firearm, killing two and send­ing a third in­to hid­ing

A Diego Mar­tin man was ar­rest­ed on Thurs­day night af­ter, of­fi­cers raid­ed a busi­ness prop­er­ty and his home and con­fis­cat­ed over $20 mil­lion worth of nar­cotics, in­clud­ing mar­i­jua­na and co­caine.

The Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) and the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) have ex­pressed their full sup­port for the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion.

With the count­down on to the Gov­ern­ment’s first Bud­get since as­sum­ing of­fice, two of the na­tion’s largest union bod­ies are press­ing to see the ten per cent wage of­fer on the bar­gain­ing ta­ble in the com­ing fi­nan­cial year.

New­ly ap­point­ed di­rec­tor of the South­west Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA), Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon, has is­sued a warn­ing to doc­tors at pub­lic fa­cil­i­ties un­der his purview, say­ing, “Shape up or ship out.”

A Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) al­der­man in the Gov­ern­ment-con­trolled Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion has raised con­cern over non-pay­ment of salaries and goods and ser­vices for Ju­ly.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says there have been no­table im­prove­ments by lo­cal stu­dents in this year’s Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) and Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) ex­ams, with the over­all pass rates and sub­ject-spe­cif­ic re­sults show­ing “sus­tained high per­for­mance.”

A Hin­du spir­i­tu­al leader has been killed and his wife in­jured af­ter they were am­bushed in their ve­hi­cle on Thurs­day night while on their way to pro­vide spir­i­tu­al as­sis­tance in Cara­pichaima.

Po­lice said lo­cal divers from Ba­lan­dra re­trieved the body of An­drew Clarke, 35, of Ackra­bali Street, Mal­abar, Ari­ma, around 8.15 yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A vet­er­an San Fer­nan­do at­tor­ney has been com­mit­ted to stand tri­al for al­leged­ly de­fraud­ing the State of $52,000 in stamp du­ty for a prop­er­ty.

Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Gre­go­ry Aboud says the man who brave­ly chased af­ter a thief in down­town Port-of-Spain and made a cit­i­zen’s ar­rest is an ex­am­ple of what stand-your-ground should be.