Months in­to COVID-19 pan­dem­ic in T&T, Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly plead­ed with cit­i­zens to spon­sor lap­tops and tablets to 65,000 stu­dents who could not af­ford de­vices for on­line school, which was the new nor­mal in the ed­u­ca­tion sec­tor.

Two days af­ter re­ject­ing Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Com­pa­ny’s (Pa­tri­ot­ic) pro­pos­al to ac­quire the for­mer as­sets of Petrotrin, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert said the Cab­i­net has agreed to give the com­pa­ny an­oth­er 15 days to se­cure $US500 mil­lion.

A 56-year-old moth­er of two was mauled to death by her pet Rot­tweil­er at her D’Abadie home on Tues­day night.

Fol­low­ing Tues­day’s dead­ly at­tack of a Rot­tweil­er on its own­er, an­i­mal rights ac­tivist and pres­i­dent of An­i­mals Alive Kath­eryn Cleghorn is urg­ing cit­i­zens not to ma­lign large breed dogs like the one in ques­tion. 

Far­ley Au­gus­tine says a threat is­sued by the PDP Po­lit­i­cal Leader Wat­son Duke to the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al needs to be tak­en in con­text.

The To­ba­go Coun­cil of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment(PNM) wants to re­peat the feat it ac­com­plished in the 2013 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s(THA) elec­tions and win all 12 elec­toral dis­tricts in the Jan­u­ary 25 THA elec­tions.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Lim­it­ed says they have com­plet­ed ne­go­ti­a­tions with the gov­ern­ment for a new ex­plo­ration and pro­duc­tion li­cense. The new li­cense will al­low for the sin­gle largest off­shore ex­plo­ration and pro­duc­tion block on the west coast of the is­land. The area cov­ers just over 96,000 hectares of off­shore acreage. With this new agree­ment, the Gov­ern­ment will ben­e­fit from pay­ments by Her­itage amount­ing to close to 100 mil­lion dol­lars over 6 years.

A street ven­dor who al­leged­ly as­sault­ed two po­lice of­fi­cers while they were try­ing to ar­rest her has been grant­ed a cash bail of $10,000.

A truck dri­ver who al­leged­ly beat his wife and stabbed his 10-year-old daugh­ter dur­ing a do­mes­tic dis­pute has been grant­ed $150,000 bail.

A Niger­ian na­tion­al caught try­ing to ex­port co­caine in fish­ing reels to the Unit­ed King­dom has been jailed for 30 months.

A woman, her daugh­ter and her daugh­ter’s friend have plead­ed guilty to mur­der­ing a man from St Au­gus­tine in 2006.

A 47-year-old prison of­fi­cer, at­tached to the Gold­en Grove Prison, has been or­dered not to threat­en or abuse his wife in any­way af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore an Ari­ma mag­is­trate last Fri­day charged with as­sault oc­ca­sion­ing ac­tu­al bod­i­ly harm.