Now that the Copy­right laws have been amend­ed, the blind com­mu­ni­ty is call­ing for im­me­di­ate ac­cess to over 700,000 books.

Al­most eight hours af­ter pris­on­er Siew “Ram­dass” Per­sad es­caped from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP), Gold­en Grove, yes­ter­day morn­ing - he was re­cap­tured af­ter be­ing de­tained by a pri­vate bus dri­ver in Lopinot as he head­ed for home.

“A to­tal shame” is how Pan Trin­ba­go Pres­i­dent Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore la­belled the treat­ment be­ing met­ed out to Hat­ters Steel Or­ches­tra fol­low­ing on­go­ing re­de­vel­op­ment works at the San Fer­nan­do Wa­ter­front Project.

There is still no con­fir­ma­tion on when the Na­tion­al Plan­ning Au­thor­i­ty will come on stream to re­place the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning Di­vi­sion.