The hand­ing over by Am­bas­sador Joseph Mon­del­lo to Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh took place Wednes­day at the NIPDEC Cen­tral Ware­house, Air­ways Road, Ch­aguara­mas.

For­mer FI­FA vice-pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er has been or­dered to pay a US$79 mil­lion penal­ty stem­ming from the FI­FA bribery scan­dal.

De­spite T&T be­ing giv­en a down­grade from Rat­ing Agency Stan­dard and Poor's, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is as­sur­ing the coun­try that its busi­ness and its fu­ture are in good hands.

There are a num­ber of breach­es at the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion's Orop­une Gar­dens de­vel­op­ment in Pi­ar­co, hence the evic­tion of a ten­ant who was op­er­at­ing a hard­ware and com­mer­cial shop there ear­ly Wednes­day.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion has is­sued a state­ment on the ac­tion it took this morn­ing at Orop­une Gar­dens fol­low­ing com­plaints from res­i­dents about ris­ing crime in the area and oth­er il­lic­it ac­tiv­i­ties.

That's ac­cord­ing to TTPS Road Safe­ty Co­or­di­na­tor Brent Bat­son at the 6th An­nu­al Road Saftey Awards cer­e­mo­ny to­day.

A Princes Town busi­ness­man has shot and killed a ban­dit who at­tempt­ed to rob his su­per­mar­ket around 3 am on Wednes­day.

A busi­ness­man is cur­rent­ly be­ing evict­ed from a prop­er­ty at Orop­une Gar­dens in Pi­ar­co by of­fi­cials of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion and the po­lice.

Al­though T&T has been down­grad­ed by in­ter­na­tion­al cred­it rat­ing agency Stan­dard and Poor's, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is as­sur­ing the coun­try that its busi­ness and its fu­ture is in good hands.

Mo­torists will not ben­e­fit from a de­ci­sion by the Min­istry of Fi­nance to ex­empt Paria Fu­els Trad­ing com­pa­ny from pay­ing more than $382 mil­lion in Val­ue Added Tax.

Since sur­fac­ing on Face­book, the once pop­u­lar old board game Lu­do, has filled a well of nos­tal­gia for many, but it means more for 34-year-old Kester Ben­jamin of Beetham Gar­dens who sees it as a way of uni­fy­ing his com­mu­ni­ty.