HOURS after over 18,000 primary school students sat the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam yesterday, Chief Education Officer Harrilal Seecharan announced that three questions from the exam, totalling four marks, will not be marked due to errors on the paper.
THERE ARE no secrets to success, you have to work for it if you really want it, this was the advice of football icon, Tobago- born Dwight Yorke to Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) students of the Patience Hill Government Primary School yesterday.
NEWSDAYS Editor in Chief Jones P. Madeira was on Wednesday night celebrated for his outstanding and pioneering contribution to the media industry.
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert yesterday said there is no truth to claims by the Opposition that people will have to pay property taxes for 2016 and 2017. Imbert also said local government corporations in Trinidad cannot rely only on the collection of property taxes for their funding because there would be a shortfall of almost $2 billion. Imbert made these points at the post-Cabinet news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Anns.
THE thrill of completing the first defining examination of their lives was so much for some SEA students that many could not remember a word of what they wrote only moments earlier in the exam.
CABINET will seek detailed information from State-owned TSTT about its share purchase agreement to acquire 100 percent of Massy Communications Limited for $255 million.
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert yesterday condemned the Opposition for trying to frighten squatters into believing they would have to pay exorbitant property taxes. Imbert issued his condemnation during the post-Cabinet news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Anns, as he and Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi explained that squatters would only pay property taxes once they are determined by law to be property owners.
THE headless corpse of a man. was found in the bushes of Ste. Madeleine yesterday morning.