POLICE officers gave a stern warning to a young mother who abandoned her one-year-old daughter and left her with a complete stranger along the Brian Lara Promenade in Port of Spain, so she could collect money and purchase a box of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) at a nearby fast food outlet.
THERE is no shortfall of spaces at secondary schools for incoming students after the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SE A) examination, Chief Education Officer Harrilal Seecharan said yesterday.
STUDENTS who will sit the 2018 Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exams will get more marks in the essay portion of the exam if they write the essay in cursive handwriting rather than in print.
CENTRAL Bank governor Dr Alvin Hilaire has acknowledged the local foreign exchange market is in disequilibrium but was still optimistic, given recent major investments and exploration activity in the energy sector, this year things can get better. Hilaire said the country was still in early transition mode as it comes to terms with the drastic change in oil prices and complicated by energy output, thus leading to a depletion of the foreign exchange supply.
TWO MEN who fell asleep stark naked, after sexually assaulting two sisters for several hours in a San Juan house, were awakened by police after the victims sneaked out of the house and alerted the officers. The men, both in their early 20s, claim they were set up by the sisters.
A DAY after being robbed and threatened with kidnap, Fr Clyde Harvey was back on the job officiating at the Feast of St Anthony at the LHospice on Observatory Street, Port of Spain. Harvey was robbed at gunpoint on Monday morning at the St Martin de Porres RC church, Gonzales, Belmont.