CRUELTY TO CHILDREN

POLICE officers last night charged Arlene Blackman — Principal of Blackman’s Private School in Maraval — with two counts of Cruelty to Children, under the Children’s Act, Chap 46:01, Section III(I), for allegedly placing the head of two students in a toilet bowl at her school and flushing it.

THE POLICE Service Commission (PSC) at its meeting yesterday called on Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs for an updated report on the leasing of a light aircraft for the Police Service.

SPANISH company, Agbar, has been awarded a $5.2 million consultancy contract for four months of work by the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to make recommendations over the future operations of WASA, the Spanish firm announced yesterday.

A man in custody at the La Horquetta Police Station has reportedly failed in an attempt to commit suicide in his cell.

CEDROS and Icacos cattle owners were yesterday granted a reprieve by the Ministry of Food Production to secure their livestock following Wednesday’s roundup of stray and wild cattle in the sprawling coconut estates and dense forests by Defence Force personnel and Ministry officers.

One of the more openly critical voices against the appointment of Chief Justice Ivor Archie and Justice of Appeal Wendell Kangaloo to the ranks of Senior Counsel last year, Karl Hudson-Phillips QC, has been appointed, along with 11 other attorneys, to review whether the appointment of Senior Counsel should be abolished, or for the appointments and(...)

AN interpretation of the local Land Tenant Act which protects tenants who, already using land for a single purpose, but wish to put it to other use, such as erecting a house, has been endorsed by the Privy Council.

THE Health Ministry yesterday issued a media release stating that its Insect Vector Control Division office for Victoria East/Nariva/ Mayaro received a report of one case of dengue on January 26. As part of the investigation into the case the IVCD Unit visited the patient’s home on January 27 and the patient’s school St Thomas RC in Mayaro on Janua(...)

THE NORTH-West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) is working on a system to ensure that doctors work the hours for which are being paid, NWRHA chairman Dr Edison Haqq said in an interview yesterday.

CABINET yesterday agreed to support a number of initiatives designed to celebrate Trinidad and Tobago’s 50th anniversary of Independence which will be rolled out after Carnival.

SWIFT action by detectives of the Arouca CID between Tuesday and Wednesday morning led to the arrest of five persons, four of whom were caught in the act of breaking into a Trincity house.