NO ONE ABOVE THE LAW

WHILE sacked Minister in the Ministry of National Security Collin Partap “requested” the presence of Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams on the basis of a “confrontational situation” with police officers outside of the Zen nightclub on Sunday morning, a Ministry of National Security probe found there was never any such confrontation, Min(...)

WITHIN the space of 48 hours, four persons — including a ten-year-old boy — were murdered within metres of each other along Dorata Street, Laventille, leaving residents of that street in a state of terror.

Acting Commissioner of Police (CoP) Stephen Williams was right to take a hands-on approach to the investigation into allegations that former Minister in the National Security Ministry Collin Partap refused to take a breathalyser test early Sunday morning after police suspected he was under the influence of alcohol.

THE Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) has put its seal of approval on the once controversial Continuous Assessment for Primary school students (CAP), now that the Education Ministry has revised the assessment, taking into consideration advice given by the union.

COLLIN Partap’s lawyer, Jagdeo Singh, whom Partap called early Sunday morning when he was being asked by police to take a breathalyser test, yesterday said there is “no case” against Partap as he passed the breath test which was eventually administered.

Sunday August 26

KYLE MUNGALDEEN, was looking forward to start the new school term, next week, and returning to classes and classmates at Gasparillo Secondary School. Instead, it was many of his classmates and other friends who turned out yesterday at his funeral service at his home in Gasparillo.

THE Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) yesterday slammed the Ministry of Education for its repair and renovation of public schools during the July/August vacation, saying repairing 77 out of more than 200 schools in need of such work, was not good enough.