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The medical practice of Education Minister Dr Tim Goopeesingh has been broken into.

Germany’s latest World Cup victory over England will be remembered not for any of the brilliant goals, but for the one that didn’t count.

NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Brigadier John Sandy said yesterday that he would like to see a local taking over the Commissioner of Police (CoP) post.

As he urged supporters who had left the party to ’come back home’, Dr Keith Christopher Rowley began his five-year term as Political Leader of the PNM yesterday, pledging to usher in a new leadership style and a new culture in which criticism, dissent and vigorous intellectual discussion within the party would be encouraged.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday that litter bugs and anyone caught breaking the laws with respect to the environment would face strict penalties in future.

Stating that Political Leader Keith Rowley is already proving to be a hard taskmaster, PNM Chairman Conrad Enill yesterday announced that screening for the Local Government election begins today at Balisier House, Port of Spain, and continues throughout this week.

THE Police Service Commission will have to, over the next two days, decide on whether acting Police Commissioner James Philbert should step aside and allow one of three deputy commissioners-elect to act as the country’s police commissioner until Parliament approves a nominee for the post.

EIGHT PERSONS were murdered between Friday and late yesterday, pushing the murder figure for the year to 268.

THREE people were killed in Tobago yesterday morning, as the carnage on the roads continued.

VALENCIA police shot and killed a man during an alleged exchange of gunfire near the Valencia Government Secondary School during the early hours of yesterday.

Minister of Community Development Nizam Baksh hopped onto a motorcycle and rode through his constituency yesterday, where he cleaned clogged drains, cleared debris and handed out plants.

MINISTER OF JUSTICE Hubert Volney is on the mend and even cracking jokes, Minister of Health Therese Baptiste-Cornelis said yesterday. However, Volney was not ’bumped up’ so he could get his open heart surgery done ahead of anyone.

ATTORNEY General Anand Ramlogan has expressed outrage over the alleged failure of the Integrity Commission to ensure that the assets of the Light House of the Lord Jesus Christ church located in the Heights of Guanapo in Arima, were protected from looters over the past few weeks.

President of the Medical Council of Trinidad and Tobago, Prof Zulaika Ali, says local health institutions are now run by too many retirees and foreign personnel.

Cameraman robbed

THE Asians coming to Trinidad as part of this recent wave of migrations will find that those who came before them have left their mark and are now firmly part of this cosmopolitan nation.

Contrary to when he declared ’I am the king’ during a committee meeting in the last Parliament, Wade Mark, speaking for the first time as House Speaker on Friday, told parliamentarians, ’I am your servant. I shall serve this House diligently and be a Speaker for all,’ he said, adding that his foremost duty was to uphold the Constitution as well as the rules and conventions of the House, and to preside and manage the affairs of the House with complete impartiality.

A police officer who simultaneously faced criminal and civil charges for assaulting a civilian was maliciously prosecuted and must be compensated, a High Court judge has ruled.

Over 17, 000 pupils who sat the Secondary Entrance Assessment examination will have to begin registration for their respective secondary schools, starting from today. They are reminded to carry three passport size photographs, their original computer generated birth certificate and their original SEA slip. Today, the Express continues publication of the schools’ registration dates.

EXPANSION, upgrading and maintenance work at the Piarco and Crown Point International Airports have been identified as critical to improving passenger and air cargo services at these facilities.