SAMUEL BARKOYE, ROVIN LALL TOP NGSA
Samuel Barkoye
Samuel Barkoye of North Georgetown Primary School; and Rovin Lall of Stella Maris Primary School
Chief Education Officer, Marcel Hutson
Rovin Lall
have topped the country at the 2020 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA). Both students attained
525 marks and have earned a spot at Queen’s College. The highest attainable mark was
528. More than 14,000 students wrote the NGSA after it was postponed due to
the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief Education Officer, Marcel Hutson said
improvements were seen in the subject areas of English, Social Studies, and Science.
AG asks State to dismiss Christopher Jones’s lawsuit
Attorney General, Anil Nandlall
Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, has issued a statement in response to Opposition Parliamentarian, Christopher Jones’s, lawsuit which was filed against Acting Commissioner of Police, Nigel Hoppie; Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum, Inspector, Rodwell
Sarrabo; Assistant Superintendent of Police, Chibanauth Singh; Corporal Singh and Attorney General Anil Nandlall. Jones claimed that his constitutional rights were breached in an unlawful search and seizure, conducted on his property on August 20, last, and his
subsequent arrest. In his statement, Nandlall noted that Hoppie and Blanhum were wrongly named as defendants; No Order of Court preventing the search was served to the other defendants; and that Jones and several persons that gathered around the residence were abusive and
threatening to the officers. Jones was arrested and taken to Brickdam Police Station on August 21, last, He was later released on bail after spending a night and the better part of the next day in the Diamond lockups. Nandlall contended that a police officer has the power to arrest, without a warrant, anyone whom he suspects, with reasonable cause, is about to commit an offence or whom he suspects has already committed such an offence. The arrest is also legitimate even if the offence was not actually committed. Nandlall stated that Jones is not entitled to any damages at all
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Christopher Jones
and the lawsuit should be dismissed for being frivolous and vexatious. Police were sent to Jones’s home to recover government assets valued at $4.084M. The assets were 18 barber chairs and an air conditioning unit. The items
were obtained by Jones through the Sustainable Livelihood and Entrepreneurial Development (SLED) programme for construction of a barbershop. The items had not been used yet and were being stored at Jones’s home.
