Students will not be spared the increased transportation costs along the East-West corridor that will take effect come March 1 according to President of the Route 2 Maxi Taxi Association, Linus Philip who said his organisation never considered a special fare for schoolchildren.

School officials told The Student Press today that an undisclosed sum of money was stolen from San Juan Senior Comprehensive sometime between last night and early this morning.

There is a need for police patrols around the perimeters of Mt Hope Secondary to monitor students after they are dismissed from school.

Experience had to take a back seat to showmanship today as six-year-old Aaron Duncan clenched the Junior Calypso Monarch title from the grasp of other seasoned competitors who had set their sights on the crown.

Hard work and determination paid off for the St. Augustine Junior Steel Orchestra when they won their ninth National Junior Panaroma title at the Queen's Park Savannah yesterday.

Bishop's High School could take the Trinbago Unified Calypsonian Organisation (TUCO) Junior Calypso Monarch title to the sister isle this year. The odds so far are in their favour.

Another installment of the National Youth Productivity Forum (NYPF) was held yesterday at the Capildeo Learning Resource Centre.

Students across the region maintained a steady performance in the 2009 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) as grades remained on par with those of 2008.

The Education Ministry must get its act together and move to treat with the pigeon invasion at the Marabella Senior Comprehensive school or else teachers would continue to stay away from the classrooms, Peter Wilson, General Secretary of the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) warned today.

The St. Augustine Secondary student who allegedly stabbed her classmate, 15-year-old Shivana Mata, appeared before a magistrate this morning at the Tunapuna Magistrate's Court charged with malicious wounding.