UNDEFEATED women’s world boxing champion Giselle Salandy, was dressed in her red, white and black boxing robe and wore her gloves as she lay in a casket at yesterday’s emotionally charged public viewing at Belgrove’s Funeral Home, Coffee Street in San Fernando.

THREE persons including an eight-year-old boy were left homeless after fire destroyed their Marabella home early yesterday morning.

CARS believed to have been stolen and which were confiscated during a police raid yesterday in Central Trinidad, are being kept at the Barataria Police Station and the Vehicle Maintainence Corporation of TT (VMCOTT) compound off the Beetham Highway.

STUDENTS of Guapo Government Primary School spent the second day of the new school term protesting with their parents outside the school, demanding a new school and also calling for classes to be held at a nearby community centre because of the deplorable condition of the school.

THE grand launch of Carni-val 2009, scheduled for today, has been postponed to Friday, acting Trinidad Unified Calyp-sonians Organisation (TUCO) president Eric Taylor confirmed yesterday.

FAMILY members of local boxing star, Giselle “Ninky” Salandy, are appealing for the return of Salandy’s digital camera which she used to capture happy moments at an annual family gathering, two days before she died.

Police yesterday raided the Port-of-Spain and San Fernando offices of the Licensing Division and seized several documents as they probed a racket in which stolen vehicles are being re-registered by licensing employees.

SOON AFTER regaining consciousness in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Port-of-Spain General Hospital, national footballer Tamar Watson asked questions about the condition of her best friend, boxer Giselle Salandy.

SCHOOLGIRL Devika Lalman planned to celebrate her sweet sixteen birthday this Saturday. Yesterday, grieving relatives were busy planning her funeral.

THE ISSUING of a statement on the death of boxing star Giselle Salandy was among one of the first official acts of Prime Minister Patrick Manning as he yesterday resumed his duties for the first time since undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous left kidney at a Cuban hospital less than three weeks ago.

THE first day of the first school term in the new year got off to a shaky start yesterday at several schools with teachers leaving the compound of at least two schools, saying the Education Facilities Company Limited (EFCL) needed to improve school conditions.

THE FIRST day of examinations for January’s Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC) did not pass without hiccups yesterday throughout the country.

Potts recalled awaking at 7 am and immediately asking for Salandy only to be told she had left to go out. He said that shortly after, he received a telephone call that the boxer was seriously hurt in an accident and when he arrived at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital, he discovered that the medical team could not resuscitate her.

THE murder toll for this year rose to seven following three murders between Saturday night and yesterday. Among the three victims is a 15-year-old girl whose body was found in a rice field in Caroni yesterday.

AFTER the festive Christmas holidays, thousands of the nation’s children are set to return to classes today, for the start of the first school term for 2009.

AFTER invoking the wrath of thousands of senior citizens who last week got the wrong sum of money in their old age grants, officials from the Social Development Ministry yesterday assured they are working to correct the issue in the shortest possible time.

Born: January 25, 1987

GOVERNMENT has agreed to underwrite all expenses for Wednesday’s funeral of female boxing sensation Giselle Salandy, who died following a vehicular accident yesterday morning along the Beetham Highway.

Three days into the new year and the flood gates have opened with four murders recorded yesterday.

OLYMPIC silver medallist Richard Thompson made a much appreciated appearance at yesterday’s Award Ceremony of the National Amateur Athletic Association (NAAA) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Port-of-Spain.