Part of the large crowd which assembled yesterday outside the Mark Benschop Foundation where school items (book-bags, pencils, school clothing, reading books, exercise books, etc) were donated to over 400 students. Some of the items had been donated to the foundation by Staples Office Supplies in the USA, Bobby and Kamini of B&K Fashion on Regent Street, The Haynes Store, Cellular Plus, Odel Tait and others. Also, US$100 was donated to Malica Hercules (a young girl with a cleft lip and cranial damage) by a woman at a US university.

The newly commissioned First Assembly of God multi-purpose building in Wortmanville from which programmes will be organized to help disadvantaged youths and adults by providing skills training and mentorship, among other things.

The good side of the Africanised bee – pollination: An Africanised bee approaches a flower yesterday at a North Ruimveldt garden. (Photo by Jules Gibson)