Keen to help another newb with the news tutorial?

[eluser]jprateragg[/eluser]
I'm assuming this is line 11?

Code:

public function index()

There's something making this line choke. Is it possible some "invisible" character is between the closing bracket for your __construct() function and the "public" word? Try deleting the white space between the closing bracket and the start of your index function and see if that fixes it. Everything looks correct.