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Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba brace for Matthew
The course of Hurricane Matthew has placed Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba in the path of potentially devastating winds and rain.Matthew was upgraded to a hurricane on Thursday, growing in intensity reaching...
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$46m cut for Judiciary
The budgetary allocation to the Judiciary of T&T has seen a drastic decrease. According to the Draft Estimates of Expenditure 2017, there was a cutback of just over $46 million.The estimates for...
View ArticleMaxi drivers to discuss price hike
President of the Route Two Maxi-Taxi Association Linus Phillip says its members still have to meet to discuss raising fares at after an increase in the price of diesel was announced by Finance Minister...
View ArticleLaw Association on passing of Allan Alexander, SC: He was a true patriot
The Law Association of T&T (LATT) has sent condolences to the family of former independent senator Allan Joseph Alexander.In a press release yesterday, president of the association Reginald Armour...
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Eight-year-old now seizure free
Valdeen Shears-NeptuneEight-year-old Kaj Romain is in good spirits and healing after brain surgery to lessen the frequency of his epileptic seizures has been a success.The aspiring firefighter and his...
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Man chops wife, hangs self
A Chaguanas man hanged himself yesterday after chopping his wife about the body.Police said around 6.50 am, Lyle Herbert, 58, a WASA employee of Baldeo Avenue, Longdenville, chopped his estranged wife...
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Rich can find loopholes to evade taxes—Watson
Even though he expressed support for the new 30 per cent tax bracket for people earning $1 million and more per year, economist Dr Patrick Watson said yesterday that he was unsure whether the...
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London on budget: Tobagonians are resilient
Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Orville London says a change in economic circumstances is never easy to accept but Tobagonians are resilient people.He said the THA was treated...
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WASA cuts back on rentals and contracts
The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has instituted two measures that have begun to save the cash-strapped company millions of dollars.Chairman of WASA, Romney Thomas, said the authority had...
View ArticleMurdered woman’s mother: I got a call from suspected killer
Hours after murdering Frieda Goodridge outside her business on Saturday, a Mt Hope man telephoned the victim's mother but before he could say his piece she ended the conversation.According to police...
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Trinis in Jamaica brace for Matthew
Trinis living in Jamaica got a couple more hours to prepare for Hurricane Matthew yesterday, as the category four storm slowed its pace and changed its catastrophic strike towards Haiti on Monday night...
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No bail for third man held in $1m PriceSmart robbery
A third man has been charged for the $1.5 million robbery at PriceSmart’s Mausica branch in July.Kurt Cupid, 44, of Orchard Drive, Moka, Maraval, appeared before Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar in...
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Family wants full-scale probe
Relatives of a 36-year-old worker who was fatally struck by a steel beam at his workplace, yesterday, are calling for a full-scale investigation into the incidentShane Diaram, a lorryman at Dansteel...
View ArticlePM’s comment on weaning misrepresented
The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) yesterday sought to clear up what it called a misrepresentation of statements Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley made at a function in Laventille last weekend, as he...
View ArticleGulf View challenges $18m lawsuit
Gulf View Medical is challenging the decision of a High Court Judge to award former finance minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira $18 million in compensation for negligence in the death of her husband, who...
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1,800 signatures secured
The group Stand Up T&T has started a petition calling on Finance Minister Colm Imbert to repeal the seven per cent online tax introduced in the 2016/2017 budget last Friday. The group started the...
View ArticleColm at chamber forum: More cuts will bring less jobs
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday further cuts to the 2016/2017 budget may result in adverse effects on the economy and therefore more cuts could not have been done. Further cuts, he said,...
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Al-Rawi: Need to ‘follow the money’
Focus on "following the money" and not the scraps of crime.This was the strong appeal made by Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi to Crime Stoppers yesterday as he urged the organisation to place greater...
View ArticleArcelorMittal fined $1.6m for pollution
Cashed-strapped multinational steel producer ArcelorMittal has been ordered to pay the Point Lisas Industrial Port Development Corporation Ltd (Plipdeco) $1.6 million in compensation for failing to...
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Slain prisons officer’s dad as Govt okays compensation: It can’t bring back a...
Relatives of 16 members of the protective services killed in the line of duty will now benefit from the $1 million compensative package from the Government after Cabinet approved the payout yesterday....
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