Estrada tenders resignation
US Ambassador John Estrada is expecting the American population to “unite” following the election of Republican candidate Donald Trump early yesterday.“Basically we had a big election and the whole...
View ArticleImbert sorry for offensive remarks
“I unreservedly apologise to all.” That apology came yesterday from Finance Minister Colm Imbert following his recent controversial statements on “wage restraint” and “no riots yet” he made at last...
View ArticleWoman stabbed, beaten to death: Suspect held by standpipe
Minutes after residents of Walcott Lane, Enterprise, found the battered, nude body of one of their neighbours in a track yesterday, they saw another neighbour eating a piece of bake and pumpkin while...
View ArticleCops reveal new trend: Car thieves target AD wagons, Lancers
Despites an overall decrease in the number of cars stolen between last year and this year, police statistics show that there is an increase in theft of two specific brands: Mitsubishi Lancers and...
View ArticleRohan: Potholes to be mended in 48 hours
The mending of potholes within 48 hours of receiving the report will be part of a coming aggressive Government Infrastructure and Rehabilitation Programme. Citizens will see a noticeable improvement in...
View ArticleObama to help Trump succeed
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama and Donald Trump put acerbic rows and profound differences aside in a 90-minute transition meeting at the White House yesterday, hoping to quell fears about the health of the...
View ArticleRowley ready to re-affirm US ties
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has extended congratulations to United States President-elect Donald Trump.In a letter to Trump in the wake of his sweeping victory over Hillary Clinton on Tuesday,...
View ArticleBaby bones found in La Brea
Human bones, believed to be that of a baby which died in March but was never buried, were discovered in La Brea on Thursday evening. Officers from Homicide Region Three, acting on information,...
View ArticleCourts robbed
Thieves carted away close to $100,000 in electronic items from Court's Trinidad Limited, located at High Street and Chancery Lane, San Fernando this morning. The bandits smashed a large glass window...
View ArticleArchbishop to host special mass for 133 inmates
Archbishop Joseph Harris will be hosting a special Mass for incarcerated persons at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception tomorrow. Over 130 inmates at the nation's prisons have been invited to the...
View ArticlePolice arrest Bulgarian on credit card fraud, card skimming charges
Police have arrested a Bulgarian national in connection with credit card fraud and card skimming.The arrest was made by members of the Fraud Squad Unit last evening at a Maraval guest house.According...
View ArticleGATE shuts on recovering drug addict’s dreams
Michael Forde, 64, will no longer be able to pursue his dream of studying for a bachelor's degree in social work.Forde was among several students who graduated yesterday at the UWI Open Campus Awards...
View Article‘Cops’ rob Chinese businessman of $.4m
Senior police officers in the Southern Division were last evening reviewing CCTV footage, to determine if three men who held up a Chinese proprietor, beat and robbed him of close to half of a million...
View ArticleGhastly find
Desperate to conceal the corpse of her teenaged daughter’s baby born out of wedlock, a La Brea grandmother hid the body for eight months inside a secret room of a La Brea house, before it was found by...
View ArticleContainers stuck on port
Due to extortion by Haitian port officials, none of the containers of relief items shipped to hurricane-devastated Haiti by NGO Is There Not a Cause (ITNAC) have been cleared as yet and citizens in...
View ArticleGas fumes sicken Marabella residents
One day after Energy Minister Franklin Khan expressed ‘disgust’ with Petrotrin’s response to its many oil spills and called on them to put their house in order, five residents from a fenceline...
View Article$63m worth of drugs dumped
Over the last five years some $63 million of taxpayers’ money has gone down the drain as pharmaceuticals ordered for public health institutions had to be discarded because they had expired.This was one...
View ArticleKamla: Khan’s wife recipient of HDC millions
“Grasping at straws.”This is how Energy Minister Franklin Khan described allegations made by the Opposition Leader that his wife’s company was the recipient of $55 million in contracts from the Housing...
View ArticleTTNGL’s comprehensive profit more than doubles
TTNGL last week reported an 11.4 per cent decline in its after-tax profit for the nine-month period ending September 30, 2016.Excluding the impact of currency translation, the company’s profit for the...
View ArticleSando burgesses: PNM will win
San Fernando is the second largest municipality after Chaguanas and comprises nine electoral districts. In 2013, the People’s National Movement (PNM) regained control of the corporation.On Friday, the...
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