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Liquor mart fire-bombed
For the second time this week, arsonists have fire-bombed a San Fernando business, leaving behind hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.Police believe the arsonists wanted to loot Stackhouse...
View ArticleChild molester arrested
A 36-year-old construction worker from Arima was arrested by police shortly after he fondled a 15-year-old school girl in the car park of a fast food outlet at St Helena Junction on Thursday...
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No joy for the holidays
The sound of laughter will be absent at the home of Cyon Paul this Christmas.Instead, his mother, Safiya Williams, intends to drown her grief of losing the nine-year-old in a bottle of alcohol.Paul was...
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300 sacked as CCP unit scrapped ...municipal officers ready to fill void
Municipal Police officers say they are “excited at the opportunity” being given to them by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to take up the mantle of community policing.This as government moves to scrap...
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Petrotrin acted on its own
Finance Minister Colm Imbert says Petrotrin acted unilaterally and never informed the Government that it was starting negotiations for the 2014-2017 period with the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union...
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Not leaving my children alone
Busy Christmas shoppers in Port-of-Spain took a few moments off their hectic schedule to stop and look at an “adorable” bundle — a little girl swaddled in a blanket lying in a trolley cart at the...
View ArticleLoud explosions send John, sister scampering
Former Housing Development Corporation (HDC) chairman Jearlean John found herself sprinting across the Queen’s Park Savannah, scaling barbed wire walls and hiding behind trees and bushes yesterday as...
View ArticleKamla: Never despair despite challenges
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is urging citizens “to never despair” despite all the challenges the country is facing.In her Christmas greetings to the nation, she said she knew it was a...
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A house for Christmas
“Finally, for one night we will not have to get wet,” exclaimed Neesha Wattley as she stepped into her brand new Housing Development Corporation (HDC) home at Eden Gardens, Freeport, with her husband...
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PM: Remain optimistic, crime our highest priority
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is calling on citizens to remain optimistic about the future of this country.Rowley made the statement in his Christmas message to the nation.He said he was glad that in...
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Scratch bomb granny pleads for help
Today is not a day of merriment for Sally-Ann Cuffie. It has been about two months since she can no longer use her hands after her fingers were blown off by an illegal explosive.The 48-year-old...
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Woman dies in accident
Plans for a fun family get-together for the Christmas holidays turned into a gathering for a wake when a Barrackpore mother was killed in vehicular accident which left her husband, two children and...
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Thousands lose jobs in 2016
Characterized by untimely deaths, insane politics, and strange occurrences, people around the world see 2016 as the year the world lost its collective mind.For many people locally, 2016’s habit of...
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Postal inspector missing 27 years
With $40 in his wallet, postal inspector Mohammed Rojan-Ali left his Princes Town home on June 23, 1989, and never returned.Although 27 years have passed, his wife, Shairoon, 73, speaks of her “first...
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Bleak Christmas for Matelot, Grande Reviere villagers
RALPH BANWARIEMatelot and Grande Riviere villagers will experience a bleak Christmas this year. They have no source of income to purchase curtains, bed sheets, decoration and in some instances, they...
View ArticleTCL directors withhold company’s share valuation
An independent director of TCL has defended the decision by the regional cement producer not to provide a price range that the company consider to be a fair offer in its rejection of the $4.50-a-share...
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6 Christmas Day babies in PoS
SHALIZA HASSANALI In the first quarter of 2017, the Ministry of Health intends to roll out screening for 1,000 pregnant women for diabetes on a “trial basis.” Thereafter, the figures will increase to...
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Pernell wants disclosure on TCL share value
Minority shareholders’ rights advocate Peter Permell does not agree with the decision by Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) directors to accept a price range for its shares. In fact he said a valuation of...
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Two births in Sando
The surprise birth of a healthy bouncing baby boy on Christmas Day was the best Christmas gift in the world for a young San Fernando couple. Celeste Ahay, 21, a student, and Matthew Cooper, 21, an...
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Sinanan promises continued relief to Brasso Seco
Residents of Brasso Seco have been promised they will be given continuous relief until normalcy returns in the wake of recent flooding there.This comes from Minister of Works and Transport Rohan...
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