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UNC Senator calls on Al-Rawi to revisit Children’s Act
Temporary Opposition Senator Dr Waffie Mohammed yesterday shot down Attorney General Faris Al-Rawis’ proposal to have the minimum age of Muslims marriages adjusted from 12 to 18, stating that the...
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Snr Supts on firing of colleagues: We support our CoP
Three of the seven remaining divisional commanders say they are in full agreement with the drastic stance taken by their leader, acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams, who on Tuesday told two of...
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AG: 3,478 child marriages in 20 years
Between 1996 and 2016, the Registrar General recorded 3,478 child marriages, with almost 98 per cent being females.Further, marriage certificates showed that some of them were girls as young as 11 and...
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Senior cop: Emailgate ongoing
Several members of the watchdog group Fixin’ T&T stood outside the Police Administration building in Port-of-Spain yesterday bearing placards which questioned the status of various ongoing probes...
View ArticleWarning from PNM’s Chief Secretary nominee: Don’t touch airbridge subsidy
The man earmarked by the People’s National Movement (PNM) to become the Chief Secretary of the Tobgao House of Assembly has sent a warning to Caribbean Airlines (CAL) that they would have a battle on...
View ArticlePanorama 2017 goes on
A compromise has been reached between protesting pan players and the executive of Pan Trinbago during Tuesday’s four-hour meeting at City Hall Port-of-Spain to host the Panorama 2017...
View ArticleFormer minister on dismissal of non-performing cops: Williams should be fired...
Intelligence sources have revealed that there are some rumblings taking place within the executive of the Police Service.It is also believed that there may be a political directive that is driving and...
View ArticleJSC identifies Petrotrin, NGC, facing issues
The Petroleum Company of T&T (Petrotrin) is one of the country’s three largest State Enterprises identified by the Joint Select Committee (JSC) of Parliament to be facing major Management and...
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Divestment an option
A three-month strike at Petrotrin would have resulted in a loss of close to $500 million for the debt-ridden energy company but would have inflicted far more damage on the T&T economy, Prime...
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Prime Minister's address to the nation
Good evening fellow citizens.Please permit me to begin this short address by extending to each and every one of you a bright, productive, safe and prosperous 2017.Early in December it was my initial...
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RBC: Strategic plan was shared with staff
RBC Royal Bank of T&T Ltd confirmed yesterday that it has offered Voluntary Separation or VSEP and Voluntary Early Retirement programmes to specific groups of employees within its T&T...
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We’re being used as scapegoats
The two senior police officers who have been told to take early retirement because they “have not made any significant contribution towards the Police Service improving its performance in 2016” say...
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President’s House employees in conflict of interest will be fired
If any employee at the Office of the President is found to be engaged in a conflict of interest situation, he/she will be displaced.That is according to Gregory Serrette, who is the Secretary to...
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JSC report questions NGC spending
The National Gas Company (NGC) has been asked to question why its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Programmes increased by $190 million for the past five years.According to the report released by...
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He was coaxed into killing
Relatives of an 18-year-old Morvant teen who is now on the run from the police after stabbing a relative to death on Tuesday afternoon, say he may have been egged on by peers to retaliate violently...
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Singer under fire for recording video at temple
A Chutney artiste has come under heavy fire for desecrating the grounds of a world-famous Hindu temple in Carapichaima by filming a music video for his 2017 Chutney song on the compound without...
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OWTU must change Monday morning method of battle
National Petroleum Marketing Company (NP) chairman Sahid Hosein said the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) has to change the old paradigm of confrontation every Monday morning and to stop the...
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Union wants Balgobin removed from Angostura
For a second day this week the Seamen and Waterfront Workers Trade Union (SWWTU) protested outside the compound of Angostura at the Eastern Main Road, Laventille where they chanted “Balgobin must...
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JSC chairman tells Petrotrin: Put price cap on projects
This was on Wednesday revealed by David Small, chairman of the Joint Select Committee (JSC) on State Enterprises. He was speaking during a press conference, which was held at the J Hamilton Maurice...
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Sewer problems send students to the streets in protest
Students and parents of the San Fernando West Secondary School marched from their school to the ministry of education office where they staged a protest over sewer problems.Armed with placards, they...
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