Rescued pregnant mom back home
“There is hope for T&T,” expectant father Akil Jackson said yesterday, as he showered praise on St Helena villagers, two Emergency Medical Technicians and a Guardian Media team for helping rescue...
View ArticleCase against Inspector Alexander set for September
A new date— September 5—has been set for the trial of two police officers accused of assaulting a man from Santa Cruz last year.Magistrate Nanette Forde-John set the date as Insp Roger Alexander and PC...
View ArticleMan feared dead after boat flips
Despite warnings to stay away from swollen watercourses in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Bret, one man is feared dead after a boat he was in overturned in the Godineau River yesterday.Up to late...
View ArticleDad gets 20 years
A Mayaro father regarded as a community stalwart will spend the next 20 years in jail for committing five sex acts on of of his four daughters, including trying to have sex with her at their home.Given...
View ArticleTouched by hands of God
Police officers accused of beating four men charged with robbing popular Roman Catholic priest Father Clyde Harvey have denied any wrongdoing and have suggested the men were “touched by the hands of...
View ArticleGovt officials seeing rough road ahead
Food supply “issues” ahead for consumers, five schools still closed, health inspections needed and drainage assessments to come. That was the state of play yesterday, as detailed by various Government...
View ArticleHDC to pay $400,000 to relatives of woman mauled by pitbulls
The Housing Development Corporation (HDC) has to pay more than $400,000 to the family of security officer Denise Rackal who bled to death after being savagely mauled by four pitbulls at its Edinburgh...
View ArticleThieves reap flooded crops
Tabaquite farmers Chadwick Ramlal and his brother Fedlis had added stress yesterday, after thieves struck and stole about 400 pounds of cabbage from their garden at the Navet Dam Access Road.The...
View ArticleMurder accused goes to court in wheelchair
Sixty-year-old murder accused Jasodra Jagmohan was wheeled into the San Fernando High Court yesterday, where she is on trial for allegedly killing her husband.The Penal woman is on trial before Justice...
View ArticleBusinessman gunned down
Customers at Ernie’s Auto Electrical Shop were sent scampering for cover when a gunman entered the business and shot the owner, Mahendra Ramlogan, dead yesterday.One suspect was later held when Couva...
View ArticleSWRHA must pay family for boy’s death
The South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) has been ordered to pay compensation to the parents of a three-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who died while being treated at the San Fernando General...
View ArticleI still love T&T
Father Clyde Harvey has been appointed by the Vatican as the new Bishop of the Diocese of St. George’s, Grenada. However, he is insisting he is not running from T&T is the wake of the recent attack...
View ArticleNew lawsuit filed over decade old Piarco case
Businessmen Ish Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson and a group of former government officials have yet another lawsuit to avoid prosecution on corruption charges arising out of the construction of the...
View ArticleNo help for flood victims—Moonilal
Prime Minister Keith Rowley didn’t bring residents one assistance grant or even one hamper when he recently toured flood-ravaged Southern areas, Opposition MP Roodal Moonilal declared yesterday.“He...
View ArticlePlea for hot meals for flood victims
An appeal has been made for hot meals to be provided to those still grappling with the aftermath of Tropical Storm Bret.It came from founder of Is There Not a Cause (ITNAC) Avonelle Hector-Joseph.She...
View ArticleGun, ammo seized in South
Southern Division police believe they may have prevented a number of murders when they arrested three men and seized three guns with over 100 rounds of ammunition, during two separate incidents on...
View ArticleEOC, Maha Sabha gets ok to provide views
The Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) and religious group— the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha— have been given permission to provide their opinions on a lawsuit brought by Trinidad-born gay rights activist...
View Article‘JLSC flawed for almost a decade’
The Judiciary has again come under scrutiny, this time as an attorney who was given a letter of appointment to serve as a judge in 2009 but was never sworn in by the President has made an application...
View ArticleSpeaker under fire from UNC
The United National Congress (UNC) intends to file a no-confidence motion in House Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George following a heated sitting of the Parliament on Friday night which culminated in a...
View ArticleKamla calls on public to help citizens after Bret
Questioning when the Government’s $25M relief fund will kick in, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called on members of the public to donate relief items to flood and storm-affected...
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