Cops kill man in knife attack
A San Juan man was killed by police on Tuesday night after he attacked his 90-year-old grandmother with a knife at their Don Miguel Road home.The deceased, now the 22nd man killed by police for the...
View ArticleFour charged with separate murders
Four men appeared in court yesterday charged with four separate murders which occurred as far back as November, last year.Akini “Akili” Parris, a 24-year-old auto electrician of Cocorite, appeared in...
View ArticleOver 2,000 pupils scored below 30%
The Ministry of Education yesterday defended the placement of 18,180 students who wrote this year’s Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam as they said the process was transparent and based on a set...
View ArticleTwo more Bulgarians charged
The two foreigners appeared before a Port-of-Spain magistrate yesterday, less than a week after two other Bulgarian nationals were arrested and charged with similar offences.Daniel Nedelchev and Emil...
View Article$15,000 bail for Facebook threat
Rayad Mohammed, the man who allegedly issued a threat against the wife and daughter of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, via a Facebook post has pleaded not guilty to a criminal charge. Mohammed who...
View ArticlePensioner jumped outside PCA meeting
Fed up of alleged police inaction over a spate of robberies in his community, a Freeport pensioner went to a Police Complaints Authority (PCA) meeting on Tuesday hoping to air his grievances.Instead,...
View ArticlePM requested ‘official’ info on Burkie
No information on Cedric Burke has been sent at an official level to the National Security Council headed by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, but reliable sources told the T&T Guardian that Rowley...
View ArticleBurke’s friend Dopwell on 2 state boards
Contractor Kenroy Dopwell yesterday admitted he is a director on two wholly-owned state enterprises - the New City Mall and East Side Plaza, Port-of-Spain -, which fall under the remit of the Ministry...
View ArticleDistraction, says Jearlean
Former Housing Development Corporation managing director Jearlean John last night labelled as a “distraction,” a lawsuit filed by the Attorney General, acting on behalf of the Ministry of Housing and...
View ArticleHDC must explain how Burke got contract—Roodal
Former housing minister Dr Roodal Moonilal is calling on the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) to explain what process they used in awarding Sea Lots community leader Cedric Burke a Bon Air South...
View ArticleFood card workers being sent home
Scores of workers in the Ministry of Social Development food card unit are to be sent home at the end of this month.T&T Guardian understands that the employees who were hired on contract to...
View ArticleParents flock for school transfers
Despite assurances from Education Minister Anthony Garcia that the placement of successful SEA pupils was above board, dozens of anxious parents gathered at the Victoria District Educational Office...
View ArticleParents flock for school transfers
Despite assurances from Education Minister Anthony Garcia that the placement of successful SEA pupils was above board, dozens of anxious parents gathered at the Victoria District Educational Office...
View ArticleHelp for poor SEA performers —Garcia
The Education Ministry is considering remedial initiatives for the 2,170 students who scored below 30 per cent in the 2017 SEA examination, to prepare them for secondary school, Education Minister...
View ArticleProbe into Burkie’s ‘guest appearance’JULY
The Police Commissioner and the aide-de-camp at President’s House are “looking into” whether any security breach occurred when a man whose name was not on the guest list for last Friday’s swearing-in...
View ArticlePeacemaker killed after death threats
Three weeks to the date after receiving a death threat, a Laventille man was shot in the head as he awaited transport to his Dan Kelly home yesterday.According to police reports, Sceall (pronounced...
View ArticleNo leads in murder 12 months later
After one year and no justice, a La Romain mother is calling on the police to solve the murder of her son Mark Kern Richardson who was gunned down during a drive-by shooting at Dottin Street, San...
View ArticleCarmona: Only crime talk fluff in T&T
President Anthony Carmona says it is only talk he is hearing after people are murdered in T&T.He said so during Wednesday’s presentation of national scout youth awards at the Hotel Ballroom of...
View ArticleCriticism unfair
Unreasonable and unfair criticism over the Judicial and Legal Service Commission’s handling the short-lived judicial appointment of former chief magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar, has been cited as the...
View ArticleRowley treads carefully on issue
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley holds the view that the executive arm of the State may very well have to intervene in the ongoing controversy in the Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC).But the...
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