Postal union heads to court over managers’ pay raise
The T&T Postal Workers Union (TTPWU) has taken the management of TTPost to court for what it has deemed to be a violation of good industrial practices after claims that increases in salaries were...
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More Carnival $$ cuts likely
Further cuts may be made in the budgetary allocations for Carnival 2016, says Community Development, Culture and the Arts Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly yesterday.Yesterday, Gadsby-Dolly and new...
View ArticleMet Service ends rough seas warning
The Met Service yesterday discontinued the rough seas bulletin which had been in effect for several weeks.A release from the Met Office yesterday stated: “Sea conditions have been steadily improving...
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4 Debe businesses hit by fire damage
Five business owners were affected by an early morning fire at a popular business place in Debe, yesterday.While the booths at the lower floor of the two-storey building suffered mostly smoke and soot...
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Singh not afraid of WASA audit
Former minister of the environment and water resources, Ganga Singh, says he fears no audit into the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) because “all processes were followed” under his tenure.He made...
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Officials search for clues but Employees feel fire no accident
The official cause of the fire that destroyed the second floor of the Water and Sewerage Authority’s (WASA) main building at its St Joseph administrative complex is yet to be determined.Yesterday, fire...
View ArticleLaptops stolen from Princes Town school
The Ministry of Education and police are investigating the theft of ten laptop computers from the Princes Town East Secondary School on Tuesday. According to reports, school was in session when a...
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$2m bail for human trafficking accused
A 30-year-old Tunapuna man accused of trafficking a minor and inciting her into prostitution has been granted $2 million bail. Anthony Smith, a bar manager from Tunapuna Road, El Dorado, was given the...
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12 homeless after arson attack
Two vehicles, a four-apartment building and a business were destroyed by fire following an arson attack in Laventille yesterday. Twelve people, including four children — aged two, nine, 10 and 11 — are...
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Man killed, woman critical after crash
An unidentified man is dead and a woman is in critical condition at hospital after a Hilux van and a truck, belonging to Seereeram Brothers, collided along the Caroni South Bank Road, Caroni,...
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Principal pays fitting tribute to hero student
The funeral for 13-year-old Nathan Barcoo-Campo was a large and sad event. The church, located in Samaroo Village, Arima, was packed with relatives, friends and Trinity College East schoolmates as they...
View ArticleDuke cancels hunger march
Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke has cancelled all protest action by members of his union, including a hunger strike he intended to stage because of the government’s failure to...
View ArticleMagistrate recuses self from Seetahal trial
Accused gang leader Rajaee Ali and 11 members of his organisation accused of assassinating Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal have succeeded in their bid to have Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar recuse...
View ArticlePolice plead for public’s help
The Police Service is appealing to members of the public to once again cooperate with the authorities to help in reducing crime.Speaking during the first media briefing to be held this year at the...
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Cuffie will not answer “Opposition questions”
Media questions on the status of the Couva Children’s Hospital at yesterday’s post-Cabinet media conference were dismissed by Communications Minister Maxie Cuffie as “Opposition questions,” which, he...
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Murder toll hits 10
Five people were killed in less than 24 hours yesterday, three of them in apparent gang warfare in Belmont, as gun-toting criminals continued their killing spree, sending the toll to ten for the year...
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Bandit kills man after getting no loot
A Valencia man who refused the request of an armed bandit to pass over his cash, jewelry and cellphone was shot and killed on Wednesday night after the bandit locked his wife, child and friend in...
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I begged for my life
Chutney soca artiste Samraj “Rikki Jai” Jaimungal had to beg for his life after a gunman who shot at him and missed kept the loaded gun pointed at his waist for approximately three of the most...
View ArticleDocs involved in C-section death suspended
The Tobago Regional Health Authority Board (TRHA) has suspended the doctors who were involved in the surgery to Rose Gordon, 35, of Charlotteville, who died on New Year’s Day after delivering her baby...
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Probe thwarted as WASA fire re-ignites
Investigations into the cause of the blaze at the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) St Joseph headquarters have stalled because of a re-ignition of the fire on Wednesday afternoon.Fire Services...
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