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Caterers feel Christmas pinch
Caterers, restaurant owners and event organisers are already feeling the squeeze of the recession and some have opted to attract customers by lowering their prices and slashing marketing and...
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Stakeholders: T&T needs anti-gang law
There is a view the criminals now believe they have the upper hand and are exploiting divisions in society following the failure to pass the Anti-Gang Bill in the House of Representatives.Some...
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Objections to shifting retirement age
A recommendation contained in the 9th Actuarial Review of the National Insurance Board to increase the retirement age from 60 to 65 is not sitting well with the trade union movement with a suggestion...
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Suspect shot, 2 cohorts held
Special Reserve police officer Richard Babwah was killed last evening during an attempted robbery at a Chinese restaurant in Arouca.Babwah, the father of two girls, was killed after he was fired upon...
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Female officer in gun photo now facing probe
The T&T Police Service is now investigating one of its own, after a photo surfaced on social media over the weekend of a woman holding what appears to be a gun near the head of a baby also in her...
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HDC unable to help Josephs further
The Housing Development Corporation says it cannot do anything more for former national heavyweight boxer Wendel Joseph and his wheelchair-bound wife Erica.The HDC made the comment in a press release...
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Tobago prisoner escapes custody
A manhunt is in progress for a prisoner who escaped from a cell at the Scarborough Police Station over the weekend.The T&T Guardian understands that Samuel Maharaj, 25, of Mt. Zion, Whim, a repeat...
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Collusion rampant
Former Education Facilities Company Ltd (EFCL) chairman Arnold Piggott has described the organisation which he inherited as one in which collusion, bid-rigging, favouritism, nepotism and political...
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Ex-EFCL chair: I was not forced out
Former Educational Facilities Company Ltd (EFCL) chairman Arnold Piggott has insisted he was not forced out from the organisation by the People’s National Movement (PNM) or by Prime Minister Dr Keith...
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Drunk driver to fix broken house
The drunk driver who crashed into a family’s home in Debe escaped being sent to jail yesterday.Nigel Jacob, however, is not off the hook. His is sentences for driving under the influence and dangerous...
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Magistrate absent,Vicky’s case put off
Almost two weeks after her short-lived prison escape, accused fraudster Vicky Boodram reappeared in court yesterday on a series of fraud charges which landed her in prison in the first place.Boodram...
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Brother in court for sibling’s murder
Ramraj Samaroo yesterday appeared in the Couva Magistrates Court charged with the murder of his younger brother.Samaroo, also known as Baye, 52, of Couva, is accused of chopping his brother, Ganesh...
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Soldier kills girl, 2, during argument
A soldier was detained at the Sangre Grande Police Station last night, after he allegedly shot two people, including a two-year-old girl who subsequently died at hospital.The girl’s uncle was also...
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Missing teen found close to dad’s home
Two days after she was reported missing, 16-year-old Shakeela Phillip was found in a house metres away from her father's Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain home.The teen was last seen by her father, Sheldon...
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Spoiled Christmas
Slain SRP Richard Babwah’s daughters were very traumatised yesterday as they tried to come to terms with the sudden death of their father, who was killed by bandits during a robbery in Arouca on Monday...
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Govt intervened
The Government intervened in the Education Facilities Company Ltd (EFCL) but did not interfere, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday.Rowley’s comment came as he responded to claims by former...
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Tobago prisoner recaptured
Samuel Maharaj, who escaped from the Scarborough Police Station between Sunday and Monday, was recaptured by police on Monday night.Police told the T&T Guardian that following an all-day search for...
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Worker accused of $16m EPoS fraud
A forensic audit at the East Port-of-Spain Company Limited (EPoS) has unearthed a scheme of unauthorised cheque payments to the value of approximately $16 million to a company affiliated with an EPoS...
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Tunapuna
In light of the recent killing of Special Reserve Police Officer Richard Babwah, the Greater Tunapuna Chamber of Industry and Commerce is calling for increased police patrols in the region.Chamber...
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Witness goes missing, murder accused freed
The inability of police to locate a teenager, who witnessed his father’s murder when he was nine-years-old, has allowed the alleged killer to walk free.After spending almost a decade on remand,...
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