Fake oil reports sent to DPP’s office—Khan
Energy Minister Franklin Khan said yesterday that the reports coming out of two independent investigations into A&V Oil and Gas Ltd have been referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions for...
View Article$120m for new Tobago ferry—Imbert
The Government has spent US$17.4 million (TT$120m) in acquiring an Asian vessel to service the inter-island ferry service.Finance Minister Colm Imbert made the announcement in Parliament yesterday as...
View ArticleMurdered teen’s friends traumatised
Three students of the Morvant/Laventille Secondary School who survived last Monday’s deadly attack in which their schoolmate Joshua Andrew was killed are said to be deeply traumatised and have...
View ArticleTrinis detained at Iraqi camp
The Ministry of National Security is currently investigating a group of Trinidadians being held at a detention camp in Iraq.This was disclosed yesterday by National Security Minister Edmund Dillon in...
View ArticleCyber tools to be usedto prevent corruption
Rhondor DowlatIn a bid to tighten on transparency, accountability and value for money, the newly-installed Procurement Board chairman, Moonilal Lalchan intends to utilise the latest cryptocurrency...
View ArticleState $$ wasted on Chutney Soca Monarch—Eversely
6 photosShastri Boodan State funding is being wasted on the Chutney Soca Monarch Competition says Wendell Eversely, the vice president of the National Chutney Foundation of T&T. Eversely spoke with...
View ArticleEnough Iz Enough...Women, men come forward
A social media conversation triggered by the brutal murder in December of Samantha Isaacs, who was shot to death and her body dumped on a road in Carenage, has given rise to a local movement against...
View ArticlePublic to get limited invites to Max funeral
The public will be invited to the funeral of former president Prof George Maxwell Richards by invitation only. However, a limited number of invitations will be distributed to the public on a "first...
View ArticleRoget, Abdulah go after cop forspraying residents during protest
SASCHA WILSON Sixty-year-old Joycelyn Neptune, who claimed she was injured when a a police officer hosed down a group of protesting villagers in New Grant last week, has reported the incident at the...
View ArticleWoman, 20, injured in hit and run accident...relatives call on driver to...
SASCHA WILSON Relatives of a 20-year-old woman who has been hospitalised after she was struck in Penal by a car are appealing to the driver to surrender to the police. Seema Ramkissoon suffered a...
View ArticleMilly happy after being granted asylum
Deyone "Milly" Guiseppi fled this country five years ago after being bullied, harassed and victimised for her sexual orientation and sought asylum in a European country.Guiseppi has since been granted...
View ArticleNY City, T&T go different directions in crime fight
New York City is the largest city in the United States and boasts a population of 8.5 million.This means that Trinidad and Tobago with its population of 1.3 million is more than six times smaller than...
View Article6 companies tendered for ferry in November
Six companies submitted tenders in November 2017 for the acquisition of an inter-island ferry to service the route between Trinidad and Tobago.Tender submissions were received from:• Get Away Cruises...
View ArticleGovernment starts land acquisition for Curepe overpass
Government has started the compulsory acquisition of land for construction of the $221 million overpass and ancillary roads at the intersection of the Southern Main Road and the Churchill-Roosevelt...
View ArticleNY City, T&T go different directions in crime fight
New York City is the largest city in the United States and boasts a population of 8.5 million. This means that Trinidad and Tobago with its population of 1.3 million is more than six times smaller than...
View ArticleBullet riddled body found
The bullet riddled body of a URP worker was found by police in Fyzabad on Saturday night.Acting on an anonymous tip off called in to the Fyzabad Police Station at around 11 pm, officers went to Gowers...
View ArticleOpposition MP: Citizens will be spied upon
Naparima MP Rodney Charles, in a statement yesterday, warned that citizens might be spied upon for political or other reasons and soon there will be little they can do about about it.“This is all part...
View Article‘We will not give up’
With 28 murders in just the first 14 days of the year, National Security Minister Edmund Dillon yesterday said the various national security agencies are “not comfortable.” However, he assured that...
View ArticleOpen casket for Richards
There will be an open casket during public viewings of President George Maxwell Richards and at his State funeral on Wednesday at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA).National Security...
View ArticleMaxine: I can’t believe he’s gone
Maxine Richards, daughter of former president George Maxwell Richards, shared fond memories of her father yesterday during a function in his memory at the San Fernando City Hall.She was welcomed by San...
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