Guyanese man shot dead in POS
A Guyanese national was shot dead in Port-of-Spain yesterday.Dead is 30-year-old Troy Henry of San Juan.Homicide detectives are working on the theory that Henry's murder was linked to the killing of...
View ArticleUnions: Don’t blame workers for low productivity
Union leaders say workers are not to be blamed for the low productivity in the work force.President of the Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU) Vincent Cabrera, Leader of the Movement...
View ArticleAnnisette questions ferry’s effectiveness
President of the Seamen and Waterfront Workers Trade Union (SWWTU) Michael Annisette is questioning Government’s decision to exclude key stakeholders in the selection of a new vessel to service the sea...
View ArticleSpotlight on T&T’s
Last week, this country bade farewell to a former president, Professor George Maxwell Richards, and elected a woman, Justice Paula-Mae Weekes, to this country’s highest office for the first time.The...
View ArticleRamai Trace school to be completed by year’s end
Education Minister Anthony Garcia is assuring that the Ramai Trace Hindu School in Debe will be completed and he is optimistic that the completion will be in time for the start of the new school year...
View ArticleTobago stakeholders hoping for answers
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and a high-powered ministerial team will sit today for talks with the business community in Tobago.Stakeholders in Tobago told the T&T Guardian that they will be...
View ArticleAG: Returning
nadaleen.singh@guardian.co.ttAttorney General Faris Al-Rawi said amendments to legislation dealing with terrorism are expected to presented when the Parliament sits this week. He said the amendments...
View ArticleCostatt realigns core operations
The College of Science, Technology, and Applied Arts of T&T (COSTAATT), is “tightening its belt,” and is now operating “pretty much to the bone,” in the face of a declining enrolment.The management...
View ArticleLeaking roof floods hospital ward
radhica.sookraj@guardian.co.ttNursing staff had to keep patients calm after torrents of water began flowing through the ceiling at Ward Seven of the San Fernando General Hospital yesterday, drenching...
View ArticleGarcia: UTT overstaffed, fat must be trimmed
Education Minister Anthony Garcia says the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) is of the view that the organisation is “overstaffed and to run the university efficiently it will mean they have to...
View ArticleKeshorn’s cousin killed in Toco
The cousin of Olympic Gold medallist Keshorn Walcott was gunned down at his Cumana home on Saturday night in what police said appeared to be as retaliation for the recent murder of a fisherman in the...
View ArticleLego masters showcase talent
radhica.sookraj@guardian.co.ttInnovation and invention are touted as solutions to diversify T&T’s economy and director of the Lego Club of T&T Terrence Francois believes supporting the...
View ArticleSold-out show at Kaiso Showkase
radhica.sookraj@guardian.co.ttCalypso tents in North Trinidad have been reporting poor turnout but this was not the case in South as Kaiso Showkase Tent opened at Palms Club, San Fernando on Friday...
View ArticleGary leads three finalists for CoP post
The Police Service Commission has narrowed the search for T&T’s next Police Commissioner and out of 20 applicants, three finalists have been chosen, among them former National Security Minister...
View ArticlePresident’s House ready by mid-2019
President-elect Paula-Mae Weekes would have to wait until June of 2019 to occupy President’s House in St Ann’s.This was the time frame chairman of the Urban Development Corporation of T&T Noel...
View ArticleGovt shelves union’s plan to rescue T&T
radhica.sookraj@guardian.co.ttSending workers home will trigger more crime and poverty, Joint Trade Union Movement leader Ancel Roget warned as he continued mass mobilisation in San Fernando...
View ArticlePM, Tobago stakeholders meeting fruitful
The meeting between Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Tobago stakeholders at the Magdalena Grand Beach Resort yesterday has been described as fruitful. A high-powered ministerial team led Rowley, a...
View Articlet: I have no say in retrenchment
President of the University of T&T Professor Sarim Al-Zubaidy said he has no other motive but making the university sustainable for decades to come. He said, “I act on the interest of UTT alone...
View ArticleJudge varies Manzanilla Highway injunction
High Court judge Kevin Ramcharan yesterday varied the injunction he granted barring construction works on the Manzanilla Highway as he gears up to hear submissions on whether or not a lawsuit filed...
View ArticleCPF chairman:Quality song at Soca Monarch
Chairman of the Caribbean Prestige Foundation (CPF) Peter Scoon has said that this year’s offerings for the International Soca Monarch are “quality songs” but some of the big players have chosen...
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