Archbishop wants to meet troubled student
Archbishop Jason Gordon wants to meet with the medical student who smashed the revered crucifix and statute of St Paul at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception during Palm Sunday mass.And Monsignor...
View ArticleSchool, health centre closed, no water in Icacos
If you dig for four feet in any part of Icacos you will find water because the village is under sea level, yet the people of Icacos have no clean water to drink, as their taps have been dry for the...
View ArticleMurder suspect gunned down
A scrap iron dealer who beat a murder rap two years ago and was suspected to be involved in two recent murders was gunned down in Claxton Bay yesterday.Crime Scene Investigators found over 20 bullet...
View ArticleDuke’s opponents want him to vacate office
“Leave the PSA (Public Service Association) now.”This was the advice from PSA’s Team Sentinel presidential candidate Nixon Callender had for the organisation’s president Watson Duke and his...
View ArticleMinistry welcomes ruling on highway project
The Ministry of Works and Transport (MOWT) says it welcomes the decision of the Court of Appeal which on Monday dismissed the case brought by Fisherman and Friends of the Sea (FFSO) challenging the...
View ArticleWASA pushes for rate hike
The Water and Sewerage Authority says it is in dire need of a rate increase because it was spending more money to supply the nation water than it receives from customers.According to chairman Romney...
View ArticleCAL owes Airports Authority $210m in rent
The national airline, Caribbean Airlines (CAL) owes a staggering $210 million in rent to the Airports Authority of T&T (AATT), according to the Auditor General’s Department.CAL has promised to come...
View ArticleUnanimous support for new PSC member but...
New Police Service Commission member Bliss Seepersad will be functioning on the independent body alongside her role as a member of Government’s Chaguaramas Development Authority (CDA) Board.And while...
View ArticleHousewife charged, 28 parrots rescued
Police raided a house in Santa Flora and arrested a housewife after 28 protected yellow-headed parrots were found at her home. The 31-year-old woman was at her Savannah Road, Santa Flora home when the...
View ArticleGordon: Let’s pray for medical student
Archbishop of Port-of-Spain Jason Gordon is standing by the decision by Msgr Christian Pereira not to press charges against the medical student involved in the Palm Sunday incident at the Cathedral of...
View ArticleAripo anaconda to be left alone
Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat said yesterday a decision has been made not to interfere with the 12-foot anaconda that was sighted at the Aripo Livestock Station in Aripo. Rambharat said that...
View ArticleWoman who escaped abductors seeks medical treatment
Kunti Deopersad sought medical treatment yesterday, a day after she gave an account of how she escaped four abductors by picking a lock with a hairpin.Up to press time yesterday, her husband Tilkee...
View ArticleNew security measures at airport
New security measures have been put in place following last December’s $5 million heist at cargo bond of the Piarco International Airport, according to the deputy general manager of security at...
View ArticleWife freed, husband convicted
It was a bitter sweet outcome for Putitia Mohammed yesterday after she was freed of a murder charge, but she left behind her husband who was convicted and taken back to prison to await...
View ArticleOnly Cabo Star sailing to Tobago
At the height of one of the busiest holiday periods, the sea transport to Tobago is at its lowest, with none of the passenger ferries in operation and the lone water taxi, which was capable of making...
View ArticleThieves target truckers outside PortThieves target truckers outside Port
Bandits pounced on truckers who lined up along Wrightson Road yesterday hoping to board the Cabo Star, at the Cruise Ship Complex, in Port-of-Spain.In one case, the thieves made off with a truck loaded...
View ArticleJearlean calls on Rohan, Tobago MPs to be removed
Remove failed Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan and the two PNM Tobago MPs should resign and call elections after continually failing Tobago.That was the call to Prime Minister Keith Rowley...
View ArticlePolice out in full force for Sheron’s funeral
Police will be out in full force today for the funeral of murdered car dealer and real estate agent Sheron Sukhdeo, who was gunned down on Monday night.Sukhdeo, 33, who was affiliated with the Muslim...
View ArticleThree guards held with contraband
Three prison officers will remain in police custody over the Easter long-weekend after they were arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs, cell phones and cigarettes into the two prison facilities at...
View ArticleDiplomatic misrepresentation
The Foreign Affairs Ministry is investigating circumstances which led to this country’s representative at a recent meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) where T&T ‘s representative...
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