Tension over buggery ruling
Two members of the LGBTQI community were yesterday attacked outside the Hall of Justice, Port-of-Spain, just as Justice Devindra Rampersad was set to give his ruling on Jason Jones’ challenge to...
View ArticleMinister’s stepdaughter abducted
The stepdaughter of Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Stuart Young was abducted from a friend’s home at Alfred Drive, Crystal Stream, Diego Martin, last night and police have launched a...
View ArticleT&T Spirit on final sea trials—Port chairman
Good news finally for users of the seabridge as word is that the T&T Spirit could be back out soon after a successful three-hour sea trial yesterday.Chairman of the Port Authority, Lyle Alexander...
View ArticleTwo weeks for Darryl Smith’s report— Young
The public must wait for two weeks for an investigating committee’s report to find out what “new information” caused PNM’s Darryl Smith to be fired from the Government on Tuesday.That’s the request...
View ArticleStuart Young: Family paid no ransom
Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Stuart Young said yesterday no ransom was paid for the release of his step-daughter Krystiana Sankar following her abduction on Thursday night.Sankar was...
View ArticleT&T Spirit returns Monday
Tobago stakeholders are keeping their fingers crossed that the seabridge will be back in service, following confirmation from the Port Authority yesterday that the T&T Spirit will return to service...
View ArticleCedros fishermen still not back from Venezuela
Heermatie Sankar longs to hear the voices of her husband Awardnath Hajarie, son Nicholas Hajarie and friend Shammi Seepersad, who were released from a Venezuelan jail in Tucupita three days ago but...
View ArticleMinistry allows Guyanese boy to write SEA
The Ministry of Education has reversed its position on barring an 11-year-old student from Guyana, who lived in T&T for most of his life, from sitting next month’s Secondary Entrance Assessment...
View ArticleHeat as PM grilled over Darryl Smith firing... Indarsingh ejected
Tempers flared in Parliament yesterday when the Opposition United National Congress pressed Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on issues concerning the Sports Ministry’s $150,000 settlement to a former...
View ArticleEight hours in captivity
Controversy surrounds the kidnapping and release of the step-daughter of Krystiana Sankar, the step-daughter of Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General Stuart Young.This after Young denied he...
View ArticlePrivy Council to settle gay rights lawsuit—AG
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi says Government’s decision to appeal Justice Devindra Rampersad’s ruling who declared this country’s buggery offence as unconstitutional was to avoid running the risk and...
View Article9 freed of murder after 8 years in prison
After spending almost eight years in prison awaiting trial, nine men from Sea Lots were yesterday freed of murdering a man during a robbery in Cocorite in 2010.The men walked out of the Hall of Justice...
View ArticleFiery protests for water in Penal
Starved of pipe-borne water for almost six weeks, Penal residents yesterday staged a fiery protest calling on the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to send water in their communities before the new...
View ArticlePCA: Only 38 cases sent to DPP in 4 years
In the past four years, only 38 cases made against police officers to the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) have been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for further instructions.This is...
View ArticleLGBTQI can take issues to EOC now
Amendments to the Equal Opportunity Act, Chap 22:03 to extend the definition of sex to include sexual orientation, has enabled the LGBTQI community to seek redress for complaints of discrimination...
View ArticleUTT hunting for foreign lecturers
Despite facing serious financial difficulty, the University of T&T (UTT) is currently looking for two highly-qualified professors from abroad as they claim their the skillset cannot be found...
View ArticleSchoolboy, 16, among 3 killed
Sixteen-year-old Kareem Forde was at his John John, Laventille home on Friday afternoon, leaning from one of their outside doors as he engaged in an online game on his phone when he began shouting,...
View ArticleCan we tackle taboo topic?
In the face of the continuing sexual harassment scandal involving the former Sports Minister Darryl Smith, calls continue to be made for the implementation of legislation to address what has previously...
View ArticleCuffie 3rd absentee MP in ParliamentTouchy case for PM to deal with
When Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley reshuffled and reassigned ministerial appointments on Monday, the demotion of Maxie Cuffie as Minister of Public Administration and Communications to Minister in the...
View ArticleEOCLaws alone won’t fix issue—chair
T&T does not have a national sexual harassment policy.Although sexual harassment in the workplace has remained a largely taboo subject which continues to be dismissed, ignored, covered up and...
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