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It was a family affair
This year’s Carnival Kings and Queens Competition was a family affair with two clans with long-standing history in the individual mas tournaments coping the top prizes. At the end of the...
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Hunting, quarry accidents claim lives
Police are advising hunters to be more vigilant and remain in groups whenever they go hunting following the accidental shooting death of a man on Wednesday. According to police reports a man,...
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Biche teens held for larceny
Five teenagers have been charged with larceny and breaking and entering of a grocery and bar in Biche. The young men, whose ages range from 16 to 19, were charged and remanded into custody after...
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Gas explosion on Mucurapo Road
A gas explosion by a Kleen Rite Dry Cleaners has injured three people and caused traffic to back up from the east and west side of the Audrey Jeffers Highway. No fatalities have been reported. Fire...
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Missing teen found
Curtis Pierre, the 15 year old Tranquility student of Upper Valley Road, Cascade who was reported missing last Monday, has been found. According to a release from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service...
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Bunji and Fayann’s children’s concert free on Saturday
Mindful of the cancellation of a number of fetes and a decreased number of attendants to certain events for this Carnival season, soca super couple Ian Alvarez (Bunji Garlin) and Fayann Lyons-Alvarez...
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BIR to penalise VAT culprits
The Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) will deal with culprits charging more than the 12.5 Value Added Tax rate where necessary. Fast food establishments should also be using the 12.5 per cent VAT rate,...
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Truck driver buried alive
A routine trip to a Claxton Bay quarry turned fatal for a La Brea truck driver after he was buried alive in a mudslide on Wednesday.By the time Ricardo Caton, 52, was dug out from under the dirt and...
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Compact Soca Monarch show tonight
Tonight, 20 artistes will present their best possible performances to audiences at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in a tighter, more compact and better produced International Soca Monarch Competition.The...
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Unfair criticism for moko jumbie mas
To say the moko jumbie is not mas is to insult the people who dedicate their lives to the craft.This was the opinion of eight-time Carnival King Peter Samuel.Samuel, who played Tan Tan and Saga Boy,...
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Panic as SWRHA moves to cut temporary jobs
Staff of the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) went into panic on Wednesday night as a memorandum circulated by the Chief Executive Officer hinted at job and salary cuts.The memo is titled...
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Dallsingh is Queen again
Reigning Carnival Queen Gloria Dallsingh capped off a fantastic season on Wednesday night when she and her son, Marlon Rampersad, completed a hat-trick in the Kings and Queens competition, titled Night...
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Only birds and bandits
Birds and bandits. This is all the Central Market in Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain, has to offer vendors who are to be removed from the Salvatori building site. Spokesman for the vendors, Steve Fletcher,...
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Bandit grabs $7,000 bank deposit and shoots worker
A betting shop employee who tried to retreive his employer’s bank deposit from an armed bandit was shot twice in the thigh during a daylight robbery in San Fernando yesterday.André Lovelace, 47, was...
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Two teenaged students missing
The police are seeking the public's assistance in locating two secondary students who have gone missing.The two 15-years-old were reported missing by their parents in two separate incidents.According...
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Murders in Toco, Moruga raise toll to 51
The murder toll has now risen to 51 with the murders of a Moruga woman and a man from Toco. This morning, at about 2.40 am, Ishma Ali, 39, from L’anse Mitan Road Moruga was sleeping in her home when...
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Gypsy accepts blame for state of economy
Newly-crowned extempo champ and former government minster Winston “Gypsy” Peters yesterday accepted responsibility for the alleged mismanagement of the economy during the People’s Partnership...
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The Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA) is denying that there is a fish kill at La Brea, insisting instead that it is a case of fishermen dumping an unwanted catch of low demand fish.Further to the IMA’s...
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Cyber cops now hold key to case
The police search for child sex predator Franklyn Chea Callender ended yesterday when he was found hanging by his neck from a rope tied to a mango tree near Cemetery Street, Princes Town.Police found,...
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Bad company blamed for Toco man’s murder
A 20-year-old Toco man who ignored his brother’s warnings was shot dead outside his home on Thursday night.Speaking with the media at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday, Shaquille...
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