‘You never know where you’ll find love’
Claudette Spencer was a United States attorney working with the New York Prisoners’ Right Project of the Legal Aid Society when she visited Elmira Correctional Facility, New York in 1984 to investigate...
View ArticleTimber licensees protest pace of processing documents
Some 60 Rio Claro and Mayaro woodworkers (licensees) who purchase trees through the Forestry Division are begging Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to help them. The licensees are claiming that they have...
View ArticleOffshore worker fined $10,000 for drunk driving
An offshore worker who was caught driving under the influence of alcohol for the second time was yesterday slapped with a $10,000 fine and disqualified from driving for a year. Romel Darson was also...
View ArticleCanadian resident sues Hinds after hit-and-run
Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs Fitzgerald Hinds has been sued by a Canadian resident who is claiming he was injured by the Minister’s vehicle in a hit-and- run...
View ArticleCourt reserves judgment in ICATT lawsuit
Accountant Chandricka Seeteram will have to wait until next month to find out the fate of his lawsuit challenging an investigation by Institute of Chartered Accountants of T&T (ICATT) into his...
View ArticleBass guitarist murdered in Morvant
Martin Julien, 44, was excited of meeting his first born grandchild and couldn’t have waited for morning to clear yesterday so that he could go to the hospital to hold his only daughter’s new baby....
View ArticlePregnant Tobago teen killed in hit- and- run
A tragic accident in Tobago has claimed the life of a pregnant teenager.Donielle Nelson, 17, of Harmony Hall, was killed in a hit-- and- run accident on Sunday night.The accident happened at Government...
View ArticlePNM, UNC in tit-for-tat over dirty campaign
As the countdown to the July 16 by-election draws closer both the United National Congress (UNC) and the People’s National Movement (PNM) have accused each other of a dirty campaign in one of the two...
View ArticlePM earns $7 interest on bank savingsNIF will bring better returns
Having earned annual interest of just $7 from one of his bank accounts, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday called on the business sector, NGOs and customers of commercial banks to invest in...
View ArticleJack sees diversification as best way out$4.5b Budget
The Tobago House of Assembly (THA) wants a total of more and four and a half billion dollars from the Central Government to run the island’s business in the next fiscal year 2019. Of that amount, $3.2...
View ArticleGalleons Passage now due July 16
The Galleons Passage ferry should arrive in T&T by July 16 following certain upgrades currently being done in Cuba by the vessel’s seller, Works Minister Rohan Sinanan said yesterday.Sinanan gave...
View ArticleLife in the time of World Cup 2018
You saw them over the weekend. Frantic half-time sorties to the supermarket for snacks and drinks. Then, in an instant, roads were clear enough to make a maxi man cry. Not a peanut vendor in sight. A...
View ArticleTrini author cops regional Commonwealth Short Story prize
Local author Kevin Jared Hosein has won the Caribbean regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the second time.The prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction from...
View ArticleTeen missing 15 days
Today marks 15 days since 19-year-old Anil Matagoolam walked away from his home at Rivulet Road, Couva to visit friends.He has never been seen since.Speaking with the T&T Guardian yesterday,...
View ArticleCCJ: Presidents of Guyana can only serve two terms
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled that presidents of Guyana can only serve two terms in office. Delivering a majority judgment at its headquarters at Henry Street, Port-of-Spain,...
View ArticleDelay in rebuilding P Town Presbyterian School
Frustrated by the delay in rebuilding the Princes Town Presbyterian No. 1 School, parents blocked the road with burning debris and kept their children home yesterday.Police and fire-fighters responded...
View ArticleSRP among threecharged with assault
A Special Reserve Police officer (SRP) and two Charlieville men were granted bail with a surety in differing amounts when they appeared before a Chaguanas magistrate jointly charged with common assault...
View ArticleWoman hides under bed as cousins killed
A 19-year-old woman hid under a bed to escape a gunman who stormed into her house and sprayed bullets in her bedroom and in the bedroom of her 28-year-old relative Samuel “Sam” David during the wee...
View ArticleJack: Another International hotel chain eyes Tobago
Rosemarie SantAnother International hotel chain is interested in investing in Tobago but Secretary of Finance in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Joel Jack says he is unable to give details on the...
View ArticleMega projects heads to Tobago:
Local contractors are optimistic that they will get a fair share of the pie when mega projects get going in Tobago. It includes construction of 300 new houses, construction of the new terminal building...
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