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PM: Set aside differences, unite as one
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley wants the people of T&T to set aside their differences and unite as one.He also called for a greater sense of oneness as he briefly addressed the audience at the...
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Mottley misses ceremony
Former finance minister Wendell Mottley will receive the country’s highest award—the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago—on a later date.Mottley was expected to be the first awardee called at...
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Country still in great debt
Former Central Bank governor Ewart Williams has said that while the economy is improving, the country still in significant debt.“The economy is turning around slowly in the sense that we are getting...
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Brazen robbery
Eyewitnesses to today’s brazen robbery of a G4S Security armoured vehicle and its four armed guards have described it as “like a scene out of an action movie.”According to a police report, at about...
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Suspect held in $
Rhondor DowlatIn less than 12 hours, police arrested a 38-year-old man in connection with Monday’s over $1 million heist at a Republic Bank Limited ATM in St Helena, Piarco.Intelligence received led...
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Kamla meets
Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar will meet Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) representatives this morning to discuss Petrotrin workers’ concerns following Government’s decision to close the...
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Mom of six strangled—autopsy
Police’s suspicion that Williamsville mother Tricia Farrow was strangled to death on Saturday was confirmed by an autopsy at the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday.However, investigators...
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Woman suspect in Pollonais case released
The Marabella woman who was arrested last week in connection with the kidnapping of Natalie Pollonais has been released by police.Investigators confirmed yesterday that the woman was questioned and...
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Mohit gives borough corruption info to Hosein
Councillor Vandana Mohit has handed over documents to Local Government Minister Kazim Hosein highlighting alleged “corrupt practices” in the Building Inspectorate department of the Chaguanas Borough...
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OWTU
Seamen and Waterfront Workers’ Trade Union (SWWTU) president Michael Annisette has proposed that Government send home 675 of the Port of Port-of-Spain’s 1,500 workers to save the state enterprise from...
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Duke to raceGalleons Passagein a pirouge
Tobago House of Assembly Minority Leader Watson Duke intends to race the US$17.4 million Galleons Passage with a pirogue when it makes its first trip from Tobago with passengers.Duke made the...
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Dr Raj can sue Customs in sex toys impasse
Businessman and sex therapist Giriraj “Raj” Ramnanan has been given the green light to pursue a lawsuit against the Comptroller of the Customs and Excise Division over the seizure of three shipments of...
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CoP defends Le Hunte in road stop incident
Tensions seem to be brewing between Police Commissioner Gary Griffith and his juniors after he intervened to an incident involving Public Utilities Minister Robert Le Hunte and the police near the...
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$.6m bail for man accused
A San Fernando contractor who allegedly sexually abused a child for five years was granted $.6 million bail when he appeared in court yesterday. Dave Friday, 51, a janitorial contractor, is alleged to...
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Lack of paper cripples court proceedings
Frustrated over the absence of printing paper in the Port-of-Spain and San Fernando Supreme Courts for the past two weeks, a judge yesterday said the Judiciary appears to be on the brink of...
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PM, UNC in fakeoil scandal uproar
“Come outside and say dat!”That was the challenge Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and other PNM MPs threw out to the Opposition UNC, as both sides clashed loudly yesterday on Rowley and the AV Drilling...
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Fuel cover for 20 days after Petrotrin refinery closed -
Upon the closure of Petrotrin’s refinery next month, there will be a 20-day supply of fuel from stock “to start with,” Energy Minister Franklin Khan has assured the travelling public.“Trust me - I want...
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No WASA, T&TEC staff cuts now—PM
Government is not “at this time” considering any staff reduction at the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) or T&T Electricity Commission (TTEC), Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has confirmed.Rowley...
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Aspiring cop fights for life
Twenty-seven-year-old security guard Stephen Andrew Gonzalves Jr had dreams of one day becoming this country’s Police Commissioner. Gonzalves had applied to the T&T Police Service (TTPS) and...
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Padarath apologises to Camille for ‘bush lawyer’ comment
Princes Town MP Barry Padarath yesterday apologised to Leader of Government Business and Planning and Development Minister Camille Robinson-Regis for calling her a “bush lawyer.”The drama unfolded in...
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