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Opposition Leader knocks Rowley’s silence on crime
Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has again called out Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on the crime crisis, querying this in view of the fact the situation “now clearly out of the control of the...
View ArticleAssociation wary of results from meeting
In light of an expected meeting carded today with National Security Minister Edmund Dillon and the Prisons Service, members of the Prisons Officers Association are apprehensive whether any of the...
View ArticleWoman charged with cop’s killing
A 20-year-old woman who re-appeared in court on a gun possession matter yesterday, ended her day facing a murder charge.Khadijah Robertson was supposed to have been told by a State attorney why she was...
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We’re being sacrificed
The lives of prisons officers are daily being “sacrificed” as those in authority have continuously ignored the pleas to improve the Prisons Service.Prisons Commissioner, Sterling Stewart, in an...
View ArticleFarmers told: Beware of your environment
Senior programme co-ordinator of the Agricultural Policy and Value Chains, Juan Cheaz Pelaez, says it is important for farmers to be aware of their environment and the decision-making policies.He was...
View ArticlePrisons officer’s slaying: Cousins surrender
Two cousins, who are related to an inmate who was allegedly beaten by prison officers on Monday, have surrendered to police as the probe into the killing of superintendent David Millette continues. The...
View ArticleWorld Bank to fund insurance for fishermen
Fishermen will soon be able to relax as there is a new initiative where they can receive compensation if they are injured or suffered loss of property. The recent initiative, funded by the World Bank,...
View ArticleAlfonso backs guns for prisons officers
Former national security minister Carl Alfonso is supportive of the call by prisons officers to be given weapons to protect themselves while off duty as he believes there are now concentrated deadly...
View ArticleStewart: Too many Remand prisoners
The greatest challenge facing the Prisons Service is the growing number of Remand inmates as that figure has reach 2,000 and growing, says Prisons Commissioner Sterling Stewart during a press briefing...
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Dillon mum on time frame
National Security Minister retired Brig Edmund Dillon has said while discussions were still ongoing regarding granting prisons officers firearms, he could not commit to a time frame as to when this...
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Funeral of murdered soldier: Bishop calls for justice
Relatives of fallen solider, Cpl Shervaun Charleau, said yesterday while no-one will ever really know the circumstances that led to his untimely death last month, they would continue to pray that those...
View ArticleSchoolgirl shot in alleged sex den
An abandoned house, allegedly used as a sex and drug den by schoolchildren, became the scene of a near fatal shooting yesterday after a Marabella South Secondary schoolgirl, 17, was shot in the chest....
View ArticleSWRHA CEO on high diabetes rate: Too much fast food
Eating too much fast food and little exercise have resulted in 14 per cent of the population suffering with type two diabetes, which, according to the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) CEO...
View ArticleNew suspected swine flu death
Doctors at the San Fernando General Hospital are awaiting test results of swabs taken from a 16-year-old Couva teenager who died yesterday of suspected H1N1 influenza (swine flu).Hospital medical...
View ArticleNo live TV for Soca Monarch next year
The International Soca Monarch final will not be shown live on television in 2016. This news, which is sure to disappoint fans of the Carnival Friday staple, was one of several changes announced by...
View ArticleClean-up begins at sex hideaway
Hours after a San Fernando schoolgirl was shot inside an alleged sex and drug den at San Fernando Street, San Fernando, mattresses and sheets were carted out of the antique house by Cepep workers....
View ArticleBusinessman among five held
A Chaguanas businessman was among five people held by police after they seized more than $6 million in marijuana and cocaine in central Trinidad on Wednesday night. The group, which included a...
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Police raid crime spots
It is the sign of things to come. That was the warning from head of the Port-of-Spain Division Senior Supt Johnny Abraham following an anti-crime exercise held in east Port of Spain yesterday. Warning...
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Dillon, prisons boss to meet again on demands
Communications Minister Maxie Cuffie says National Security Minister Edmund Dillon will meet again with Prisons Commissioner Sterling Stewart in an attempt to meet the demands of the officers. He said...
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Cop shot by cop ...while clearing gun at police station
Relatives of PC Govindra Ramroop, who was shot dead by one of his colleagues at the Guapo Police Station yesterday, wants stiff penalties against the offending officer, saying it was caused by...
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