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Centrin sends home workers
Central Trinidad Steel Limited (Centrin) terminated the services of over 200 employees yesterday, prompting the Steel Workers Union of T&T (SWUTT) to call for the intervention of Prime Minister Dr...
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Cops: Students killed in dispute over torched car
Police are working on the theory that teenaged friends—Daniel Halls and Stephan Singh—were killed in a dispute over the torching of a car. According to police reports, around 4.40 pm on Tuesday,...
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New phone system for prison inmates
Inmates at the nation’s prisons can now make outgoing calls to relatives and friends locally and abroad.Prison officers at the Golden Grove Prison received training in the Inmate Calling Solutions...
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Rowley on escalating murder rate: Unacceptable
Urgent action is being taken to deal with the unacceptable murder rate in Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday.Rowley, who is also the chairman of the National Security...
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Dad of twin girls slain
A 19-year-old father of twin girls was killed a few houses away from his Nicholasville, Barataria, home yesterday, in what police and residents believe was a case of mistaken identity.According to...
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US applies to be made interested party
Former government minister Jack Warner’s extradition proceedings took another turn yesterday when the United States government attempted to intervene in his judicial review lawsuit challenging Attorney...
View ArticleLabour Minister: At least 846 retrenched
Approximately 846 people—and possibly more—have so far been retrenched from 27 private sector companies since September 7, 2015, Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus said yesterday.Replying in...
View ArticleWIN TV loses case
Media house WIN Caribbean Ltd has until Monday to pay almost $5 million in outstanding licensing fees to the Telecommunications Authority of T&T (TATT) or it will be forced to shut down its...
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PM pays tribute to late PNM stalwart
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley paid glowing tribute to former diplomat and senator Winston Steve Moore at his funeral service in San Fernando, yesterday. Rowley was among hundreds of mourners from all...
View ArticleSchool suspensions rise
Data regarding violent acts in secondary schools for the past three years have remained more or less the same as in 2012 when there were 1,912 cases. There were 1,709 cases in 2013, 1,405 cases in 2014...
View ArticleNo new Zika cases in T&T
There remains only one confirmed case of the Zika virus in T&T.This is after the two samples submitted to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) last week tested negative.The samples were...
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Special phone system for prisoners
Prisons Commissioner Sterling Stewart says security systems at the nation’s prisons have been beefed up with the installation of scanners and jammers.Now the inmates can no longer make phone calls on...
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Wrecking to resume in west PoS
To avoid a $500 fine and the hassle and frustration of retrieving their property, vehicle owners who park in west Port-of-Spain should avoid parking on street corners, near fire hydrants, in front of...
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Central Bank reveals: $32bn in blocked accounts
The Government has $31.9 billion in blocked accounts at the Central Bank, monies that were placed there in an attempt to sterilize excess liquidity, the bank disclosed on Friday.The Central Bank was...
View ArticleEFCL fires Shah, Maharaj
The board of the Education Facilities Company Ltd (EFCL) has taken a decision to terminate the employment of its suspended chief executive officer Sharma Maharaj and chief operations officer, Kiran...
View ArticleNew leader of PNM Tobago Council to be elected
A new political leader of the Tobago Council of the People’s National Movement (PNM) will be elected in the coming months as the party prepares for the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election in...
View ArticleWonderful World finalising probe into hijab case
The management of Wonderful World is in the process of concluding an official enquiry into the case of Njemile Webb, who accused the company of denying her a job because she wears a hijab.The company...
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Justice delayed for El Pecos victims
It’s now one year and 23 days since an explosion at the El Pecos Restaurant in Maraval left one man—John Soo Ping Chow—dead and 11 people injured and traumatised. El Pecos’ owners suffered $2.1 million...
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Two more gunned down
A man was gunned down while on his bike at Dora’s Lotto Booth, Southern Main Road, Cunupia, on Friday. Police said that at 3.30 pm on Friday, Ashton Villafana, 26, a construction worker who lives at No...
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FIU’s suspicious transactions report ‘alarmingly small’—West
Former director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) David West has raised red flags about the $354,471,532 million in suspicious transactions reported by the FIU in its 2015 report, which was...
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