No leads yet in $m warehouse fire
Chief Fire Officer Kenny Gopaul says investigators have not yet determined the cause of Monday’s fire which destroyed businesses at a warehouse in El Socorro. The fire broke out at one business place...
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Bringing back life to obsolete computers
Like everything else, computers have a life span. When that time is up, most people take the machines to the dump and upgrade to newer models. But Restore a Sense of I Can (RSC), a non-profit...
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T&T’s hot pepper king heating up New York, Miami
Young farmer, Nawaz Karim, is fast emerging as the hot pepper king of T&T and is even heating up New York and Miami with his special brand of Moruga Reds. Karim, 34, plants four acres of carefully...
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US report: "T&T achieves considerable gains in fight against narcotics; major...
The United States Department of State says T&T has made considerable accomplishments in the fight against illegal narcotics in 2015, including the extradition of a major drug trafficker.Its...
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‘Evil’ in prison system
Prisons Commissioner Sterling Stewart said yesterday he could not guarantee his officers’ safety since the prison system, and by extension the country, is being held to ranson by gang leaders who could...
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Trini’s ‘gun’ heels seized at airport
Trinidadian Kashma Maharaj made headline news all over the world yesterday, as the woman who tried to go through an international airport checkpoint with gun-themed shoes and two bracelets lined with...
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We’ll only pay valid debts
Prime Minister Keith Rowley yesterday conceded that the government owed money to many contractors but he challenged the circumstances in which some of that debt was incurred and said there was a...
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PM defends decision to drop Jones lawsuit
Prime Minister Rowley yesterday defended the decision by Government to discontinue a lawsuit brought by the previous administration against former Petrotrin chairman Malcolm Jones for the ill-fated...
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Getting to classes just as risky
Students from some crime hotspots risk their lives just to get to school and are also faced with gang culture at school.So said the principal of Barataria South Secondary School, Sharlene...
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Too stink to think
Traffic came to a standstill in the busy Claxton Bay area yesterday as frustrated students, accompanied by their parents, blocked the Sum Sum Hill Main Road to complain once again about the closure of...
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Opposition knocks Govt’s crime plan
The Opposition has called for Government to facilitate a local or regional consultation on crime and use citizens’ suggestions in addressing the problem.In a statement, United National Congress...
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PNM moves to strike out ‘late’ election petition
A High Court judge has reserved her decision on whether one of the United National Congress’ (UNC) six election petitions challenging the result of last year’s general election should be struck out due...
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Drop all trade union cases too
Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancil Roget is challenging the Government to immediately discontinue pending court matters against trade unions just as they did for former...
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Imbert knocked over interference
Finance Minister Colm Imbert was “out of place” to ask First Citizens bank for a report on compliance with financial obligation regulations, since the Central Bank is the local bank’s regulatory body...
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Woman found with throat slit
Southern Division police are probing the murder of a woman who was yesterday found with her throat slit at a housing construction site in San Fernando.The woman remained unidentified up to press time...
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HDC, EFCL main companies owing contractors $b debt
President of the T&T Contractors Association (TTCA) Mikey Joseph says contractors are owed between $1.5 and $1.7 billion by the Government and he has identified the Housing Development Corporation...
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Murdered prisons officer contemplated resigning
Prisons officer Fitzalbert Victor had been thinking about resigning from his job mere weeks before he was murdered, said one of his colleagues.Speaking at the funeral service for the officer at...
View ArticlePolice body demand backpay by monthend
Police officers are threatening to turn up the heat over the seven-month delay in their backpay and have given the State until the end of the month to pay the money owing.This from the leadership of...
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Pensioner perishes as fire guts home
Despite neighbours climbing a ladder and hosing a raging fire, pensioner Fyzool Mohammed suffered a cruel fate when he burned and died inside his Diamond Village home on Thursday night.Mohammed, 73,...
View ArticlePolice hunt ear biter
After a man had bitten off a piece of his landlord’s ear on Wednesday night, he reportedly dangled the bloody part in front of neighbours telling them he was going to eat it. “Ah feel I would eat it...
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