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Woman feigns amnesia in court
A woman who claimed she was attacked by her former husband with a seven-inch knife refused to testify against him yesterday because she depended on him for financial help to support their son. Tricia...
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They call him Mr Mom
Forty minutes after Seeta Boodram gave birth to her first child she died and baby Kyle was left in the care of his devastated father, Terrence Boodram. Boodram, an offshore chef, was married to Seeta...
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Two arrested for $2million marijuana find
The police arrested a 36-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman for possession of approximately $2 million worth of marijuana in Longdenville. At about 2.30 am the Arouca CID and the Arouca task force...
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Rowley shuffles MPs
She’s out. Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday fired Marlene McDonald from the post of Minister of Housing and Urban Development, revoking her appointment and making several other shifts within...
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Issues raised months into new PNM term
Marlene McDonald was first elected to the House of Representatives as the PNM’s Member for Port-of-Spain South on November 5, 2007. She was chosen as the candidate by the Patrick Manning leadership,...
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T&T not in crisis—IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which concluded its latest mission to T&T on Tuesday, said the economy was confronting a major shock as a result of the sharp fall in energy prices but was...
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Fifth Zika case in D’Abadie
The Ministry of Health has confirmed a fifth case of the Zika virus in T&T.The ministry, in consultation with the Caribbean Public Health Agency, stated the case was in the area of D’Abadie.The...
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Govt to review multiple board appointments
Government will be reviewing the practice of State corporation chairmen serving on other boards and receiving multiple stipends, Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday.His comment at yesterday’s...
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Accused acid attacker still on loose
Almost a month after a woman was doused with acid and forced to drink some of the corrosive liquid, her attacker remains on the run.On February 22, Rachel Chadee was attacked at her La Romaine home by...
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Guard gunned down at Tacarigua home
Three months after burying her last child, who died of natural causes, a 75-year-old woman yesterday will now have to bury another child, this time due to the escalating gun violence.Speaking inaudibly...
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Duke: Pay public servants now or else
PSA president Watson Duke says public servants are demanding the payment of outstanding arrears by the new PNM Government.He called a news conference to demand the workers be given their “pound of...
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Video captures El Dorado East student throwing scratch bomb into restaurant
Just hours after students set fire to the roof of the El Dorado East Secondary School, a student of the school caused panic at a restaurant on Caura junction.Video now circulating on Facebook shows a...
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Question mark over Marlene’s resignation
Will she or won’t she?Amid rising debate on whether dismissed minister Marlene McDonald should step down as PNM’s Member of Parliament for Port-of-Spain South, a brief comment from McDonald yesterday...
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Tim: Do the right thing and step down
Opposition MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh told reporters that due to the circumstances of McDonald’s issues, she should “do the right thing and step down as MP.” He said the Opposition would call for her to do...
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Query on Kamla’s relatives employed at her Siparia office
Allegations surfaced last night that two relatives of former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar are employed at her Penal constituency office.The news came last night in a CNC3 report, two days...
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While former PNM Port-of-Spain South nominee Louis Lee Sing insists dismissed minister Marlene McDonald should step down as the area’s MP—and a by-election be held—another former nominee Isha Wells...
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Mitchell ready for housing job
Eight years after he joined the PNM, attorney Randall Mitchell has already replaced two of the PNM’s biggest stalwarts and is now holding one of the top frontline ministerial portfolios in T&T- the...
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Novel way to feed homeless
ReThink yesterday launched the Feed the Need for Happiness initiative by feeding between 50 and 100 Port-of-Spain street dwellers and hungry individuals with wholesome restaurant food that would have...
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Headless body identified from police database
Relatives of Eden Nekeisha Teesdale, whose headless corpse was found stuffed in a barrel near the Mitan River in Manzanilla, believe her gruesome murder could have been a crime of passion.Teesdale, 26,...
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Security officer killed at worksite
Security supervisor Max Martin should have been spending yesterday at home with his family, but reported for duty to fill in for an ill colleague and was shot dead by bandits.Although police believe...
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