Dillon seeks greater role for spy agency to suppress crime
National Security Minister Edmund Dillon yesterday admitted that crime was intolerable in T&T and said the mandate of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) must be expanded to deal with the...
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DPP hamstrung by lack of budget
The inability of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to manage its own finances is one of the reasons cited for delays in the criminal justice system. Addressing a meeting of the...
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Police launch probe against Marlene
The T&T Police Service has initiated a criminal investigation into allegations of fraud and misconduct levelled against Port-of-Spain South MP Marlene McDonald.McDonald, the former minister of...
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Kamla: Family ‘properly employed’ by my office
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar sought to clear the air yesterday over allegations that she employed two relatives at her Siparia constituency office. While she admitted there were two...
View ArticlePadarath to repay Parliament $60,000 for hiring relative
Apart from Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, two other Opposition UNC MPs had relatives employed at their respective constituency offices in this current parliamentary term, and a third UNC MP...
View ArticleMinistry loses CAC music scores
There have been renewed calls by the T&T Unified Teachers’ Association (TTUTA) to scrap the Continuous Assessment Component (CAC) of the Secondary Entrance Assessment Examination (SEA).This follows...
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Woman beaten after being given bad drive
A Gran Couva woman is demanding justice after an irate motorist attacked her and her family following a bad drive on Friday.Michelle Roxanne Ramdoolar, a student at the Arthur Lok Jack School of...
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Police probe teacher’s murder
Investigations are continuing into the murder of a 38-year-old secondary schoolteacher at Maracas, St Joseph.The deceased was identified as Sherwin Wallace of Fairley Street, Tunapuna.According to a...
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T&T food crisis looming
T&T does not produce enough food to feed its population.In fact, if women were to take the advice given by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to “learn to peel cassava” in an attempt to cut spending,...
View ArticleMinistry slams maxi taxi abuse of PBR permits
In response to recent media reports concerning the issuance of Priority Bus Route passes to certain maxi taxi operators, the Ministry of Works and Transport wishes to provide some clarification of the...
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Machel, Skinny Fabulous ‘Go Hard’ on ESPN
T&T’s Machel Montano and St Vincent’s Skinny Fabulous are today smiling from ear to ear no doubt, having recently sealed a deal with ESPN’s publishing rep, PILOT, for the use of their collaborative...
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Hosein to Govt on economy: Stop the talk, take some real action
Q: Dr Hosein, which is most appropriate to describe our economic condition today: recession, regression, downturn, or what have you?A: (In his office at the St Augustine Campus of the University of the...
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Mom of murdered boy: I begged police for help
Forced to go into hiding after witnessing a contraband deal, 14-year-old Darian Nedd finally met his death yesterday, after two men chopped off his limbs with a cutlass and then set fire to his home,...
View ArticleRetrenched Repsol workers plan legal action
Spanish energy giant Repsol may be taken to the Industrial Court for unfair dismissal by former employees, who were retrenched following a decision by the parent company in October 2015 to lay off...
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Cops probe beating at PoS nightclub
Yet another attack on a young partygoer at a nightclub in Port-of-Spain has left 22-year-old Nicholas Grillet badly wounded and in excruciating pain. He was allegedly beaten by bouncers attached to the...
View ArticleMP calls on House Clerk: Clarify hiring of staff
Calling: the Clerk of the House of Representatives!Amid moves by Fixin T&T to get the Integrity Commission and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to examine several Opposition MPs’ hiring of...
View ArticleMinister: 21 students to be removed from El Do Sec
Twenty one students are to be removed from the El Dorado East Secondary School and sent to the Couva Learning Enhancement Centre by the end of this week. Education Minister Anthony Garcia confirmed...
View ArticleChag North students first to be extracted
This new method of removing students to be rehabilitated external to the school was first employed on February 22, at the Chaguanas North Secondary School. Approximately 24 students were removed less...
View ArticleStillborn baby incinerated unknown to parents
Two senior nurses at the Women’s Hospital in Mount Hope are currently under investigation and are expected to face disciplinary action in connection with the body of a premature baby that went...
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Mittal worker tells of life after retrenchment
When Desiree Blackman, 32, of Embacadere, San Fernando, lost her job as an administration clerk at ArcelorMittal, her 70-year-old father, Horace, became the family’s sole breadwinner. And this is what...
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