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Counter proposal ready by May 31
Finance Minister Colm Imbert will communicate with the police, fire and prisons associations by May 31 on final decisions concerning all matters they have raised, including requests for housing or land...
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Chief Justice: Two juvenile courts by year’s end
Two juvenile courts—one in Trinidad and the other in Tobago—are expected to be established and operational by year’s end.This was an assurance given on Thursday by the Chief Justice Ivor Archie.Archie...
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Contribute to help build balisier complex
Members of the ruling PNM have been asked to contribute “beyond their means “to help build the party’s new Eric Williams Memorial Complex at Balisier courtyard, expected to be finished by the next...
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Prisoners, police in stand-off
The security booth inside the Golden Grove prison was set on fire by inmates yesterday as a near riot erupted in the exercise yard of the Remand Prison, the Sunday Guardian has learned.The situation...
View ArticleTrincity man held for rape of Jamaican woman
A 38-year-old construction worker has been charged with the rape of a Jamaican national in Trinidad.The man was arrested at his Trincity home on Thursday morning by officers of the Chaguanas CID and...
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Reformed inmates mentor youth
Prisons Commissioner Sterling Stewart says reformed prisoners in the various prisons are mentoring youths to stay away from crime and warning them that there is no future in crime.He was speaking to...
View Article$34m MRI machine too small for some patients
JOEL JULIENjoel.julien@guardian.co.ttThe wrong-sized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, valued $34 million, has been installed at the Scarborough General Hospital.As a result of this, dozens of...
View ArticleGroup urges 120kmph speed limit
An online group, Safe Drivers for Efficiency, has created a petition for the Government to increase the speed limit on highways to 120 kilometres per hour (kmph.)The petition comes one day after Works...
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Centrin worker’s funeral delayed
Confused, frustrated and heartbroken is how Chandrawatie Nandlal, the common-law wife of former Centrin worker David Francis, says her family feels after a High Court injunction was granted late Friday...
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Put people before buildings
Valdeen Shears-NeptuneIt was a case of repetitions, as far as residents of Trincity and environs were concerned, following the close of a meeting with a team sent by Bhagwansingh Hardware and Steel...
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Duprey’s plan caters $10b for policyholders
The plan by CL Financial (CLF) majority shareholder Lawrence Duprey to repay the group’s “bailout” debt to Government involves the creation of two Clico entities, one of which should have a total asset...
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House to tighten up MPs’ hiring practices
Moves are being made by the Parliament to improve constituency management arrangements and to ensure MPs comply with the parliament’s guidelines manual on this.And it’s possible the guidelines will be...
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TCL chairman sells off his $33m in shares
JOEL JULIEN joel.julien@guardian.co.ttThe Trinidad Cement Limited Group (TCL) chairman Wilfred Espinet’s sale of all of his “direct holdings” in TCL has raised some eyebrows among shareholders of that...
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Millions on empty office buildings
Several million was paid by various People’s Partnership government ministries in rent for certain unoccupied buildings over 2014 to 2015, including large sums for a St Clair property leased by the...
View ArticleFour in court on kidnaping charge after 12 years
Twelve years after four people were charged with kidnapping four-year-old Saada Singh from her Vistabella school, the matter has not yet been set for trial.Yesterday, the matter came up on the cause...
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Cashier shot dead in San Juan gunfire
A 19-year-old cashier was shot dead on Monday night as gunmen opened fire on two men killing her as she went to throw garbage outside her home in San Juan. According to police, around 9 pm police were...
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Man killed in front his wife and baby
Seventeen-year-old Amy Babwah grabbed her sleeping baby and hid behind a wardrobe as gunmen pumped multiple bullets into her husband’s body after storming their Marabella home on Monday night.The...
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Common-law wife advises women: Make sure he gets a divorce
After three failed attempts, two autopsies and a court battle over the body, fired Centrin worker David Francis, who was found hanging at his Couva home two weeks ago, will finally be laid to rest...
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‘AG did nothing wrong on ganja statement’
Former attorney general Garvin Nicholas says an Attorney General’s role goes further than “only acting when told to do so.”Nicholas made the point yesterday in applauding AG Faris Al-Rawi for his...
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Hezekiah remembered as true servant of God
As a man with no letters behind his name, Fr Reginald Hezekiah was described yesterday as indistinguishable from the masses as he obeyed the call by God to serve in the priesthood.Delivering the homily...
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