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3,000 waiting for farm land leases
Acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, Joy Persad-Myers, said yesterday that 3,000 applicants have been awaiting the issuance of agricultural leases by the...
View ArticleSenators not keen on more power for SSA
Members of both the Opposition and Independent benches yesterday spoke out against proposed amendments to give the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) a wider mandate to gather information on an increased...
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T&T never had scorpion anti-venom—Deyalsingh
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has dismissed as unfounded the theory that the country has run out of antidote for scorpion venom.“Let me make it crystal clear, T&T never had scorpion...
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Clico posts performance after pressure: Healthy $5b 2014 profit
Colonial Life Insurance Company Ltd posted profits of $5.2 billion at the end of December 2014, according to the company’s latest financial statements. The T&T Guardian obtained the information...
View ArticleRamdeen on SSA Bill: Journalists can become ‘targets’
Government’s Strategic Services Agency (SSA) Amendment Bill could mean the end of media freedom, since journalists researching issues, collecting information and dealing with politically sensitive...
View ArticleMan killed in San Juan gang war identified
The man who was killed on Monday night in San Juan is 20-year-old Marcus Friday who went to visit his friend, Karin Grant, 19, when the two were ambushed and killed in what police believe was the...
View ArticleSpeed guns not on T&T’s roads yet
Motorists are being given more time to get into the habit of driving within the speed limit of 80kph as acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams is yet to give directives to police officers to...
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Call for new look at abortion laws
Amid increased calls to legalise abortions which have been sanctioned by former health minister Dr Fuad Khan and advisory director of the Family Planning Association Dr Jacqueline Sharpe, Roman...
View ArticleFamily, lawyers remember Dana
Two years after former Independent senator Dana Seetahal, SC, was murdered her friends and colleagues are still perplexed as to the reason for her brutal assassination. Speaking at a ceremony to...
View ArticleAuditor General report: 21 cellphones costing $102,000 ‘gone missing’
The “custody” of 21 cellphones purchased by the former justice ministry—which dealt with prisons and related matters—could not be determined after purchase, according to the latest Auditor General’s...
View ArticlePublishers see threat to press freedom
President of the T&T Publishers and Broadcasters Association, Daren Lee Sing, has put industry practitioners on alert citing possible threats to press freedom, based on proposed legislation...
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All in place for today’s SEA
All systems have been put in place for today’s Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) in which 18,215 pupils have been registered to write the exam.Seeking to allay the fears of pupils and their parents,...
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Bar patrons ‘went too far’
Eight days after being beaten during a robbery at a Claxton Bay bar, Curtis Pierre, 16, succumbed to his injuries at the Intensive Care Unit of the San Fernando General Hospital.Pierre was one of two...
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Woman describes attacker before death
Police have launched a manhunt for a second suspect in the attempted rape and murder of a 24-year-old Eastern Regional Health Authority employee yesterday.Nerissa Nickey Goora, 24, a clerk at Sangre...
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Clico still insolvent
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday that Clico still has a deficit of close to $1 billion and the insurer’s 2014 after-tax profit of $5.13 billion was just an “accounting transaction” resulting...
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$10,000 fine for gun jammers
Police are warning citizens that any attempt to jam their radar signals from speed detection guns with the use of electronic devices is illegal and can cost you ten times the amount of a speeding...
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‘Worse than we anticipated’
Director of the Children’s Authority Sharifa Ali-Abdullah yesterday revealed that 5,500 sexual abuse, neglect, physical abuse and lack of care and guardianship cases were reported to the authority in...
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Abortions allowed to save mothers
As the public debate on abortion continues in T&T, Medical Chief of Staff of Mt Hope Women’s Hospital Dr Karen Sohan says that the laws of T&T allows abortion for medical reasons.Speaking with...
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Murder victim’s body flown home
Generous Trinidadians have responded to an appeal by Guyanese national Kumar Shivpersaud to help send the body of his murdered friend and countryman Khemraj Persaud back home for burial.Persaud’s body...
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Former highway workers in dark
Retrenched OAS Construtora employees are calling on the company to break their silence over retroactive salaries and severance pay. Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union shop steward and former safety...
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