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AG: No threat to press freedom
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Faris Al-Rawi says the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) cannot intercept calls and spy on citizens as was being claimed by the Opposition.Speaking during...
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Union calls on minister to help save buffalypso
The All Trinidad General Workers Trade Union (ATGWTU) is calling on Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat to investigate issues affecting workers at the Mora Valley Farm and the Sugarcane Feed...
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Crime out of hand
The owner of the Claxton Bay bar where a teen bandit was beaten so badly by his “victims” that he never regained consciousess after he was hospitalised feels no joy he is dead.However, Phoolmatie John...
View ArticleRoget must pay $.3m to ex-NP manager
Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget has been ordered to pay $360,000 in compensation for defaming a former manager of the National Petroleum Marketing Company Ltd (NP)....
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WASA owes suppliers $257m
The cash-strapped Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) owes its contractors and suppliers $257 million.While the authority’s chairman, Romney Thomas, admitted that WASA has not been paying its...
View ArticleFirm sues State for over $1b
A civil engineering company is suing a state enterprise for over $1.2 billion in unpaid bills.The lawsuit, possibly the largest ever brought by a private company against the State, was filed in the...
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Armed robberies, assaults on increase
There is an increase in robberies and assaults, both with the use of guns, senior officers in the Northern Division said yesterday, during a media briefing following the seizure of three guns and 45...
View ArticleVictim Support head: Children abused at alarming rate
Children are being abused at an alarming rate and the homes entrusted to look after them are bursting at the seams.So said head of the Victim and Witness Support Unit, Margaret Sampson-Browne, who made...
View ArticleJudge: State fears fallout over abortion dilemma
High Court Justice Frank Seepersad has weighed in on the public conversation on abortion, saying the dilemma is between the church and the State and the fear of political fallout if the perceived wrong...
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Deyalsingh: I can permit medical marijuana imports
Days after Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi announced that Government had begun the statistical groundwork on decriminalising marijuana possession, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh confirmed that he...
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Petrotrin retirees seek better pension deal
State-owned oil and gas company Petrotrin said it remains conscious of its responsibility to retired workers who protested outside its Pointe-a-Pierre administration office on Thursday, for an increase...
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Major rivers still to be cleared
With the 2016 rainy season creeping in earlier than expected, regional corporations throughout the country are still struggling to clear waterways, including tributaries and drains.However, they claim...
View ArticleTwo men robbed in central
Police are investigating two robberies which took place in central Trinidad on Friday.Around 12.15 pm, 30-year-old Nicholas Loraine was robbed of $40,000 while conducting a transaction at an automotive...
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Girl, 12, claims rape attack led to pregnancy
Police have opened an investigation into who was responsible for the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl who recently gave birth to a baby boy at the San Fernando General Hospital. The probe is,...
View ArticleInter-Religious Organisation to discuss abortion today
Members of the Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO) are expected to meet today to discuss the controversial topic of abortion, in order to possibly put forward recommendations on a way forward to the...
View ArticleCulture of safe driving needed
President of the T&T Automobile Association Rawle Mahabir says there is no need to increase this country’s speed limit, as the current 80 kilometres per hour is sufficient. He made the appeal...
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MATT blames cops for attack on journalist
The T&T Police Service (TTPS) is being blamed for last Thursday’s attack on Guardian photographer Rishi Ragoonath and ought to take responsibility, the Media Association of T&T (MATT)...
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Family begs for farmer’s return
Convinced that Palo Seco missing farmer Vijay Ramoutar was abducted, his worried relatives yesterday appealed to his abductors to release him.Issuing a heartfelt appeal, his cousin Linda...
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Deyalsingh to launch education drive soon: Breast milk’s better option
Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh says women should not be ashamed about breastfeeding their children in public. “It is a natural human response and I support breastfeeding totally because it is...
View Article6 Mother’s Day babies in south
Holding their bundle of joy after months of anticipation was the best Mother’s Day gift six mothers at the San Fernando General Hospital could have asked for yesterday.While they were hoping to spend...
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