Clik here to view.
I cannot be upstaged
Tourism Minister Shamfa Cudjoe says she cannot be upstaged by anyone. She was responding to allegations that former Tourism Development Company (TDC) chairman Dennise Demming tried to upstage her in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
$1m death benefit for slain cops by June, says PM
By the end of June, plans should be operationalised for retroactive payment of the $1 million death benefit to the families of protective services officers killed in the line of duty, Prime Minister Dr...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letter penned to Maduro
Relatives of five T&T nationals detained in Venezuela on alleged terrorism charges for two years are appealing to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who will be here on Monday, to release the...
View ArticleKamla supports end to child marriages
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is expressing full support for ending child marriages in T&T, saying it was not a religious issue but an inappropriate cultural practice which must be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Man murdered over religion
Two men arguing over religion on Thursday night ended with one dead and the other being sought by police for his killing. There were 188 murders up to late yesterday.Police said Clint Julien, 36, of...
View ArticleThree murders in under 24 hours
Three people, including two teenagers, were gunned down in separate incidents in South and Central Trinidad in less than 24 hours, with one murder taking place in front of a secondary school in broad...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Prison officials promise to keep Surajbally safe
All necessary measures have been put in place to ensure Reeshie Surajbally, the man accused of kidnapping and sexual indecency with two girls, is not harmed in prison.The assurance came from Prisons...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hinds: PP sat on US$120m loan to fight flooding
Minister of Works and Transport Fitzgerald Hinds yesterday accused the former People’s Partnership (PP) government of securing a US$120 million loan to solve widespread flooding in the capital city...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Talks to start on lay-off of agriculture workers
Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries are set to meet with officials of the National Union of Government and Federated Workers (NUGFW) to decide the fate of 67 employees on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Venezuelans in T&T struggle to send goods home
Venezuelan nationals living in T&T are attempting to send medicine and basic health supplies with family and friends who are travelling to Venezuela. However, most of these supplies are being...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Avinash tells farmers: Sell cocoa locally
Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture Avinash Singh is advising cocoa farmers to sell their beans to local chocolatiers rather than leave them wasting in the fields. He did so in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Opposition queries $.4m cheque to Garcia’s nephew
The Opposition is questioning the haste with which the State-owned Urban Development Corporation of T&T (Udecott) honoured a $.4 million bill in the name of its chairman’s nephew.Kerwyn Garcia, the...
View Article12 foreign women held for lewd dancing
A dozen female foreign nationals were detained by police for “lewd and suggestive” dancing at a bar in Sangre Grande yesterday morning.The bar’s owner and a man who is said to have brought the women to...
View ArticleOpposition, Govt MPs fail to file IC declarations
Former prime minister Patrick Manning has not filed his declarations with the Integrity Commission since 2011.The Integrity Commission yesterday provided a list of the names of people in public life...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Central rivalling East PoS for badjohn status
The quieter profile now in force in central Trinidad as a result of joint police/army patrols belies the badlands image the area has carried lately.When Prime Minister Keith Rowley noted in Parliament...
View ArticleClik here to view.
100 jobs with new JTA supermarket at C3 Centre
One hundred new jobs have been created with the opening of the fifth branch of JTA Supermarket at C3 Centre, Corinth, Ste Madeleine, yesterday.Scores of customers crowded the entrance as south...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Venezuelan ‘bachacs’ sell goods at exorbitant prices
Mexico has its “coyotes” or human smugglers who smuggle people illegally across the border into the US. Venezuela has its “bachaqueros” or human bachacs, highly mobile black marketeers on motorcycles...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Soldier Barry sues over SoE arrest
Bryan “Soldier Barry” Barrington, one of the men detained in 2011 in connection with an alleged plot to kill then prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and members of her Cabinet, has secured a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Govt not paying health suppliers
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh is failing to tell the public that the Government has not been paying suppliers for the necessary chemical reagents needed to screen blood, says medical practitioner...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deosaran: CoP acting record an embarrassment
Former chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) Prof Emeritus Ramesh Deosaran says the acting appointments of this country’s Police Commissioner is “an undue embarrassment and quite likely, a...
View Article