Beating Isis
Orin GordonEditor-in-ChiefWith exquisite bad timing, President Barack Obama declared, in an interview with ABC News early on Friday, that the US and its allies had contained Isis. Then Friday night’s...
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Rowley, Kamla send condolences
No Trinis have so far been reported injured or dead following Friday’s horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign and Caricom Affairs.The ministry...
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Paris tries to breathe again
As tends to happen in major cities after terrorist attacks, life in Paris yesterday morning continued almost as normal. Despite the recommendations by security forces that Parisians stay inside, the...
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Beetham Wastewater deal under review
The details of the billion-dollar Beetham Wastewater Treatment facility contract are currently being reviewed by the National Gas Company (NGC). In response to questions by the Sunday Guardian, NGC...
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ISIS pursuing Trini foothold
Criminologist Daurius Figueira is warning that T&T Muslims recruited by ISIS could be used to infiltrate and destabilise western countries, including those in Europe coping with an influx of...
View ArticleMan killed, 2 hurt in nightclub attack
A 28-year-old taxi driver who agreed to take two men to a nightclub in Port-of-Spain was ambushed and killed yesterday morning.According to police, Tyrike George, of Le Platte Village, Maraval, had...
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Blueprint for future attacks
T&T born UK-based terrorism expert Candyce Kelshall has warned that last Friday’s deadly Paris attack is the new blueprint for future terrorist attacks.The death toll stood at well over 100 from...
View ArticlePlayer shot while celebrating SSFL win
A 17-year-old student, who was out celebrating his team’s Secondary Schools’ Football League victory over St Benedict’s College, was wounded when a bar patron ran into the road and fired shots wildly...
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Hit by truck, crushed by passing cars
A 25-year-old Chaguanas man yesterday survived an accident after his van slammed into a median near Grand Bazaar, Valsayn but as he emerged from the wreck he was hit by a truck.Seconds later, another...
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89 Trinis join Isis fighters
There are now 89 T&T nationals—including families—known to Government who have joined the Islamic State of Iraq (Isis) in the last three plus years, T&T Guardian has confirmed.That is the most...
View ArticleCarmona: T&T stands together with France
President Anthony Carmona has extended condolences to the victims of the Paris bombings on behalf of the people of T&T. In a media release by the President’s office yesterday detailed a 15-minute...
View ArticlePM: Action needed now on $1.2b Beetham project
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday called for immediate action on the $1.2b Beetham Waste Water project. His statements came on the heels of a Sunday Guardian story which said the project was...
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Now Moonilal condemns text-for-votes campaign
Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal says he fears the United National Congress internal elections will not be fair after learning that an election committee member participated a strategy meeting for...
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St Helena’s genius boy
GML Enterprise Team MICHAEL RAMSINGH and OTTO CARRINGTONImagine at five years old being able to read fluently, carry a conversation with adults and do multiplication without any real effort. Well it’s...
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Sat joins PM at Divali function
Hindu leaders, including one of his fiercest critics Satnarayn Maharaj, were among selected guests hosted by Prime Minister Keith Rowley at a post-Divali function at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s on...
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Forget God and do it yourself
My name is Irtha Daniel and I do many things!I’m born and raised in Trinidad but I’ve lived in Tobago for the last five years. I first fell in love with Tobago’s beauty: every day you wake up, it’s...
View ArticleHuman trafficking in T&T
Zwena Carrington Student, Hugh Wooding Law School In T&T, human trafficking is referred to as trafficking in persons. ‘Trafficking in persons’ and ‘trafficking in children’ are serious offences...
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Man stabs wife and daughter before killing himself
Police are currently on the scene of a murder/suicide in Penal where a 25-year-old man stabbed his wife and three-year-old daughter before hanging himself. Reports are that Premanth Ramkhelawan was...
View ArticleVasant accuses media of being bought out
As the UNC elections race heats up, leadership contender Vasant Bharath is drawing the media into the battle, charging many of its practitioners have been bought out by his political rivals.During an...
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TT now more at risk than in 1990—PM
After what was witnessed in France last Friday, those in T&T who experienced the 1990 failed coup attempt “must know that we are not just vulnerable but we are more vulnerable now than in 1990,”...
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