This is Hindu business
“Mind yuh damn business and go to hell!”This was the Indian Arrival Day message sent by secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Sat Maharaj yesterday to Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph...
View ArticleSwaha leader: Women not just roti makers
The role of the Hindu woman should not be relegated to roti maker and pholourie fryer, says Pundit Hardeo Persad, spiritual head of Swaha.Speaking at Swaha’s Indian Arrival Day Dinner and Awards at the...
View ArticlePolice group backs PM on Minister Dillon
The Police Service Social and Welfare Association has applauded Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley for his declaration that National Security Minister Edmund Dillon will not be dismissed.President Insp...
View ArticleNo word on Muslim detainees
Attorney Nafeesa Mohammed is calling for a more active relationship between T&T and the Saudi Arabia to facilitate local Muslims seeking visas for the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.Mohammed is...
View ArticleHolly B dies at 91
National icon Holly Betaudier, 91, fondly known as Holly B and the Arima Kid, has died. He reportedly passed away at around 11.15 pm on Sunday at his Glencoe home. Confirming the tragic news yesterday,...
View ArticleRat invasion at PoS prison
President of the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) Ceron Richards is threatening to take the state to court if something is not done soon about deplorable conditions at the Port-of-Spain...
View ArticleTTUTA: School as usual today
President of the T&T Unified Teachers’ Association (TTUTA) Devanand Sinanan says he has confidence in the police following reports of a recording circulating on social media warning of terrorist...
View ArticleSagewan Alli: We’re losing more than gaining
Economist Indera Sagewan-Alli says she has a responsibility to her ancestors in India and here at home to do better as that is an East Indian tradition. In an address to dozens of villagers yesterday...
View ArticleRamesh: Anti-Gang Act flawed from day one
The Anti-Gang Act in its current forms can have far-reaching consequences which can result in murder cases being thrown out, says former Attorney General Ramesh Maharaj. He said the legislation was...
View ArticleCops probe hotel theft
Officials at the Magdalena Grand Beach & Golf Resort said yesterday they are “completely sympathetic to the bride and groom who may have been victims of a theft at the hotel.” The alleged incident...
View ArticleError keeps 7 in jail overnight
Eight of the men accused of murdering businesswoman Vindra Naipaul-Coolman almost a decade ago, were yesterday acquitted at the end of the longest and most expensive trial in this country’s history. It...
View ArticleLawyers praise jury’s work
A fair and just outcome. These were the words used by both defence attorneys and prosecutors to describe the verdict in the Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder trial, which ended yesterday with eight men...
View ArticleTrini stabbed to death in NY
A 57-year-old Trinidadian woman was stabbed 83 times while at her Brooklyn, New York apartment on Saturday.She was identified as Liza Millet, a resident of the YWCA, at 30 Third Avenue in the Boerum...
View ArticleCarli Bay locked down as suspect drops grenade to evade cops
Panic engulfed the Couva community yesterday after police and soldiers locked down the area and searched the mangroves for a suspect believed to be toting a bag of weapons, including grenades.In the...
View ArticleNo retreat from Sat
“Offensive and disrespectful.”That is how former president of the Trinidad Muslim League, Dr Nasser Mustapha, yesterday described secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Sat Maharaj’s attack...
View ArticleCarmona signs off on SSA Act
President Anthony Carmona yesterday assented to the Strategic Services Amendment Act (SSA). The legislation seeks to give the SSA a wider mandate to investigate people suspected of involvement in...
View ArticleMinister’s wife seeks end to child marriages
Camille McMillan-Rambharat, wife of Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat, is leading an online public campaign to end child marriages in T&T.Using her Facebook page, McMillan-Rambharat has been...
View ArticleFriends of Cuba to US: Friends of Cuba to US:
Two months after US President Barack Obama visited Cuba as part of the process to normalise relations, he is being urged to further demonstrate his commitment to the process by immediately removing the...
View ArticleParents in protest over conditions at ‘plywood school’
Spending $50 million to aid Venezuela’s food crisis and $900,000 on a Mercedes Benz for Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley seems to be more important than the welfare of pupils attending the Siparia Union...
View ArticleLocal activists write Queen for help in fighting crime
Local activists Nalini Dial, who is leader of the National Coalition for Transformation and businesswoman Saviri Maharaj are seeking assistance from the United Kingdom in wake of the upsurge in...
View Article