MPs also cross swords over issue
Split views continue in Parliament on the Police Service Commission’s process to select a police commissioner.There was an unsafe, unsound and unsatisfactory procedure by the PSC in the process,...
View ArticleUNC caught napping
The election bell has been rung for the electoral districts of Barataria in the San Juan Laventille Regional Corporation and Belmont East in the Port-of-Spain City Corporation.Prime Minister Dr Keith...
View ArticleSDMS challenges ‘new’ marriage licence process
The Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) is challenging a recently introduced system of stringent background checks for new pundits seeking licences to conduct marriages.In an eight-page letter sent to...
View ArticleI was the top candidate
Former National Security Minister Gary Griffith has sent a pre-action protocol letter to Bliss Seepersad, the new chair of the Police Service Commission (PSC), arguing that the PSC under former...
View ArticleMan killed on way to funeral
A 31-year-old man was killed in a mid-morning drive-by shooting along the Eastern Main Road in Laventille yesterday.According to reports, around 10.30 am, Kern Joseph, of Picton Road, Laventille, and...
View ArticleCops seek help to id woman’s body, male gunshot victim
Police are seeking the public’s help to identify the body of a woman who was found dumped off Morne Coco Road, Maraval two weeks ago.The woman was described as being of mixed descent, light brown...
View ArticleDillon: Police unaware of gang wars in city
The T&T Police Service is not aware of any gang war pending in the Port-of-Spain division - such as between Beetham and East Port-of-Spain- but police have an action plan to deal with any...
View ArticleUSC student to be editor for the day
A third-year student of the University of the Southern Caribbean was yesterday adjudged the winner of the Guardian Editor of the Day initiative.Abigail Frances Gittens, 20, who is pursuing a bachelor’s...
View ArticleHelp police catch the killers
A pundit made a public plea yesterday urging villagers to help the police find the killers of farmer Dipchand Heeralal and Radha Baldeo.Pundit Roopnarine Maharaj told mourners at Heeralal’s funeral...
View ArticleSocial media key to election campaigns
In the build-up to the 2015 general election the People’s National Movement (PNM) had a “more targeted and aggressive” social media campaign focused on the “undecideds especially the youths” and also...
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