Tearful plea for PM to mediate
Sitting under a tree in Woodford Square, Port-of-Spain, secretary of Fisherman and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) Gary Aboud made a tearful plea to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to mediate with the...
View ArticleNo charges for doctor in drug surgery case
No charges are to be laid against the doctor who failed to report to police he had removed cocaine pellets from a patient's stomach during an emergency procedure late last year at a private hospital....
View ArticleMissing Tobago teen back home
Missing Mason Hall Secondary School student Shenel Forbes returned home on Tuesday night. Forbes, 14, a Form Two student, said she was at a friend’s house. She was reported missing since Monday...
View ArticleBody found floating identified
The nude body of a man found floating at Cap-de-Ville beach on Sunday has been identified as psychiatric patient Kevin John. Police said John, 29, of Baptiste Road, Point Fortin, was identified by his...
View ArticleSix illegal guns seized by police
Six illegal guns were seized by police during two anti-crime exercises in west and central Trinidad between Tuesday night and yesterday morning. Five of the weapons along with a quantity of ammunition...
View ArticleMoonilal: PNM sold out to one financier
UNC deputy leader Dr Roodal Moonilal has challenged PNM leader Dr Keith Rowley to say who paid for his overseas trips this year, claiming there were 15 trips and he has information on that. He made the...
View ArticleOf mice and men
Peter Minshall I give you Gandhi and I give you Selwyn, Ralph and Raoul, and I give you Wayne, all in the same breath. “Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the...
View ArticleFixin’ T&T calls for review of legal advice
The day after the acting Police Commissioner said no charges would be brought against the doctor or patient involved in the removal of cocaine pellets from a man’s stomach last year, the pressure...
View ArticleAG on cocaine surgery case: Cops must reopen it
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan will ask the acting Commissioner of Police to continue investigations into the case of a private nursing home patient who had 20 cocaine pellets removed from his...
View ArticlePM on anti-Kublalsingh ads: Citizens free to express views
Citizens are free to express their views once they are not in breach of the law. So said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in response to questions from reporters on advertisements in the...
View ArticleCop killed in road accident
A 34-year-old police officer was killed instantly in a road accident in Chaguanas yesterday which left another man seriously injured. Special Reserve police constable Daniel Ramsaroop of Hendrickson...
View ArticleTwo women and man murdered
One woman was shot dead and another found with her throat slit and a plastic bag over her head in separate incidents on Wednesday. The body of Florentine Arneaud, 62, from St Vincent and the...
View ArticleEx-judge to head Las Alturas probe
A three-man commission of enquiry, headed by retired Justice Mustapha Ibrahim, into the PNM administration’s Las Alturas project will determine if there are grounds for criminal or civil action...
View ArticleAto Boldon sex scandal: Peris: Plot to embarrass me
Former Australian Olympic sprinter Nova Peris, now a senator, said yesterday the story of her alleged affair with former T&T Olympic sprinter Ato Boldon in 2010 was part of a plot by someone...
View ArticleKublalsingh’s hunger strike: Dookeran backs call for PM to mediate
A government minister has thrown his support behind Gary Aboud’s plea to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to mediate with the Highway Re-route Movement (HRM). Foreign Affairs Minister Winston...
View ArticleMixed response to airbridge penalty
Rosemarie Gomes, manager of Unlimited Travel and Krystal Tours, does not agree that passengers should be penalised for cancelling their reservations on the Tobago airbrige. The penalty should be for...
View ArticleQuarrel over woman leads to man’s death
A love triangle is believed to be the reason behind the murder of a 33-year-old father of four near his home in Eastern Settlement, Sangre Grande, on Thursday. His grieving father is now begging...
View ArticleParia family fears for missing relatives’ safety
Relatives of Irma Rampersad, who along with her grandchild and two of her daughters have not been seen since Sunday, are fearing the worst, as they believe their loved ones have been abducted. However,...
View ArticleAunty Hazel laid to rest
What a woman, said Neil Giuseppi, summing up the late Hazel Ward-Redman, a teacher, television producer, presenter extraordinaire, educator, guide, mentor, patriot and wife. Ward-Redman, who died on...
View ArticleTTPBA head tells Citizens 4D Highway: Unmask yourself
T&T Publishers and Broadcasters Association (TTPBA) president Daren Lee Sing has called on the group known as Citizens 4D Highway to properly unmask themselves in order to meet advertising...
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