Accused denies statement
The day after he allegedly gave a statement to the police denying any knowledge of the kidnapping, subsequent death and dismemberment of businesswoman Vindra Naipaul-Coolman, one of the accused men...
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Scotiabank on regional branch closures: Severed employees will be treated fairly
Scotiabank says employees will be treated fairly when the Canadian bank closes 35 of its Caribbean offices. Paula Cufré, Scotiabank’s senior manager, International Banking Communications, stated this...
View ArticleACS official: Regional languages can increase tourist arrivals
Differences in language and culture can be assets to increasing tourist arrivals in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region, said Julio Orozco, director, sustainable tourism, Association of...
View ArticleAll in the mind
Placebos are amazing things. All schoolchildren should be taught about them. Then we might not have so many people believing in the local charlatans with their lime bud tea and the like for gastro and...
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Woman’s body found near tree
A farmer’s keen sense of smell yesterday led police to a body believed to be one of the female members of the missing family from Brasso Seco, Paria, for whom they have been searching the forest for...
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Howai wants Carmona house $$ issue settled
The Finance Ministry sees it as a matter of urgency to sort out the issue arising from the payment of a $28,000 monthly housing allowance to President Anthony Carmona. Government officials would not...
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Wayne just bones now—wife
Hunger striker Dr Wayne Kublalsingh was too weak to talk yesterday and asked his wife Dr Sylvia Moodie-Kublalsingh to answer his cellphone. “He is speaking with difficulty. He does not have much energy...
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After talks with Carmona over hunger strike protest: Project 40 hopes for...
After a two-hour meeting with President Anthony Carmona, members of the Project 40 lobby group say they are waiting for him to meet with his advisers before responding to them. Three members of the...
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Greyfriars demolition stopped
Three hours after workmen began demolishing the historic Greyfriars Church of Scotland, Frederick Street, Port-of-Spain, staff from the Port-of-Spain City Corporation yesterday ordered them to stop....
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Old PTSC buses for underwater reef
Derelict Public Transportation Services Corporation (PTSC) buses will soon be given a new lease on life, as they will be used to create artificial reefs around the coast of T&T. Yesterday Transport...
View ArticleOnly 6 auditors to inspect all government ministries
A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting in Parliament yesterday found the internal auditing function of government ministries was failing and that the Ministry of Finance’s internal auditing function...
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Ebola unit at Caura opened for inspection
Officials from the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) are expected to arrive in T&T on November 21 to carry out an inspection of the Ebola isolation unit at Caura Hospital. So said Minister of...
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Fire guts South business complex
Plumes of thick, black smoke covered La Romaine, San Fernando, yesterday evening as fire officers battled a multi-million dollar blaze that gutted a business complex. The buildings, located at Allahar...
View ArticleShoulder collapses on new highway segment
Repair works are underway to fix a collapsed segment of the new Solomon Hochoy Highway extension to Point Fortin.On Wednesday afternoon, the land under a portion of the recently opened roadway between...
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Landslip near new Golconda interchange
A social media firestorm erupted yesterday after a landslip mere metres away from the recently-opened Golconda Interchange caused a portion of the shoulder of the highway to collapse. Facebook, Twitter...
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‘Lured by land of milk, honey’
Nigerian detainee, Tine Okodeo Kings, 40, who was just released from the detention centre, is now married to a Trinidadian. Speaking to the media at the Emancipation Centre, Bergerac Road, Maraval,...
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Kambon: Horrors for migrants from Africa
Attorney Farid Scoon, who represents several African nationals detained at the National Detention Centre, Arima, claimed yesterday Guyanese and Syrian mirgrants were being given preferential treatment...
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Body of missing fisherman found
Two days after a San Fernando man went missing after diving off a boat in the Gulf of Paria his body was picked up by the Coast Guard a mile off the La Brea jetty. Deodath Goolcharan, of Retrench...
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Owner of Greyfriars: Toxic roof removed from church hall
Reports that the Greyfriars Church of Scotland on Frederick Street, Port-of-Spain, was being demolished on Tuesday are false, says the owner, Alfred Galy. In an interview yesterday at his Frederick...
View ArticleTwo get $195,000 for assault by cops
The State must pay $195,000 to two men who were beaten by police, denied food and water and released from custody after three days without being charged. John Herera, 53, a construction worker from New...
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