Mafeking clean-up in full swing
Residents in the flood-ravaged village of Mafeking spent the better part of their day yesterday cleaning up and throwing out flood-soaked furniture and appliances. Some of them washed and scrubbed...
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Game on! Soca Warriors call off boycott of CFU final
Game on!That’s the assurance now being given by the captain of the Soca Warriors, Kenwynne Jones.Speaking with the T&T Guardian a short while ago, Jones said he was contacted by the Minister of...
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Rescued teens leave hospital
The surviving two sisters of the Brasso Seco family who were abducted on the night of October 26 were discharged from the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, yesterday, four days after...
View ArticleMan sexually assaults girl, 9, in school
Police yesterday arrested a 20-year-old man after he stormed into the Scarborough RC School armed with a knife and sexually assaulted a nine-year-old student.According to police, around 1.30 pm the man...
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Grande/Mayaro taxi fares hiked to $40
Taxi drivers working the Mayaro to Sangre Grande route have increased their fares by $28 a passenger as they now have to use an alternative route after flood waters washed away about four miles of the...
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Carmona earned more as a judge
Before he was sworn in as the fifth President of the Republic, former judge Anthony Carmona earned over TT$150,000 a month as a sitting judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He resigned as a...
View ArticleCPO agreed on $15,540 a month in 2013
At the time the Chief Personnel Officer (CPO) agreed to the President’s Housing allowance in July 2013, the allowance was $15,540 a month and not $28,000 monthly to which the Salaries Review Commission...
View ArticleAG questions Rowley’s silence on housing $$
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan yesterday challenged Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley to give details of the House Committee parliamentary meeting which Rowley claimed discussed the $28,000 housing...
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Integrity stops Milshirv probe
The Integrity Commission has terminated its probe into the Tobago House of Assembly’s construction of its Milshirv administrative complex, citing insufficient grounds for continuing the investigation....
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Senate pays tribute to Mansoor
Government, Opposition and President of the Senate Timothy Hamel-Smith paid tribute to the late former independent Senator Michael Mansoor yesterday.He died of cancer on November 11 after being ill for...
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Azmon looks like a woman
The country’s most wanted man, Azmon Alexander, is eluding capture by dressing like a woman, complete with wig and clean-shaven face, and is being assisted by relatives who live along the Blanchisseuse...
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School sex attack suspect in court
The suspect held in connection with the sexual assault of a nine-year-old student at the Scarborough Roman Catholic School on Tuesday is due to appear in court today. The man, 19, will appear, even as...
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Still 2,000 suspected ChikV cases, says Fuad
There have been 164 confirmed cases of chikungunya and 2,000 suspected cases in T&T, Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan says. Replying to Opposition MP Dr Amery Browne’s questions in Parliament...
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Court rules: NP must rehire 68 workers
Industrial Court judges yesterday ruled that the termination of 68 workers by state-owned oil company National Petroleum (NP) was “harsh and oppressive” and ordered the company to reinstate them. The...
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PM on Roopnarine’s e-mail: Suruj has no role in award of contracts
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has said, thus far, allegations contained in an e-mail sent to her by junior Works Minister Stacy Roopnarine on a contract bidding issue have not been evidenced in...
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Residents still angry months after oil spill
Marabella resident Akimoo Roger says his son, daughter and wife are still sick and is calling on state-owned oil company Petrotrin to release medical reports and provide compensation for residents. In...
View ArticleDookeran lists recalled envoys
Foreign Service officers of various levels and new ambassadors are heading T&T’s missions in the UK, Canada, India, Costa Rica and the United Nations mission in New York, according to information...
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Suruj admits Manzan needs major work: Worse than we thought
The Mayaro-Manzanilla flood damage is far more extensive than initially thought, Works and Transport Minister Suruj Rambachan admitted yesterday. As such, Government will be transporting pumps into the...
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Locals vex over contract award
Local Content Chamber president Lennox Sirjuesingh has taken issue with the announcement that a Danish firm is being considered to address the collapse of the Manzanilla/Mayaro road. Works and...
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Family living in ‘jail’ as police hunt Azmon
Having committed no crime, faced no judge or jury, an Arima family is now in jail. Unlike the Maximum Security Prison, their holding cells are not located behind high walls and barbed wire fences but...
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