Drive to get rid of illegal guns
At its current trend, this country will experience the lowest total of reported serious crimes in 30 years, says acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams. He was speaking at Riverside Plaza,...
View ArticleAgricultural society vehicles to be seized
Police officers were called in yesterday to take possession of all vehicles and equipment belonging to the Agricultural Society of T&T currently in use by the now defunct executive. This action...
View ArticleAll’s set for JTUM city march today
A second Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) march against corruption is expected to come off today. Head of JTUM and president general of the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) Ancel Roget is...
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Lee Sing blanked
Former Port-of-Spain mayor Louis Lee Sing will not work with incumbent MP and chosen candidate for Port-of-Spain South, Marlene McDonald. He and former councillor Isha Wells were both blanked by the...
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Father of teen killed in crash: Don’t use PH taxis
The father of the schoolboy killed in an accident on Wednesday is appealing to schoolchildren to use the transport provided to them by their schools and stop traveling in PH taxis. Keith Lewis, of...
View ArticleCudjoe in favour of tougher rules to protect children
Quoting Psalm 127, Tobagonian PNM Senator Shamfa Cudjoe said she came from a culture and community that believed children were wealth and happiness. She said she was the fourth of eight children and...
View ArticleGangs target rehab centres—De Coteau
Incidents have occurred over the past year at rehabilitation centres in which unsuitable people belonging to gangs were reportedly attempting to visit or make contact with young residents of the...
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Energy Minister: Gas supply to improve slightly in 2015
A slight improvement in gas production in T&T is expected in 2015, Energy and Energy Affairs Minister Kevin Ramnarine forecast at a Petroleum Economist hydrocarbon strategy forum at the Hyatt...
View ArticleLow wages can’t buy quality security
As Mr Ancel Roget said on a morning TV show: “There are too many incompetent people in jobs in this country that causing the poor performance and low productivity in the private and public sectors.”...
View ArticleTwo babies die in tragic circumstances
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two toddlers in separate incidents at their homes in east Trinidad between Saturday afternoon and yesterday morning. In the first...
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11 sent back to West Africa
Despite mounting a last-ditch legal challenge against their deportations, a group of illegal immigrants were yesterday sent back to West Africa aboard a Caribbean Airlines charter flight. The 11 men...
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Kambon: Move came like a thief in night
Chairman of the Emancipation Support Committee Kafra Kambon has lashed out against the manner in which 11 illegal Ghanaians were deported around 4 am yesterday. Describing the move as “disgusting” and...
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Saboteurs strike on highway site
Security guards attached to the highway construction project are scared after masked saboteurs set fire to a multi-million-dollar crane at the OAS highway job site in Point Fortin, as a warning to the...
View ArticleSharma, Glenn, Anil out PP election race
Fallen ministers Chandresh Sharma, Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh and Anil Roberts will not form part of the People’s Partnership election slate for 2015, party insiders say. A top-level source, who requested...
View ArticleT&T’s stability under threat says Bharath
Trade Minister Vasant Bharath has accused the People’s National Movement (PNM) and the Oilfield Workers Trade Union of undermining the stability of T&T. In a statement yesterday, Bharath said,...
View ArticleAbdulah on governance: ‘Absentee PM runs T&T’
T&T is being run by an absentee prime minister who delegates her responsibilities to her subordinates and neglects her responsibilities, says MSJ leader David Abdulah. Abdulah also says T&T’s...
View ArticleFull steam ahead on Sando East
The People’s National Movement (PNM) executive is going full steam ahead on San Fernando East. With the executive preparing to seek nominations from San Fernando East by December 22, the unit is going...
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Trinidad is cooking
My name is Danielle de Leon and I’m publishing a cookbook on the food of Trinidad & Tobago that starts 5000 years before Christ. Shakespeare, John, Donne, Blake, Byron, these were my friends. These...
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Right to fair trial
The right to a fair trial in criminal cases is a fundamental human right. At a trial there is a lot at stake, especially for a defendant who may be imprisoned, become bankrupt, be forbidden to engage...
View ArticleGriffith on deportations: Africans not target
Minister of National Security Gary Griffith says there is no witch-hunt to target illegal African immigrants as only nine out of 651 Africans have been deported for 2014. He was responding to...
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