Nidco board leaves Curepe Interchange hanging
The term of the National Infrastructure Development Company’s (Nidco) board of directors has expired, leaving the protracted multi-million dollar Curepe Interchange Project stalled until next year. The...
View ArticlePolice need help to charge arsonists
Police are calling on contractors and representatives of construction companies whose heavy equipment was damaged in a recent spate of arson attacks to come foward to help identify five suspects, who...
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253 get keys to HDC houses in La Horquetta
Housing and Urban Development Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal says peace has returned to several crime hotspots across the country because of quality houses provided by the Housing Development Corporation...
View Article‘Missing’ US citizen safe in New York
The search for missing US Army veteran Kevin Petway ended after police found out he was back home in New York. A report said that Ste Madeleine investigator Sgt Prescott spoke to 59-year-old Petway by...
View ArticleFarmer killed crossing highway
A 50-year-old farmer was killed while crossing the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway in Aranguez on Thursday night. Around 6.15 pm, Krishna Sookraj, of Cyrus Street, Aranguez, was riding his bicycle south to...
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Police join hunt for missing Africans
Police officers assigned to the Immigration Division’s have joined the hunt for “fugitive” Africans Musah Ibrahim and Time Kings, and are expected to make a break in the case within the next 24 hours....
View ArticleFalling oil prices worry shoppers
Even as oil prices fall, the popular Christmas flea market at Mid Centre Mall in Chaguanas opened on Thursday with shoppers carefully watching their pockets. The mall’s carpark was full yesterday and a...
View ArticlePolice Service reveal worrying statistics- Rape cases on the decline, but...
While there was an increase overall in sexual offences in 2014, there was an actual decrease in rapes this year compared to last year, Supt Joanne Archie says. Archie said there were 159 rapes in 2014...
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Hit-and-run driver held
Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne was one of the first people to arrive on the scene of a fatal hit-and-run accident on the Uriah Butler Highway in Freeport. Alleyne took exclusive footage via his camera...
View ArticleThe struggle continues
With oil prices in decline, Petrotrin complaining about poor financial results, and Christmas just around the corner, it is not surprising that the Oilfields Workers Trade Union took the decision not...
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Look at legislative reform
President Anthony Carmona says it is time for the Central Bank to take an additional look at legislative reform targeted at the very banks over which it is statutorily required to regulate. He said as...
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Manning can withdraw if he wants
San Fernando East officials are awaiting official response from the party after PNM general secretary Ashton Ford said that nominations including from MP Patrick Manning could be submitted by December...
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Williams: Nothing threatens me
Acting Commissioner of Police (CoP) Stephen Williams says if his colleagues are not happy with his leadership he will walk away from the T&T Police Service (TTPS). He made the comment in a...
View ArticleCanadian consultant to examine greyfriars
The National Diversity Ministry is engaging the services of a Canadian consultant to examine the Greyfriars building to see if it should be listed with the National Trust before any further discussions...
View ArticleTTHI director: No Nigerians enrolled for study in 2013
Executive director of the T&T Hospitality and Tourism Institute Dr Patricia Butcher is denying that Nigerian students suspected to be involved in terrorism had enrolled for study at the institute...
View ArticlePM: Crime continues to be a matter of concern
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the upsurge in murders continues to be a matter of concern for the Government and has assured that the fight against crime remains the “number one priority”...
View ArticleMinister: Make use of Sando Park and Ride
San Fernando West MP Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan is calling on visitors to the city to utilise the Park & Ride service provided by the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) during the hectic...
View ArticlePM: I’m not fazed by poll
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she is unfazed by the findings of the recent North American Caribbean Teachers Association (NACTA) poll which says the PNM is leading marginals Sangre...
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Self Drive
My name is Jason Mills and I’m a driver with the Tobago House of Assembly. I’m from Black Rock. Fort Bennet Street. The one with the fort. And the history. Is kind of strange: when you live next to the...
View ArticleSchoolboys charged with beating officer
Noting the prevalence of youths before the court on criminal offences, a Siparia magistrate yesterday granted bail totalling $450,000 to three schoolboys charged with beating and robbing a security...
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