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Probe ordered into ACP’s conduct
Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams has appointed Deputy Commissioner Glen Hackett to investigate allegations that Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Peter Reyes was non compliant on a...
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Search continues for four escapees
The search continues for four illegal immigrants, a Nigerian, a Guyanese, a Jamaican and a Barbadian, who escaped from the Immigration Detention Centre, in Aripo on Friday night. National Security...
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Mixed views over Manning’s exit
Nominations for People’s National Movement San Fernando East constituency closes today but many party loyalists are sad that the tenure of T&T’s longest serving MP, Patrick Manning, would finally...
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Bleak Christmas for oil-spill communities
Last Christmas there was no yuletide joy for oil-spill affected residents of Coffee Beach, La Brea, and this year, they say, it’s no different. This was evident when the T&T Guardian visited...
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Three illegal guns seized; five held
Chaguanas Police arrested five people and seized three guns and a quantity of ammunition in two separate incidents yesterday. Senior Superintendent Johnny Abraham said around 8 am officers from the...
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Wotless before Kes
My name is Warren Dunham and I’m a Trini when I cook.I’m American. I live in San Diego, California. But Trinidad is a part of me that I refuse to let go of. I’m a better—and a happier— person from...
View ArticleWorkers: Do you know your rights?
Anessa Anderson Student, Hugh Wooding Law SchoolWorkers in Trinidad and Tobago enjoy many legal rights. In this week’s article we look at some of these rights.Minimum wage The Minimum Wages Act Chap....
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Manhunt: Relative chops mom, 2 sisters almost to death, then sets home ablaze
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt Police are searching for a 60-year-old man, after three women were hacked almost to death, and their home set ablaze. Natalie Blackie, 29, was warded at the San Fernando...
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Seasonal Snippets
Chatting with Jahim, a little Tobago resident, on Christmas Eve...Me: You deal with Santa? Jahim: Yes, but he don’t come by we. Me: You wrote him a letter? Jahim: No…But you think if I write one and...
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Fidel, Me & BWee
My name is Gayle Salloum and I was hijacked to Cuba when I was ten.I was born in Maraval and went, very young, to Bayshore. And that’s where I grew up. We had a large lime of very diverse friends. I...
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Mixed views after viral video shows officers beating disabled man
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt While two Special Reserve Police officers are being investigated for assaulting a wheelchair-bound man in San Fernando, those who witnessed the incident are supporting the...
View ArticleDisabled man beaten by police in San Fernando
Two police officers are under investigation after a video of them pushing and slapping a man in a wheelchair in San Fernando went viral yesterday.The video, which had been shared almost 2,000 times by...
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JLSC urged to act quickly on judge
The Law Association is calling on the Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC) to act swiftly and decisively on misconduct allegations leveled against High Court Judge Carla Browne-Antoine. In a...
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De La Rue chose mas image for new TT $50 bill
The designer of the new TT$50 note, Stephen Pond, says the images used, including the picture of the female masquerader in an award-winning costume, represented the “essence” of the country. Pond, a...
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Baby dead, mother critical after accident
Despite his mother’s efforts to shield his tiny body with her own, three-year-old Ravendra Gattoo was killed instantly when a truck slammed into the vehicle his family was travelling in along the M2...
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Tobago murder accused makes court appearance
Twenty-nine-year-old Kasey Bruce of Lambeau, Tobago, appeared in the Scarborough Magistrate’s Court, before Magistrate Cherylanne Antoine on Monday morning charged with the murder of 64 year THAWE...
View ArticleWilliamsville man denied psychiatric evaluation
A magistrate yesterday rejected a request that a Williamsville man, accused of attempting to murder his wife and three daughters and setting fire to their home be sent to St Anns Hospital, because he...
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Alexander faces escape charges
Almost a year after he escaped from the Mayaro Magistrate’s Court, Azmon Alexander re-appeared in the court yesterday handcuffed and heavily guarded by armed policemen. Alexander, 29, was captured in...
View ArticleHalfway house deep in debt
About 50 former prisoners and deportees staying at a Vision on Mission (VOM) halfway house may end up on the streets soon. VOM head, Wayne Chance, said the NGO had received an eviction letter from the...
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Oil slicks, sex flicks and scandals dominate 2014
Oil slicks, sex flicks, murder conspiracies and disease dominated the headlines for 2014, laying the tapestry for a new year, in which general elections will take centre stage. The Lifesport scandal,...
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