Islamic leaders condemn French terrorist attack
Even as local Islamic scholar Imtiaz Mohammed condemned Wednesday’s attack at French magazine Charlie Hebdo he says freedom of expression cannot be exercised without religious sensitivity. Mohammed,...
View ArticleFishermen keep high fish price
Despite the Met Office’s discontinuation of its rough seas bulletin yesterday some fishermen said they intend to keep their recent increase in fish prices up. The price of fish increased significantly...
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Bar bandits exposed
One of the most talked about stories this past week on CrimeWatch was the robbery and shootout between three armed bandits and police at the Vietnam Bar in Barrackpore. Police constable Cashyap Lochan...
View ArticleCabinet blanks request for $43m more for Carnival
Culture Minister Lincoln Douglas was blanked at Cabinet on Thursday after he attempted to secure a further $43 million from Government for Carnival. The request for additonal funding came even as the...
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Ministers to give details of cutbacks this week—PM
In the coming days, government ministers will provide the nation with details on all the cutbacks to be made in response to falling oil prices. So said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last...
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Joseph loyal to family, PNM
Family, friends and People’s National Movement (PNM) members yesterday paid glowing tribute to former National Security minister and party deputy campaign manager Martin Joseph who drowned on Monday...
View ArticleTrinidad plays big role in $17B Caribbean drug, guns trade
The Caribbean corridor facilitates the transit of over $17 billion worth of cocaine to the United States. Author Trevor Munroe writes in Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror that this accounts for...
View ArticlePNM supports death penalty
People’s National Movement (PNM) Leader Dr Keith Rowley is slamming the Government for using the controversial death penalty as an “election tool.” With 16 murders in just ten days, T&T had a...
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Imam calls for justice for murdered Shabana
Imam of the Nur-E-Islam Masjid in El Soccoro, Maulana Shiraz Ali, calls for justice for Shabana Mohammed and other innocents. He was speaking at Mohammed's funeral service at her home at Akal Trace,...
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Cuss out over balisier song
A calypso entitled Balisier, which represents the emblem of the People’s National Movement (PNM) has led to a recent cuss out between two calypsonians as the 2015 Carnival season heats up. The war of...
View ArticleMerchants of death
The illegal firearms count in T&T can be as high as 15,000. This was the opinion of Opposition Senator Fitzgerald Hinds. He also said that a gun can be bought in Venezuela for as cheap as US$100....
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Jack: Anna Deonarine was the biggest loss for the ILP
With the exception of one person—Anna Deonarine—Jack Warner says the other members of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) who have quit were people of no substance. That’s the charge made by Warner in...
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Despers manager: We have to continue
Practise was postponed yesterday at the Desperadoes panyard after one of the workers contracted to move the steelpan rack was shot during gang warfare at Rudolph Link Road in Laventille. Atiba Pantin,...
View ArticleRamadhar: Dookeran, Carolyn issue embarrassing
Congress of the People (COP) leader Prakash Ramadhar says the party is embarrassed that the issue involving senior members Winston Dookeran and Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan has reached into the public...
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Ramesh on Clico policyholders’ move to take Govt to Privy Council: Appeal...
Accusing the Government of murdering innocent citizens by refusing to pay the Clico United Policyholders Group the monies owed to them, former attorney general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj said their...
View ArticleCountry in trouble says former AG
A former attorney general said yesterday that T&T has been experiencing a crisis and that innocent citizens were the ones paying the price. Responding to questions after yesterday’s meeting with...
View ArticleNCBA head: Bandleaders are their own problems
How can masqueraders expect free movement for Carnival if the parade route remained the same? That was the question put forward by National Carnival Bandleaders Association (NCBA) president David Lopez...
View ArticleSenior cop: New homicide officers need training
Assistant Commissioner of Police Wayne Dick says officers of the Homicide Bureau are sometimes assigned to each investigate as many as 34 homicides. At a police news conference on December 31, acting...
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Kublalsingh: Continuation of highway is criminal
Hunger striker Dr Wayne Kublalsingh says continuing the Debe to Mon Desir leg of the Point Fortin Highway in this time of diminishing oil prices constitutes criminality in public office. “Debe to Mon...
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PM on church funding- It’s a state responsibility
It was not a political decision, but a state responsibility. So said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Saturday evening as she responded to critics who questioned the Government’s decision to...
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