No-pressure cooker
My name is Bernadette George and I was a cook in the original Breakfast Shed.They doesn’t call it Breakfast Shed now, but I still call it Breakfast Shed. They now calling it Fammes du Chalice or...
View ArticleTragedy in St Vincent
Five people, including several children are dead, after a minibus plunged into the sea in Rockgutter, an area between Owia and Fancy on the northeastern tip of St. Vincent early Monday, according to a...
View ArticleDrug trade fuelling crime
Multi-media journalist Urvashi Tiwari-Ropnarine has been investigating T&T’s flourishing illegal drug trade for the past several weeks. That journey has taken her to several parts of the country...
View ArticleNidco gets $1.5b loan for highway
Commuters can look forward to the opening of several sections of the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension to Point Fortin project over the next few months.So said chairman of the National Infrastructure...
View ArticleSchoolboy, 14, killed on PBR
A 14-year-old schoolboy was one of two pedestrians who was knocked down and killed in separate incidents in Barataria and Guapo yesterday morning. Their deaths bring the road fatality toll for the year...
View ArticleAbort Phoenix IPO—Rowley
Leader of the Opposition Dr Keith Rowley has joined in the call for the proposed Phoenix Park Gas Processors’ initial public offering (IPO) to be aborted pending the conclusion of the investigations...
View ArticlePalo Seco protest over bad roads
Three days are how much time angry Palo Seco residents say they are willing to give the Government to initiate work to fix deplorable roads or they will continue to protest.Yesterday residents united...
View ArticleRamesh scoffs at hanging debate
Former Attorney General Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj says the Government’s plan to bring back the hangman is an election gimmick to garner support from citizens who feel they are under siege from...
View Article2 arrested for attacking cars on Valencia bypass
Two men were arrested over the weekend for throwing stones at cars on the Valencia Bypass.Police believe attacks are part of a ploy by perpetrators to get motorists to stop so they can rob them.The...
View ArticleKhalid orders Petrotrin cutbacks and says: We can manage for short time
Petrotrin president Khalid Hassanali is forecasting a dim 2015, saying the state-owned oil company could lose 40-50 per cent in revenue due to the continuing sip in global oil and gas prices.As such,...
View ArticleParents of shot Despers hauler: He was no gangster
Atiba Pantin was no gangster his parents told the media yesterday at the Forensic Science Centre, St James.The 29-year-old father of two, described as a “hustler”, left his home on Tesheria Street,...
View ArticleT&T living on margin of chaos
Saying citizens in T&T are “just living on the margin of chaos,” Independent Senator Helen Drayton yesterday called on Government to make drastic cuts in expenditure in response to the continuing...
View ArticleFeuding women in fracas at Savannah
A suspected feud that began on Facebook yesterday took an ugly turn at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, when two groups of women were involved in a fracas. Police said the melee began after...
View ArticleTough to catch drug smugglers
Multi-media journalist Urvashi Tiwari-Roopnarine has been investigating T&T’s flourishing illegal drug trade for the past several weeks. That journey has taken her to several parts of the country...
View Article13 years after killing of M Rampersad founders, Nephew, ex-wife freed
Emotions ran high yesterday when Krishna Rampersad and his ex-wife were freed after spending three years in custody awaiting trial for the 2002 murders of his multi-millionaire uncle Mahase Rampersad...
View ArticleAbandoned dog mauls girl, 7
A seven-year-old girl had to receive 25 stitches to her head on Monday after being mauled by an abandoned dog at her home in Carlsen Field. Kesha Cooper, a Standard One pupil, was playing in the yard...
View ArticleCops seize high-tech rifle
A high-powered firearm and several rounds of ammunition were seized by members of the Inter-Agency Task Force Strike Team in Laventille, Port-of-Spain, on Monday. A report said around 3 pm, the police...
View ArticleIndependent Senator asks Howai: Will govt take from HSF?
Independent Senator Ian Roach has called on Finance Minister Larry Howai to say whether the Government intends to extract money from its Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) during the current oil and...
View ArticleTeen killed on PBR to be buried tomorrow
Evans Rajkumar, the teen who was knocked down on Monday will be buried tomorrow after a service at the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah’s Witness, Chin Chin Road, Cunupia. The 14-year-old sports enthusiast...
View ArticleManzanilla road ready by monthend
The construction of a permanent Manzanilla Main Road is expected to be completed by the end of this month, says Works and Infrastructure Minister Suruj Rambachan. The entire cost of a temporary and...
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