Customers can expect revolution
Cable and Wireless Communications, Plc (CWC) yesterday announced that it had completed its US$1.85 billion acquisition of 100 per cent of the equity of Columbus International Inc. The finalisation...
View ArticleI’m mentally messed up
Alleged police abuse victim Ralph Andre Lewis yesterday said he will not be forgiving the police officers who allegedly beat and burned him while he was in custody in February this year.Lewis’...
View ArticleNo bail for woman accused of stabbing sister
Bail yesterday was denied to a 22-year-old woman accused of stabbing her ten-year-old sister because the child is still warded in a serious condition at hospital.A petite Dion Cross, who was arrested...
View ArticleParents angry over bold act
The Tobago House of Assembly’s (THA) Division of Education, Youth Affairs and Sport is currently investigating a video, which has gone viral on social media, of two teenaged secondary school students...
View ArticleSexting—act that never goes away
“Be careful of what you put on the internet. It will never go away.”This is the cautionary tale every web user is given the first time they use the computer. However, many times, for whatever reason,...
View ArticleURP protest over lack of Barataria, San Juan projects
Scores of Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) workers yesterday protested the lack of projects being given to contractors and employment in the Barataria/San Juan community.They said they have not been...
View Article4 killed in accidents
In life, Michael Titus and Ronald Ramtahal were inseparable friends. On Monday, they perished together in the first of three tragic accidents.Titus, 56, and Ramtahal, 55, both of Papourie Road,...
View ArticleHinds likens police roadblocks to work of Isis
Former Opposition senator Fitzgerald Hinds returned to the Senate yesterday, saying last week Monday’s nationwide police roadblocks were more like the work of Isis. He was sworn in as a temporary...
View ArticleProsecution and state witness clash
The Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder trial resumed yesterday with a verbal battle between lead prosecutor Israel Khan, SC, and the state’s main witness Keon Gloster. Since Gloster decided to recant his...
View ArticleLalla wants police report on Emailgate
Government Senator attorney Larry Lalla says the police must stop twiddling their thumbs and release the Emailgate report to the public.Lalla was speaking during his contribution to the debate on the...
View ArticlePanel probing death of baby boy gets over $1m, but mother gets nothing
Although over $1.3 million was spent on the probe into the death of baby Simeon Cottle, who died when his head was sliced open during a cesarean section at the Mt. Hope Maternity Hospital one year ago,...
View ArticleCops probe teen students’ sex game : Parents’ instinct uncovers issue
Cunupia police are investigating an alleged sex ring at a secondary school in central Trinidad. The officers were made aware of the situation after the parents of a female student took her to be...
View ArticleKamla: School for Baptists no bribe
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has dispelled suggestions that her offer of a secondary school and a pavilion to the Spiritual Shouter Baptist community is an election bribe. She made the comment...
View ArticleWoman commits suicide at church
Depressed and pained over numerous ailments, housewife Gloria Lalchan-Roach decided to end her sorrows when she drank gramoxone at the San Fernando Church of Christ on Tuesday. Lalchan, 48, who lived...
View ArticleAbusive lover stabs girlfriend to death
A hostile relationship, a jealous lover and alleged poor policing are being blamed for the murder of Nikita Griffin, who was stabbed to death early yesterday at her Clifton Hill apartment, St Paul...
View ArticleCPO softens stance in wage talks with cops
President of the Police Service and Social Welfare Association Insp Anand Ramesar says there has been headway regarding salary negotiations with the Chief Personnel Officer (CPO). Members of the...
View ArticleWoman in Avenue van attack claims ‘horn’: I tripped
The woman who was caught on video vandalising a Toyota Hilux van on Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook, has apologised for her actions, saying that she “tripped” when she saw her boyfriend with another woman....
View ArticleCops seize $1.7m in drugs, four guns
Southern Division police believe they have dented a major drug operation in south Trinidad with the arrest of a 27-year-old US deportee and seizure of four high-powered weapons and over $1.7 million in...
View ArticleActing CoP warned after amended Bail Act passed: Look out for errant lawmen
Although the Bail (Amendment) Bill 2015 has been hailed as a positive step in the legislative pursuit to stem murders and violent crime in T&T, acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams has been...
View ArticleIRO calls for unity
President of the Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO) of T&T is calling on citizens to emulate members of the Catholic and Hindu faith who worship the La Divina Pastora statue and unite to heal the...
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