NCBA $$ woes continue
Arts and Multiculturalism Minister Dr Lincoln Douglas is now trying to secure a $75 million loan from First Citizens in order to clear up debts accrued as a result of his miscalculating last year’s...
View ArticleMasman claims death threats
Masman Edwin Worrell, who highlighted the move by the National Carnival Bands Association (NCBA) to disqualify ten winning masqueraders, has now reported alleged death threats to the Morvant Police...
View ArticleOnline petition seeks PNM change of heart: Facebook love for Browne
Supporters of Dr Amery Browne have taken to social media to express their displeasure with the People’s National Movement screening committee’s rejection of the incumbent Diego Martin Central MP. An...
View ArticleMoonilal sorry for some Opposition MPs
Leader of Government Business Dr Roodal Moonilal says the People’s National Movement’s (PNM) rejection of several of its sitting MPs is regrettable. “It is strange that these people who are being...
View ArticleCops guard teen after baby found dead
A teenager is currently warded under police guard at the Women’s Hospital in Mt Hope. It is believed the girl is connected to the discovery of the body of a newborn baby girl. According to a police...
View ArticlePolice probe 4 more murders: Cousins killed minutes apart
Two cousins were gunned down within 35 minutes of each other at Beetham, Laventille, on Friday night. According to a police report, at about 11.45 pm, Dale Richards, 38, was discovered dead by officers...
View ArticleGray-Burke in fiery political mood: I’ll expose PNM lies
Episkopos Archbishop Barbara Gray-Burke is promising to “bring it all out in the open” if the opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) continues to spread what she terms untruths about her in the...
View ArticleNo second screening for Amery
Diego Martin Central MP Dr Amery Browne will not be making a second appearance before the screening committee of the People’s National Movement (PNM) later this month.The party’s general secretary...
View ArticleAs Fr Harvey leads silent protest on Parliament: Blurred line between church...
The widely-held view is that religion and politics should be independent of each other. However, on Good Friday, the line that separates the two became blurred when Roman Catholic priest Father Clyde...
View ArticleNine murders since Holy Thursday
The Easter weekend murder toll climbed to nine yesterday with the killing of 24-year-old Mikhail Dyer who was gunned down at his Enterprise Village, Chaguanas, home at around 3 pm. Police said two...
View ArticleRC Archbishop urges: Remove blocks to development
Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Harris says T&T needs Jesus to remove the stone blocking true national development, just as he removed the stone from His tomb. In his Gloria Saturday Easter Vigil...
View ArticleOne step backwards, two steps forwards
My name is Annabella Morenzie and I organise retreats.My family is very large both on my mother’s and father’s side. However, it is only my mom’s brothers and their families and my dad’s eldest sister...
View ArticleSEA students in limbo as fire destroys Fanny Village school
With Secondary Entrance Exams (SEA) just two months away, parents of students attending Fanny Village Government Primary School watched in horror yesterday as a pre-dawn fire re-ignited around midday...
View ArticleWoodford Lodge Club burns down
The historic Woodford Lodge Recreation Club, once used by socialites of the defunct Caroni (1975) Limited has been destroyed in a fire. The inferno broke out shortly after midday in the unoccupied...
View ArticlePanday bashes Kamla: UNC elections overdue—Bas
As the nation waits on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to call this year’s general election, former prime minister Basdeo Panday says she is leading the United National Congress (UNC) illegally....
View ArticleMom sees son’s horrific death
The sound of her son’s screams as a car ploughed into him along the Solomon Hochoy highway on Easter Sunday night, continues to haunt pensioner Lutchmie Gokool. The distraught woman says she does not...
View ArticleCops probe Rio Claro murder
Gunmen stormed into the home of a Rio Claro gardener and shot him in the head, making him the ninth murder victim for the long weekend. Police said around 6 am on Sunday, Adesh Debi, 35, Legendre Road,...
View ArticleLas Alturas hearing resumes today
The Commission of Enquiry into the Las Alturas housing project at Lady Young Road, Morvant, will resume today at 9.30 am at the Caribbean Court of Justice, Henry Street, Port-of-Spain. The second...
View ArticleMuseum president fears stolen prized statue may be sold as scrap metal
A statue worth approximately $70,000 was discovered stolen yesterday from the Chaguaramas Military History and Aviation Museum. And in an apparent weird sense of humour, the thieves left an empty beer...
View ArticleColleagues block media and public
Crowds of curious onlookers yesterday flocked outside the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ Court hoping to get a glimpse of 12 police officers who appeared for misbehaving in public office after allegedly...
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