PM charms protesters
Protesting Tofco employees, who are working on the $13 billion bpTT Juniper Platform at La Brea, have been invited by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to Parliament tomorrow for discussions with...
View ArticleNo plot to kick out Browne
People’s National Movement (PNM) operations officer Irene Hinds says there is no plot against incumbent Diego Martin Central MP Dr Amery Browne.Hinds, who is also a Diego Martin Regional Corporation...
View ArticleRowley: Baby grant inflated by $100m
The estimated budget for the Baby Care Grant has been inflated by almost $100 million. This was the view of Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley as he spoke on Tuesday night during a cottage meeting at...
View ArticleMan charged with murder of street dweller
A 47-year-old mason with five different addresses appeared in court yesterday charged with the murder of street dweller Barry Joseph.Roderick White was arrested last week Thursday and charged with...
View ArticleGML dismisses Express report
Guardian Media Ltd and pollster Louis Bertrand have both rubbished a report in yesterday’s Trinidad Express that questioned whether the firm under which Bertrand traded, H.H.B & Associates, was...
View ArticleWanted man surrenders
The man who police said opened fire on them in Santa Cruz a few weeks ago, resulting in two men being killed by police and another being hospitalised in serious condition, surrendered to police on...
View ArticleFamilies fight for miracle baby
In a dramatic new twist to the Sharlene Kowlessar C-section tragedy, two families are now fiercely wrangling over her newborn baby Issac.Kowlessar died 24 days after she gave birth to Issac at the San...
View ArticleGrieving C-section victims’ families plan legal action
The common-law husband of first-time mother Keisha Ayres, who died days after a C-section, believes authorities are attempting to sweep alleged negligence in the post-natal care of his baby’s mother...
View ArticleTTFA must pay $1m to ex-secretary
Former government minister Jack Warner may have escaped having to fork out $1 million in damages to his former secretary, but he may yet have a case to answer before the Integrity Commission (IC) over...
View ArticleFamily tries to overcome grief
In spite of the assurances by police that the suspects in the murder of special prosecutor Dana Seetahal, SC, will be brought to justice soon, anxious relatives, friends and colleagues continue to...
View ArticleKhan goes ahead with new plans
Nurses are expected to gather in their numbers at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, today to protest extended visiting hours at public health facilities and other directives given by...
View ArticleMurderer apologises to victim’s family
A 24-year-old man from Claxton Bay who admitted to participating in the murder of his neighbour has apologised to the victim’s relatives in a bid to secure early release from prison. Leston Paul Henry...
View ArticleGovt giving US$150,000 to help Nepal
Government is donating US$150,000 via the Red Cross to Nepal where over 5,000 people have been killed and 11,000 injured in the recent earthquake, Communication Minister Vasant Bharath has said.At...
View ArticleMurder charge for cop in Freddie Gray police-custody death
Baltimore's top prosecutor announced criminal charges against all six police officers suspended after a black man suffered a fatal spinal injury in police custody, saying "no one is above the...
View ArticleRowley: Result of wild spending
Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley says the People’s Partnership Government should accept “personal and direct” blame for the Moody’s downgrade of this country.He made the comment in an impromptu...
View ArticleNegative rating: Moody’s unhappy with T&T’s fiscal measures
Citing persistent fiscal deficits, the decline in oil prices and a weak macroeconomic policy framework among other concerns, Moody's Investors Service has downgraded T&T's government bond rating...
View ArticleRoget wants jail for Kamla
Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) president Ancel Roget says his May Day 2015 wish is to see Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in handcuffs and being led off to prison.After leading hundreds of...
View Article‘They murdered my child’
“They murdered my child and covered it up!”Those were the last words grieving father Suresh Rampersad uttered moments before the casket bearing his 12-day-old son’s body was closed for the last time at...
View ArticleHowai: Moody’s rating unfair
Moody’s Investors Service’s rating of T&T does not truly reflect the country’s strong macroeconomic fundamentals, Finance Minister Larry Howai said yesterday.Howai was responding in Parliament to...
View ArticleMark’s absence delays privileges rulings against Keith, Kevin
Separate requests for Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine and Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley to be referred to the House of Representatives’ Committee of Privileges, for alleged parliamentary breaches...
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