Moonilal Taunts PNM
The Opposition PNM has suddenly decided to return to Parliament on Friday since ILP leader and Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner has “showed them up,” stealing the spotlight in handling a range of...
View ArticlePNM chairman: Rowley will return as PM
The next time PNM leader Keith Rowley enters the Parliament, he’ll be entering as Prime Minister of T&T, PNM chairman Franklin Khan said yesterday. Rowley was suspended on May 6 from the Parliament...
View ArticleRowley on party’s election framework: PNM will tackle crime and Police Service
A PNM Government’s plans to tackle T&T’s main problem— crime. It will start with the quality of the Police Service and will also focus on reducing violent crime and importantly, white collar crime,...
View ArticleKublalsingh invites Roundtable for talks
Convenor of the Roundtable Group David Abdulah says the organisation is considering an invitation from leader of the Highway Re-Route Movement Dr Wayne Kublalsingh to tour the Debe to Mon Desir leg of...
View ArticleEx-Caroni workers to get easier loans
Approximately 5,800 former workers of Caroni (1975) Ltd, who are part of the Voluntary Separation of Employment Programme (VSEP), will now benefit from a two per cent mortgage loan being made available...
View Article18-month-old baby murdered at home
Less than 24 hours after 18-month-old Rojel Jerimiah Hillaire-Farrow allegedly died after falling off a chair, police have arrested a 20-year-old woman for his murder. An autopsy by pathologist Dr...
View ArticleLa Brea man chopped in domestic row
A 52-year-old La Brea man, who was chopped during a scuffle over a woman on Sunday night remains warded in a serious condition at hospital. Police said around 9 pm, Victor Ryan of Three Hands Village,...
View ArticleGovt holds hand on Cyber Crime Bill
Amendments can be made to exclude specific groups of people, media practitioners included, from the prosecution under the Cyber Crime Bill. This was an option Government Whip Dr Roodal Moonilal gave to...
View ArticleTeen held for arson attack on school
A 13-year old boy from Cacandee Road, Felicity, was held yesterday by Chaguanas police after being suspected of setting fire to a building at the Chaguanas South Secondary School. The building, which...
View Article200 on breadline after Macoya fire
Dry fire hydrants are being blamed for hampering firefighters from extinguishing a multi-million dollar fire in the Trincity Industrial Estate on Sunday night which left almost 200 employees of a major...
View ArticleVOTERS HIT ALL PARTIES ON CORRUPTION
Not only is corruption an issue for voters in three key marginals in the upcoming election but they don’t have faith in any of the parties to resolve it.In three key marginal constituencies surveyed in...
View ArticleJoan out of line
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night called on Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Joan Honore-Paul to step aside in the Emailgate matter over a statement she made on the issue last...
View ArticleUS dual citizenship knocks out candidate
The Opposition People’s National Movement has gone back in search for a candidate for its last vacant constituency, Chaguanas East, after the latest nominee was not selected because he has dual...
View ArticleIPI hoping cybercrime talks go well
The International Press Institute (IPI) has urged the T&T Government to take into account the concerns raised by media stakeholders over the proposed Cybercrime Bill 2015, when it meets today with...
View ArticleKamla claims another win
The Integrity Commission has terminated its investigation of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in relation to the emails presented by Opposition leader Keith Rowley in 2013, saying there are “no or...
View ArticleCNC3 new home of football
Football fans can look forward to all the thrills and excitement of international football on local television for the next three years, following the announcement yesterday that Guardian Media Limited...
View ArticleStudent in court on arson charge
A 13-year-old student of the Chaguanas South Secondary School was granted $5,000 bail when he appeared before a Tunapuna Magistrates Court yesterday charged with setting fire to the school.The boy,...
View ArticleMaxi driver killed in head-on crash
Having sustained what would prove to be fatal injuries in a collision with a truck, a La Brea man’s only concern as he lay trapped in the mangled wreck of his vehicle was that his wife be taken to...
View ArticleBody of woman found in canefield identified
The mutilated body of a woman found on Monday at an old tasker road in Ste Madeleine has been identified as Jennifer Hunte Madlum, a safety officer at Bristow Caribbean Ltd.Madlum, 54, of Ragbir...
View ArticleTwo murdered in Maraval, Laventille
Two men were was shot dead in separate incidents on Monday night in Maraval and Laventille. Mickhel “Churso” Burke, 21, of Moraldo Street, Maraval, was found dead at Bergerac Road which is also in...
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