Quarrying regulations coming
Legislation regulating quarrying and diesel storage in the country are to be laid in the Parliament before it is prorogued on June 17, Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine has said.Ramnarine said these were...
View ArticleDisorderly cop to pay $7,500 compensation
A suspended policeman may have been spared a conviction yesterday after pleading guilty to three charges, but his future in the Police Service still hangs in the balance.Rishi Powder, who was last...
View ArticleCop freed on drunk driving charge
A police officer who was charged with drunk driving 12-years ago, long before the breathalyser was introduced, was yesterday freed of the charge and is now contemplating filing a case of malicious...
View ArticleJack comes out ‘swinging’
Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Jack Warner is now a man with “nothing to lose” after spending a night at the Remand Yard prison in Port-of-Spain, on Wednesday. Warner, in an interview with the...
View Article‘Nothing but raving and ranting’
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the “slanderous” claims by ILP leader Jack Warner that he funded her and the UNC’s 2010 general election campaign have been referred to her attorneys.Speaking...
View ArticleLopinot voters prefer Jack ‘with reservations’ over PM, Rowley
In the week that Independent Liberal Party leader Jack Warner faced an indictment from the US Justice Department, demands for his extradition and a night in jail, polling results from the marginal...
View ArticleBring back Vasant!
Bring back Vasant Bharath to fight St Augustine!That was the cry from St Augustine constituents who on Wednesday appealed to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to select Bharath as their candidate...
View ArticleTwo killed in South crash
After surviving a crash which killed two people yesterday, police said taxi driver Azim Mohammed got in another vehicle and left the scene.Mohammed was at the Couva Police Station late yesterday...
View ArticleIf you have file on the PM, bring it
Congress of the People leader Prakash Ramadhar says he is deeply saddened by the recent arrest of Jack Warner.“Let me just say, I am personally saddened by the turn of events...However, these things...
View ArticleWe await outcome
People’s National Movement (PNM) leader Dr Keith Rowley says he will wait for the outcome of the latest fight developing between the United National Congress (UNC) and its former chairman Jack Warner...
View ArticleIC’s call for tribunal to investigate Warner still in Pres’ hands
The Integrity Commission has been requesting a President-appointed tribunal to investigate Independent Liberal Party leader Jack Warner since late last year. The Sunday Guardian learned that since...
View Article‘No basket of election goodies’
Do not expect a basket of election goodies when the People’s Partnership launches its 2015 manifesto.Instead, look out for plans to take T&T from economic dependence on oil and gas, increase...
View Article‘Urgent call for campaign finance reform’
The back-and-forth between Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and embattled Independent Liberal Party leader Jack Warner over financing of the United National Congress’s (UNC) 2010 election campaign...
View ArticlePensioner killed in home invasion
Unaware that her husband had been stabbed to death by bandits, a wounded Dolly Sooknanan sat on the floor next to his body waiting for him to awake from his sleep. Police said Sooknanan, 86, was in a...
View ArticleBrother of ex-national footballer killed in crash
Sean Julien, the brother of former national footballer Sherwyn Julien, was killed instantly when he was flung through the windscreen of his car after it crashed into a utility pole in Erin on Saturday....
View ArticleZero tolerance on domestic violence
“If you don’t provide your wife with money, that is a form of domestic violence,” says acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams. Speaking at an event hosted by the Police Service in Chaguanas to...
View ArticleWarner’s online blooper
Former Fifa vice president, Jack Warner, yesterday released a video condemning the actions of Fifa for allowing the US to host the 2015 Summer World Cup. However, Warner’s source of information came...
View ArticlePolice presence a major deterrent: Fantastic drop in serious crimes—CoP
Buoyed by the success of new anti-crime measures, acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams has set new targets for his organisation with an aim to reduce the number of serious criminal offences to...
View ArticleNew flood warning system for Diego
With the Met Office signalling the start of the rainy season and the trauma of last year’s flash-flooding devastation still raw, residents of Diego Martin are being assured that an early warning system...
View ArticleDrivers served notice to vacate land - Central maxi hub faces eviction
An estimated 30,000 central citizens who commute daily to and from Port-of-Spain and from Chaguanas to San Fernando are facing the risk of being stranded. This from president of the Route III (Green...
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