Two men shot dead in city
Two men were shot dead in separate incidents yesterday in the capital city of Port-of-Spain. The victims were identified as 26-year-old Paul Noel and 17-year-old Zane Chase. According to police...
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There’s been an increase in T&T of criminal matters involving children, ages seven to under 18, says Attorney General Garvin Nicholas.He made the point yesterday in piloting a bill to enact a...
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Jack on Interpol wanted list
Interpol has issued a red flag, or “wanted,” notice for former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, government spokesman Andrew Johnson confirmed yesterday.Johnson addressed the issue at a media briefing...
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Jack claims Fifa $$$ funded PP
Embattled former Fifa vice-president and Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Jack Warner is now saying that there is a link between Fifa’s millions and the successful People’s Partnership political...
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Mothers main child abusers
Mothers are the main offenders in child abuse and neglect cases, according to the director at the Children’s Authority Sharifa Ali-Abdullah. Ali-Abdullah was speaking at the launch of the authority’s...
View ArticleGovt will cut Baby Care $$ to pay public servants
Some initial funding from Government’s $100 million budget for the Baby Care Grant as well from Caribbean Airlines Ltd will be transferred to pay increased salaries to public servants, Finance Minister...
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RBL assisting fully in Fifa probe —Dulal-Whiteway
Managing director of Republic Bank Ltd (RBL) David Dulal-Whiteway yesterday confirmed that the bank is assisting international investigators in the Fifa corruption matter.“We have been supportive of...
View ArticleFootball execs took World Cup bribes says Blazer
NEW YORK—Former Fifa executive committee member Chuck Blazer, once former Fifa vice-president and Concacaf president Jack Warner’s right-hand man, told a US federal judge that he and others on the...
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PNM issues SOS for election observers
Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has written to the secretary general of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in the UK and the secretary general of the Caribbean Community (Caricom)...
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Pay more for better public servants says Carmona
President Anthony Carmona says the public service must offer the best salaries to attract the best workers.He was speaking at yesterday’s swearing-in ceremony for attorney Clive Pegus to the Public...
View ArticlePregnant woman refused state help
The Social Services Division had intervened in mid-May to help the woman who gave birth on the pavement in Curepe junction on Tuesday but she had refused the help, says Minister of the People and...
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Post-graduate degrees at Teaching Hospital
Tertiary Education Minister Fazal Karim said Government was hoping to offer doctors post-graduate degrees at the San Fernando Teaching Hospital.Speaking to reporters at the Couva/Point Lisas Chamber of...
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Jack of all funds
Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Jack Warner says his support for the United National Congress (UNC) was not only limited to the party, as he now alleges he paid for deputy leader Dr Roodal...
View ArticleThat’s someone else’s wife—Roodal
“It has to be someone else’s wife he talking about!”This was United National Congress (UNC) deputy leader Dr Roodal Moonilal’s response to a claim by Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Jack Warner,...
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Round Table backs HRM cause
Claims by the Government that the Point Fortin highway is between 60-70 per cent completed are not true, members of the Round Table of the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU), People’s National...
View ArticleEx-Clico bosses collect $36.1m ...figure represents half of planned payout plan
Over $36.1 million has already been paid out to former Clico directors, chairman of the Clico Policyholders Group, Peter Permell, said yesterday.The payments were processed between April 30, 2015 and...
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Come to us first with complaints
Police Complaints Authority director David West is appealing to victims of police abuse not to publicise their ordeal in the media and instead come discreetly to the PCA and lodge a complaint, so that...
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T&T on path of destruction
Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Harris is appealing to the nation to once again adopt the values espoused by Jesus Christ. He made the call yesterday during the 2015 Corpus Christi Celebration at the...
View ArticleGovernment asks for $2.1b more
Government’s 2015 Appropriation package for T&T is being varied by increases of $2.1 billion involving the shift of certain sums from some ministries to others, following deliberations by...
View ArticleSchool sex videos light up Facebook
Secondary school students continue to heat up the Internet with videos of themselves engaging in sexual activity at their schools. One of the recent videos posted shows two students engaging in oral...
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