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14 held, four guns seized
Fourteen people including a woman were arrested yesterday in connection with the seizure of four guns, marijuana and stolen appliances and clothing.According to police, officers of the North Eastern...
View ArticleCouva man jailed for fatal slap
A Couva man has been sent to prison for one year for unlawfully killing a man 11 years ago.Justice David Harris, sitting in the San Fernando Second Criminal Court, handed down the sentence to Ramesh...
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Boy killed crossing bus route
Eleven-year-old Jadon Long was knocked down and killed minutes after registering as a new pupil at the St Augustine Secondary School yesterday.According to police, Long, of Dinsley Gardens, Arouca,...
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Cryptic message outside mosque
A strange message scrawled on the wall of the San Fernando Jama Masjid, where Daniel Bostic was gunned down, left mourners troubled yesterday. The message which read "Ownership Change" was written...
View ArticleMan, 89, perishes in blaze
An 89-year-old man who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and arthritis was burnt beyond recognition on Thursday night when his San Juan home caught afire.According to police reports, Neville Clarke and...
View ArticleKamla calls in election observers
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has requested an observer team from the Commonwealth for the upcoming September 7 general election.The PM made the request yesterday during the 36th Caricom Heads...
View ArticleHamel-Smith launches new party
Former senate president Timothy Hamel-Smith yesterday formally presented the newest political party, referred to as The Third Force Movement (TTFM).Thus far, the Movement comprises the Alliance of...
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CariCRIS upgrades Eastern Credit Union
Regional rating agency, CariCRIS, yesterday announced that it was upgrading its credit ratings for Eastern Credit Union Co-operative Society Ltd (ECU) by one notch to CariBBB (Foreign and Local...
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Man in centre of Enterprise violence flees
The reign of terror in Central is being linked to one man who is well known to San Fernando police. The 31-year-old man has a long rap sheet in the South area but has never been charged for any crime...
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PM launches Operation Restore 2
An early morning joint effort by officers from the South Division, South Western Division, Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), Guard and Emergency Branch and the T&T Defence Force led to four arrests...
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Warner pays $.2m to settle Faaiq lawsuit
Councillor Faaiq Mohammed yesterday received a $275,000 cheque from embattled Independent Liberal Party leader (ILP) Jack Warner.The payment was to satisfy damages awarded by the High Court in...
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Jack upstages Kamla on Central walkabouts
A planned walkabout in embattled Enterprise, Chaguanas, by Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Jack Warner yesterday upstaged an impromptu walkabout in the same area by Prime Minister Kamla...
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Isis ‘has foothold in T&T’
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) has already established a presence on the ground in T&T. That is the view of criminologist Daurius Figueira. He was speaking in reference to a recent...
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Enterprise residents fleeing violence
Families are fleeing their homes, senior citizens have had to seek medical attention, children are being separated from their parents, and some residents have contemplated selling their commercial and...
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Jack not leaving T&T soon
Embattled Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader and former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner is not leaving T&T anytime soon.According to former attorney general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, SC, Warner...
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Uncle of PNM Tabaquite candidate missing
PNM candidate for Tabaquite Kevin Chan is calling on the Police Canine Unit to assist in finding his uncle Lionel Jennings who went missing on Wednesday afternoon. Chan and his family spent yesterday...
View ArticleRasta City, Muslims take over
President of the Trinidad Muslim League (TML) Nasser Mustapha has described as “unfortunate” a recruitment drive in central Trinidad by Rasta City and the Muslims—two Port-of-Spain-based gangs.Mustapha...
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‘Something not adding up with Enterprise drug turf war’
Criminologist Daurius Figueira, the author of the book, Cocaine Trafficking in The Caribbean & West Africa in the Era of The Mexican cartels, says questions must be raised about a drug turf war in...
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Prisons officers uneasy over relocation of inmates
Just over 100 prisoners were relocated from the Golden Grove Remand Yard and at the Maximum Security Prison (MSP) in Arouca in an exercise that started at about 9 am on Saturday and lasted for about...
View ArticlePolitical scientists: Third parties will split votes
Political scientist Dr Winford James says the emergence of new third parties and independent political candidates will result in vote-splitting during September’s general election. He said they were...
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