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‘CLF has $1.3bn in cash’
The Clico Policyholders Group (CPG) says it has new evidence that Clico is in a position to pay its outstanding debt to policyholders contrary to reports from Central Bank and the Finance Ministry. CPG...
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Louisa has big dreams ...even as she makes a container her home
In fewer than five strides, Louisa James can get from her wash area to bedroom to kitchen. Crouching over her bed to fold some clothes while her cat looks on lazily, she tells us it was desperation...
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Stop handouts, spend $$ on lives
Recipient of The Queen’s Young Leader Award, Enterprise resident Teocah Dove, is urging the Government to stop spending money on social programmes and start investing in lives.Dove, 26, made the call...
View ArticleRoget blames poor maintenance for Petrotrin fires
Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) leader Ancel Roget is attributing two Petrotrin fires in the space of three days in Moruga to poor maintenance.Yesterday, Petrotrin sent out a release confirming...
View ArticleAlfonso: Armed forces to flush out deviants
National Security Minister brigadier general Carl Alfonso says he will use the combined strength of the nation’s armed forces to flush out, capture, arrest and make available for prosecution deviants...
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Bonaire stuns U-18 volleyball women
T&T faced an uphill task to hold onto its title in the Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association Youth Girls (Under-18) Championship when it came up against round-robin winner and unbeaten Barbados in...
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Generation of vipers
Chaguanas Mayor Gopaul Boodhan is calling for a gun amnesty in a bid to rid the Central borough of the illegal firearms police believe warring gangs from Enterprise may have in their possession.“I am...
View ArticleJack: PP blanked idea under me
Independent Liberal Party (ILP) political leader Jack Warner yesterday scoffed at calls made by Chaguanas Mayor Gopaul Boodhan for a gun amnesty, saying it will not be a success under the People’s...
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Jack slams Third Force Movement PM using them to split votes
Independent Liberal Party leader Jack Warner is accusing Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of using fired Senate President and Third Force Movement chairman Timothy Hamel-Smith to split votes in...
View ArticleWilliams: Nation must rally to Enterprise’s call
Acknowledging the cries for help from the Enterprise, Chaguanas community, for peace to once again be restored in the area, acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams yesterday pledged to work...
View ArticleAG not answering Jack’s allegation
Attorney General Garvin Nicholas says allegations that he was the beneficiary of campaign funds from former Fifa vice-president and ex-United National Congress chairman Jack Warner during the 2010...
View Article1st coastal patrol vessel due in today—Alfonso It’s a small battleship
The first of four coastal patrol vessels, intended to help in protecting this country’s vulnerable borders, will arrive on local shores today, National Security Minister Brigadier General Carl Alfonso...
View ArticleWoman liming in porch shot
A woman and two men remain warded at hospital following two shootings in Sangre Grande and Diego Martin between Saturday night and yesterday morning.In the first incident around 8 pm Saturday, Kamla...
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Doubles Standard
My name is Mustapha Ali and I am the son of Asgar Ali, who started Ali Doubles in San Fernando.In the whole of Trinidad, it’s really my uncle who started doubles, in Princes Town, Deen Doubles. They...
View ArticleThe treasure of friendship
Children in dark blue, light blue, green, red, yellow, orange, purple and pink t-shirts flit and frolic around the Buccoo Integrated Facility. Excitement reigns on opening day of the fifth annual...
View ArticleDillon: Army came up with OPV concept
People’s National Movement (PNM) Point Fortin candidate, retired major general Edmund Dillon, says the idea of offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) to man the country’s boders came from the Defence Force....
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More pressure on Ramadhar
A possible closure of the Remand Prison is looming as the Prisons Officers' Association (POA) has sued the State for what it deemed breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA) at the...
View ArticleNo to cops, soldiers behind prison walls
President of the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) Ceron Richards says police officers in prisons is not the answer to the current woes plaguing the system.He made the comment at a press conference...
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Jilted lover in South arson attack
After suffering years of abuse and death threats at the hands of her boyfriend, Elizabeth Greene and her daughter were left homeless after the jilted man set fire to their La Brea home.The fire which...
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Police probe domestic link
Police are probing a domestic link in the execution-style murder of a Malabar woman who was shot dead in front of her husband, one week before she would have celebrated her second wedding...
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