Five held in Yacht Club robbery
Jensen LaVendeThursday, March 13, 2014A police officer speaks to officials of the T&T Yacht Club after yesterday’s incident in Glencoe. Photo: MICHEAL BRUCE Five men were arrested yesterday moments...
View ArticleFour more murders push toll to 96
Jensen LaVendeThursday, March 13, 2014The country’s murder toll climbed to 96, four more than the corresponding period last year, following three more murders that took place
View ArticleRoget promises ‘mother of all protests’ May 23
Raphael John-LallThursday, March 13, 2014First vice-president of the Amalgamated Trade Union Michael Prentice, left, president general of OWTU Ancel Roget and president of BIGWU Vincent Cabrera, right,...
View ArticleTheatre stalwart laid to rest
Camille ClarkeThursday, March 13, 2014Musical director of Classical Music Development Foundation of T&T June Nathaniel consoles Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott after the funeral service of his former...
View ArticleBarrow takes over as new Prisons boss
Thursday, March 13, 2014Conrad BarrowThis country has a new Prisons Commissioner who was appointed on Monday. Conrad Barrow replaced Martin Martinez, who held the post from October 2011. A statement...
View ArticleDr Tim: Much more work needed before SEA goes
Sascha WilsonThursday, March 13, 2014Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh says the level of performance in both primary and secondary schools has to improve before the “drea
View ArticlePM woos Caribbean nurses to T&T
Gail AlexanderThursday, March 13, 2014Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and St Vincent Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves examine the pipelines which T&T has given St Vincent to repair that...
View ArticlePenal residents complain of gas smell
Gerard BestThursday, March 13, 2014FLASHBACK: Petrotrin official inspects the impact of the oil spill at Queen’s Beach, La Brea, on December 19, 2013. PHOTO: RISHI RAGOONATH The Petroleum Company of...
View ArticleBaby Simeon’s family looking at second autopsy
Geisha KowlessarFriday, March 14, 2014The family of baby Simeon says they are willing to have a second autopsy performed on the seven-month-two-week-old infant if they believe the findings in the final...
View ArticleCoup report in Parliament today
Friday, March 14, 2014Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is expected to lay the report of the commission of enquiry into the 1990 attempted coup in Parliament this afternoon. Persad-Bissessar...
View ArticleProber: No compromise with Bakr’s absence
Geisha KowlessarFriday, March 14, 2014The refusal of Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr—the man who staged the July 27, 1990 insurrection—to give evidence to the commission of enquiry has not
View ArticlePanic in Penal over gas leak
Friday, March 14, 2014Almost three months after Petrotrin’s major oil disaster in the Gulf of Paria, panic rose among Penal residents when a smell of natural gas filled the air as the com
View ArticleVybz Kartel found guilty of murder
Friday, March 14, 2014KINGSTON—Popular Jamaican and international dancehall DJ Vybz Kartel and three co-accused were found guilty of murder in the Home Circuit court yesterday. Kartel, whose real name...
View ArticleMarlene attacks Penny: She’s not fit to lead PNM
Yvonne WebbFriday, March 14, 2014Port-of-Spain South MP Marlene Mc Donald has launched a blistering attack on Pennelope Beckles-Robinson, saying she is not fit to lead the PNM into government in 2015....
View ArticleMP wants answers on CAL overdraft today
Richard LordFriday, March 14, 2014Has an overdraft facility been established for Caribbean Airlines (CAL) at First Citizens?
View ArticleTexas dad shoots, kills teen daughter's boyfriend
Gerard BestFriday, March 14, 2014An unidentified father on a stretcher shot dead a 17-year-old boy after finding the teen in bed with his 16-year-old daughter this morning in Spring ,TexasHARRIS...
View ArticleRobinson hospitalised
Derek AchongSaturday, March 15, 2014Former president Arthur NR Robinson was hospitalised at the St Clair Medical Centre up to late yesterday.
View ArticleProtest outside Parliament
Kalifa ClyneSaturday, March 15, 2014An elderly man held a piece of cardboard displaying newspaper reports on the death of a 16-year-old cricketer, sweat running down his te
View ArticleBail for schoolboy in pipe attack
Reshma RagoonathSaturday, March 15, 2014The 15-year-old Preysal High School student who allegedly beat his fellow schoolmate with an iron pipe on the head appeared before a Cou
View ArticleSentencing deferred for drug-dealing pig farmer
Sascha WilsonSaturday, March 15, 2014Rio Claro pig farmer Jeffrey Sydney who confessed to selling drugs after the police found 20.76 grammes of marijuana in his parlour is e
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