Police walk against abuse
Sunday, April 20, 2014Participants in the Law Enforcement Torch Run warm up before the start of the event . PHOTO: MARYANN AUGUSTE A campaign was launched yesterday to raise public awareness of abuse...
View ArticleDisease looms over T&T’s cocoa dreams
Wesley GibbingsSunday, April 20, 2014Bob Ramnanan, Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International regional representative. An agricultural disease described by experts as one of the world’s worst...
View ArticleTewarie: Integrity in new procurement process
Sunday, April 20, 2014Planning Minister Dr Bhoe Tewarie. PHOTO: KEITH MATTHEWSDr Bhoe Tewarie, Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development, is very optimistic that proposed legislation tightening...
View ArticleNew weekly newspaper set to launch
Reshma RagoonathSunday, April 20, 2014T&T is getting another weekly newspaper. The Voice will hit newsstands later this week, its editor, Alana D’abreau, confirmed.
View ArticleCompetition for T&T’s tar sands Two companies offer ‘safe’ options
Charles Kong SooSunday, April 20, 2014The traditional form of tar sand mining conducted on a large scale at a location in Canada.Developers of a Canadian plant that recycles old tyres say that it can...
View ArticleMay launch for T&T’s Diplomatic Academy
Sean NeroSunday, April 20, 2014Ambassador Dennis Francis, left, of the Directorate for Multilateral Relations and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran discuss plans for the Diplomatic Academy....
View ArticleFormer minister warns: MIllions lost through T&T’s shadow economy
Sean NeroSunday, April 20, 2014The absence of a well constituted T&T Revenue Authority (TTRA) is giving tax cheats the power to fuel a local shadow economy, former
View ArticleCome back, Panday
Sunday, April 20, 2014Admire him or revile him: Basdeo Panday can justifiably claim many distinctions.
View ArticleNew crime plans like cracked cisterns
Reshma RagoonathMonday, April 21, 2014Archbishop Joseph HarrisArchbishop Joseph Harris says capital punishment and new crime plans cannot make the transformation that is needed in T&T, only the...
View ArticlePan Trinbago owes pannists $2m for Pan is Beautiful XII
Aneka LeeMonday, April 21, 2014Musical conductor Akua Leith leads Clico Sforzata Steel Orchestra in the performance of the tune-of-choice Jupiter—The Bringer of Jollity composed by Gustav Holst during...
View ArticlePoint mayor: No Borough Day without pan
Monday, April 21, 2014Members of Diatonic Pan Institute of Siparia performing during the Glorious Steel Fest launch held at the Victor Chin Kit Park, Point Fortin on Saturday during the Point Fortin...
View ArticleJamaica-born professor to deliver Arthur Lewis lecture
Monday, April 21, 2014Peter Blair HenryNoted Jamaica-born Professor Economics and Finance at New York University’s Leonard N Stern School of Business, Peter Blair Henry, is scheduled to deliver the...
View ArticleChaguanas to crack down on errant land owners
SHASTRI BOODANMonday, April 21, 2014Chaguanas mayor Gopaul Boodhan, centre, and councillor Vandana Mohit, right, speak with Dinoo Trace resident Neela Kissoon when they visited Endeavour on Sunday....
View ArticleThe Prize Winner of Defiance, Belmont
As told to BC PiresMonday, April 21, 2014Barbara Jenkins, winner of the first Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize at the Bocas Literary Festival last yearMy name is Barbara Jenkins and I won the...
View ArticleThe Venus Touch
Monday, April 21, 2014Venus, named after the Roman Goddess of Love and Beauty.I arrive at the TTSPCA Tobago branch to pick up the puppy I’ve decided to adopt.
View ArticleLong delays from Mega Insurance
Monday, April 21, 2014Each week, the Guardian Angel column highlights complaints sent in by you, the consumer, and provides solutions or directs you to the appropriate resource.
View ArticleAnand; Fixin’ T&T obsessed with me
Geisha KowlessarTuesday, April 22, 2014Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has accused the watchdog group Fixin’ T&T of being obsessed with him. This as the group’s head Kirk Waithe issued a media...
View ArticleCordner was doing his own thing says former advisor
Tuesday, April 22, 2014In a witness statement to the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) former command fleet officer of the Defence Force Lester Rodney Gervais said he was asked by Garvin Heerah,...
View ArticleAlleyne-Toppin sends out warning: Jail for abusers of the elderly
Yvonne BaboolalTuesday, April 22, 2014The woman police constable who is claiming her colleagues refused to investigate a report that her deceased mother was abused at an old folks home can pass on the ma
View ArticleNo charges yet for cop who fired gun at Caura
Tuesday, April 22, 2014Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard is expected to decide today whether charges should be laid against a Southern Division police constable who allegedly...
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