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Protest for pension funds
Representatives of the Steel Workers Union yesterday met with officials at Republic Bank to discuss the status of the former ArcelorMittal workers’ pension plan. Republic Bank is the trustee of the...
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Set up enquiry into jailbreak
President of the Police Service Social and Welfare Association Insp Anand Ramesar is calling for a commission of enquiry into last July’s prison break at the Port-of-Spain Prison.Ramesar was responding...
View ArticleMan, 53, charged with rape of girl, 12
A Penal contractor charged with raping a 12-year-old girl was granted $100,000 bail when he appeared in the Siparia Magistrates Court yesterday. Tyrone Jagessar, 53, of Rochard Road, Penal, appeared...
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Mother of St Ann’s murder accused escapee: Please surrender
Claudine Henry, the mother of St Ann’s Mental Hospital escapee and murder accused Sheldon Thomas, yesterday urged her firstborn son to surrender.Speaking with the T&T Guardian at Pembroke Street,...
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Cricketer in court on three charges
West Indian cricketer Kevon Cooper and former national footballer Shane Calderon both pleaded not guilty to a string of charges arising out of their arrests in Woodbrook on Sunday. The friends did so...
View ArticleNeighbour in court for schoolboy’s murder
Nine days after the charred remains of schoolboy Darian Nedd was found in the burnt out shell of his home, one of his neighbours appeared in the Siparia Magistrates Court charged with his murder.Roger...
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Cuffie moves to improve delivery
Government is calling on public servants who receive $10 billion in salaries annually to become more efficient and effective in their delivery of services to the public.Making the announcement...
View ArticleEMA: Low oxygen level killed fish
The Environmental Management Authority (EMA) has concluded that thousands of fish died in the Macoya River owing to a lack of oxygen.Residents and gardeners last week reported schools of dead fish...
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3 suspects free for now
Three suspects detained in connection with the abduction of school teacher Keston Mahabir have been released by police. The suspects—a 27-year-old man, his 23-year-old girlfriend and his mother—were...
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Baptist Archbishop begs for Mahabir’s release
The Spiritual Shouter Baptist community is calling on the kidnappers of Couva school teacher Keston Mahabir to release him safely. Speaking at Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day celebrations...
View ArticleCops may question remand prisoner
As the investigations into the abduction of school teacher Keston Mahabir reach a critical stage, investigators are now looking at the option of visiting the Golden Grove Remand Yard in Arouca to...
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Moses to review file on deportation of 12 Jamaicans
Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moses is expected to review a report sent by senior immigration officers about 12 Jamaican nationals who were denied entry into T&T over the Easter weekend. The...
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Pensioner found beaten to death
An elderly T&T national resident in Canada, who has been returning home every winter for the past several years, was tied up, gagged and beaten to death at his Upper Bournes Road, St James, home...
View ArticleNew anti-terrorist legislation soon—Al-Rawi
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi says his office will be laying new legislation in Parliament soon to deal with foreign terrorist fighters and propose amendments to the current anti-terrorism...
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Spiritual Shouter Baptists want home in city: Give us a cathedral
People’s National Movement (PNM) Senator Foster Cummings, a Spiritual Shouter Baptist, yesterday called for the Baptist community to be given its own cathedral in Port-of-Spain.Joining in the...
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Rowley, Kamla blank Maloney Baptist celebrations
Neither Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley nor Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar attended yesterday’s Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day celebrations in Maloney.Persad-Bissessar sent her...
View ArticleJudiciary staffers raise CJ’s travels: ‘Frequent flyer’ in trying times
The frequent number of trips being undertaken by the third highest office holder in the land, Chief Justice Ivor Archie, is not sitting well with several members of the legal fraternity.A total of...
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Dark days by the river
Sometimes, from his mother’s gallery in Mafeking in the dusky evening, Ramcumar Gangadeen, 56, would sit and watch the Ortoire River flowing quietly along and hear the muted roar of the ocean not far...
View ArticleRecaptured prisoners in court today
While the police and other arms of the protective services continue their search for escaped murder accused Sheldon Thomas, five other men are expected to appear in court today charged with escaping...
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Love affair claim a lie
Convinced that Keston Mahabir’s abductors had concocted a ploy to discredit him, fiance Shereeza Mohammed yesterday came out in his defence, saying he was never sexually involved with his teenaged...
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