Massy Group CEO: Opportunities in tough times
With the country facing tough economic times, president and CEO of Massy Group Gervase Warner is urging citizens to embrace the opportunities this country has to offer. Warner, who is also chairman of...
View ArticleTensions with T&T overshadow Jamaica Expo
Continuing tensions between Jamaica and T&T are forming part of the backdrop to Thursday’s launch of Expo Jamaica 2016—the country’s largest trade exposition.Organisers have estimated that during...
View ArticleLet’s declare war on crime—Dillon
National Security Minister Edmund Dillon wants citizens to declare war on criminals, promising protection for all informants who assist in bringing them to justice.Speaking to reporters at the funeral...
View ArticlePriest: Leave killers in the hands of God
Condemning PC Anson Benjamin’s killers as cowards, Anglican priest Sherwin Dickerson yesterday urged mourners to leave his murder in the hands of God.Speaking during Benjamin’s funeral at the St Paul’s...
View ArticleWidow seeks justice for dead husband
Convinced that her husband PC Govindra Ramroop’s death was no accident, Susan Roopnarine-Ramroop yesterday begged National Security Minister Edmund Dillon not to allow her husband's demise to become a...
View ArticleWitnesses now in protective custody
The two women who were in the vehicle when 22-year-old UK national Adrian St John was robbed and killed are now in police protective custody.Police have detained a 24-year-old man who turned up to give...
View ArticleHealth supervisor shot dead in bed
After gunmen broke into his house and ordered his friend to run, a 55-year-old Ministry of Health supervisor was shot dead in his bed yesterday.The murder of David Young has shocked relatives who...
View ArticleTrini-born chemist released from US jail
Disgraced T&T-born US-based chemist Annie Dookhan, whose faulty testing of evidence out of a Boston lab led to widespread issues in the US criminal justice system, has been released from prison.Her...
View ArticleMark criticises new fiscal measures: Poor targetted, rich rewarded
Deal with T&T’s tax dodgers and companies that abuse transfer-pricing systems rather than “pressure” average citizens who are hurting and “crying blood” over Government’s austerity measures,...
View ArticleMaxi fares stay same... for now
Red band maxi taxi drivers will not be increasing their fares to the public just yet.So said president of the Route Two Maxi Taxi Association, Linus Phillip, following a marathon meeting with its...
View ArticleDead bandit linked to other crimes
Kemroy Alexander, the teenager who died following a high-speed chase with police on Saturday, has been linked to a stolen car used in a drive-by murder in central Trinidad earlier this year....
View ArticleDevant settles lawsuit against Jack
Former Food Production Minister Devant Maharaj has agreed to withdraw his defamation lawsuit against Jack Warner’s Sunshine newspaper. Maharaj did so yesterday after attorneys for the colleagues,...
View ArticleBack pay bond payment never discussed: Protective bodies ‘disenchanted’
Associations representing workers under the Ministry of National Security yesterday described Government’s recent announcement that it would pay half of their back pay in bonds without consultation as...
View ArticleRowley on rising crime levels: Division heads must account
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the heads of the nine police divisions in T&T need to be more accountable to citizens. He made the comment while speaking about the level of crime at an indoor...
View ArticleOnline tax could rake in $300m annually, Imbert
Government’s imposition of a seven per cent tax on online shoppers is expected to generate an annual revenue of $300 million, Finance Minister Colm Imbert said last night. He made the comment during a...
View ArticleThieves target Tiida owners
The Nissan Tiida is the number one vehicle targeted by car thieves and the police is urging owners to install anti-theft devices to make it easier to recover.Speaking at yesterday’s weekly media...
View ArticleBody of murder victim found in St Augustine
Homicide detectives are investigating the murder of a 27-year-old man whose body was found in his car in St Augustine on Tuesday night. According to reports, around 11 pm residents of Ragbir Street, St...
View ArticleSecond suspect held in Brit’s killing
A second man, who went to the police yesterday to “clear his name” in connection with the murder of British national and aspiring cricketer, Adrian St John, has been arrested.The suspect, a man in his...
View ArticleCane farmers demand remainder of EU funds
Attorney Gerald Ramdeen is calling on Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi and Finance Minister Colm Imbert to apologise to cane farmers and the nation for allegedly misleading the country on the outstanding...
View ArticleLeaking acid cancels classes at Holy Name
Classes are expected to resume today at Holy Name Convent, Port-of-Spain, following an incident yesterday where a bottle of acetic acid was found to be leaking in a cupboard in one of the science labs....
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