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Call for new look at abortion laws
Amid increased calls to legalise abortions which have been sanctioned by former health minister Dr Fuad Khan and advisory director of the Family Planning Association Dr Jacqueline Sharpe, Roman...
View ArticleFamily, lawyers remember Dana
Two years after former Independent senator Dana Seetahal, SC, was murdered her friends and colleagues are still perplexed as to the reason for her brutal assassination. Speaking at a ceremony to...
View ArticleAuditor General report: 21 cellphones costing $102,000 ‘gone missing’
The “custody” of 21 cellphones purchased by the former justice ministry—which dealt with prisons and related matters—could not be determined after purchase, according to the latest Auditor General’s...
View ArticlePublishers see threat to press freedom
President of the T&T Publishers and Broadcasters Association, Daren Lee Sing, has put industry practitioners on alert citing possible threats to press freedom, based on proposed legislation...
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All in place for today’s SEA
All systems have been put in place for today’s Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) in which 18,215 pupils have been registered to write the exam.Seeking to allay the fears of pupils and their parents,...
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Bar patrons ‘went too far’
Eight days after being beaten during a robbery at a Claxton Bay bar, Curtis Pierre, 16, succumbed to his injuries at the Intensive Care Unit of the San Fernando General Hospital.Pierre was one of two...
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Woman describes attacker before death
Police have launched a manhunt for a second suspect in the attempted rape and murder of a 24-year-old Eastern Regional Health Authority employee yesterday.Nerissa Nickey Goora, 24, a clerk at Sangre...
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Clico still insolvent
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday that Clico still has a deficit of close to $1 billion and the insurer’s 2014 after-tax profit of $5.13 billion was just an “accounting transaction” resulting...
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$10,000 fine for gun jammers
Police are warning citizens that any attempt to jam their radar signals from speed detection guns with the use of electronic devices is illegal and can cost you ten times the amount of a speeding...
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‘Worse than we anticipated’
Director of the Children’s Authority Sharifa Ali-Abdullah yesterday revealed that 5,500 sexual abuse, neglect, physical abuse and lack of care and guardianship cases were reported to the authority in...
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Abortions allowed to save mothers
As the public debate on abortion continues in T&T, Medical Chief of Staff of Mt Hope Women’s Hospital Dr Karen Sohan says that the laws of T&T allows abortion for medical reasons.Speaking with...
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Murder victim’s body flown home
Generous Trinidadians have responded to an appeal by Guyanese national Kumar Shivpersaud to help send the body of his murdered friend and countryman Khemraj Persaud back home for burial.Persaud’s body...
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Former highway workers in dark
Retrenched OAS Construtora employees are calling on the company to break their silence over retroactive salaries and severance pay. Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union shop steward and former safety...
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AG: No threat to press freedom
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Faris Al-Rawi says the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) cannot intercept calls and spy on citizens as was being claimed by the Opposition.Speaking during...
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Union calls on minister to help save buffalypso
The All Trinidad General Workers Trade Union (ATGWTU) is calling on Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat to investigate issues affecting workers at the Mora Valley Farm and the Sugarcane Feed...
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Crime out of hand
The owner of the Claxton Bay bar where a teen bandit was beaten so badly by his “victims” that he never regained consciousess after he was hospitalised feels no joy he is dead.However, Phoolmatie John...
View ArticleRoget must pay $.3m to ex-NP manager
Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget has been ordered to pay $360,000 in compensation for defaming a former manager of the National Petroleum Marketing Company Ltd (NP)....
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WASA owes suppliers $257m
The cash-strapped Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) owes its contractors and suppliers $257 million.While the authority’s chairman, Romney Thomas, admitted that WASA has not been paying its...
View ArticleFirm sues State for over $1b
A civil engineering company is suing a state enterprise for over $1.2 billion in unpaid bills.The lawsuit, possibly the largest ever brought by a private company against the State, was filed in the...
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Armed robberies, assaults on increase
There is an increase in robberies and assaults, both with the use of guns, senior officers in the Northern Division said yesterday, during a media briefing following the seizure of three guns and 45...
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