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Deyalsingh to launch education drive soon: Breast milk’s better option
Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh says women should not be ashamed about breastfeeding their children in public. “It is a natural human response and I support breastfeeding totally because it is...
View Article6 Mother’s Day babies in south
Holding their bundle of joy after months of anticipation was the best Mother’s Day gift six mothers at the San Fernando General Hospital could have asked for yesterday.While they were hoping to spend...
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Hope comes to Brickfield
A ray of hope has come to five children in Brickfield who have never been to school and could not read or write. The children, who live with their parents in a squatters’ settlement off Kali Temple...
View ArticleMan’s hand severed during Mother’s Day celebration
Ralph BanwarieA Sangre Grande family’s Mother’s Day celebration came to an abrupt end on Saturday night, after a man’s hand was partially severed during a cutlass attack. Carl Bassanta, 30, of Mary...
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Father stabs son to death
Over a decade of physical and verbal confrontations between father and son came to an end on Sunday night when Sham Siewnarine was stabbed to death, as his mother told T&T Guardian, by his...
View ArticleMan shot dead at Mother’s Day lime
A Mother’s Day lime turned into a wake on Sunday afternoon when a 35-year-old man was gunned down while at a party close to his home at Eastern Main Road, Tacarigua. Speaking with the media at the...
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Independents blank AG’s SSA meeting
While several Independent Senators didn’t attend yesterday’s meeting with the Attorney General on the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) Bill, the Opposition UNC has reluctantly agreed to meet with the AG...
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Teenager killed in flyover collision
Even though there has been a noticeable decrease in speeding on the nation’s highways with the introduction of speed radar guns, a teenage driver died yesterday from injuries sustained in a...
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Protest over pay turns ugly for OAS
Retrenched highway workers have threatened violence and vow to dispose of the remaining assets of their former employer, Brazilian construction company Construtora OAS, if they fail to get their...
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Trini survivor of Canada wildfire: Cars were melting by intense heat
Damian Devenish, who has been living at Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, for the past eight years, is one of over 100 Trinidadians who have been left homeless and jobless since the worst wildfire in...
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Health officials concerned: Mosquito diseases a security threat
The effects from various mosquito-borne diseases represent a “big hole” in regional health security and there must be a collaborative approach to eradicate this scourge.So said Dr James Hospedales,...
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Baby’s death ruled accidental
The death of two-year-old Jacob Bastaldo has been ruled accidental.Pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov said yesterday after an autopsy on the child’s body that the injuries were consistent with a fall.The...
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Venezuelans cautious entering Cedros, Icacos
Very few Venezuelans are taking the chance to enter T&T illegally through unofficial ports of entry as the coastline along the South Western peninsula is being manned around-the-clock by a T&T...
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Mere 1,200 update files
The Government has put “a temporary hold on 11,800 of 13,000 food cards recipients” as of May 1.Last September, the ministry also stopped the monthly $500 Baby Care Grant which was the brainchild of...
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US raps T&T on women’s and LGBTI rights
United States Ambassador to T&T John Estrada has told the Guardian that one of the priority policies of the US government in T&T is the promotion of human rights.Describing it as a “really,...
View ArticleArmed man found lying in wait
Good intelligence work by the security detail of Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama possibly averted embarrassment of an international nature involving Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith...
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2 independents support SSA Bill
The support of two Independent Senators — Hugh Ian Roach and Justin Junkere — last night assisted in propelling Government’s controversial Strategic Services Agency (SSA) Bill towards passage.The vote...
View ArticlePumpkin vine family in Tunapuna office
A distant relative of PNM Tunapuna MP Esmond Forde is currently employed at his constituency office and UNC Cumuto/Manzanilla MP Christine Newallo-Hosein was once employed at former UNC MP Jack...
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Police kill armed Freeport man
Like many of his neighbours, Rasheed Alexander was unable to find a job and he, along with eight others, had decided on Monday to sign up for courses at the National Energy Skills Centre...
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Former OAS workers block highway firm
Protesting former highway workers made good on their threat to disrupt continuation of work on the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension project to Pt Fortin yesterday as they blocked AECOM officials from...
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