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Talks to start on lay-off of agriculture workers
Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries are set to meet with officials of the National Union of Government and Federated Workers (NUGFW) to decide the fate of 67 employees on...
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Venezuelans in T&T struggle to send goods home
Venezuelan nationals living in T&T are attempting to send medicine and basic health supplies with family and friends who are travelling to Venezuela. However, most of these supplies are being...
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Avinash tells farmers: Sell cocoa locally
Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture Avinash Singh is advising cocoa farmers to sell their beans to local chocolatiers rather than leave them wasting in the fields. He did so in...
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Opposition queries $.4m cheque to Garcia’s nephew
The Opposition is questioning the haste with which the State-owned Urban Development Corporation of T&T (Udecott) honoured a $.4 million bill in the name of its chairman’s nephew.Kerwyn Garcia, the...
View Article12 foreign women held for lewd dancing
A dozen female foreign nationals were detained by police for “lewd and suggestive” dancing at a bar in Sangre Grande yesterday morning.The bar’s owner and a man who is said to have brought the women to...
View ArticleOpposition, Govt MPs fail to file IC declarations
Former prime minister Patrick Manning has not filed his declarations with the Integrity Commission since 2011.The Integrity Commission yesterday provided a list of the names of people in public life...
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Central rivalling East PoS for badjohn status
The quieter profile now in force in central Trinidad as a result of joint police/army patrols belies the badlands image the area has carried lately.When Prime Minister Keith Rowley noted in Parliament...
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100 jobs with new JTA supermarket at C3 Centre
One hundred new jobs have been created with the opening of the fifth branch of JTA Supermarket at C3 Centre, Corinth, Ste Madeleine, yesterday.Scores of customers crowded the entrance as south...
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Venezuelan ‘bachacs’ sell goods at exorbitant prices
Mexico has its “coyotes” or human smugglers who smuggle people illegally across the border into the US. Venezuela has its “bachaqueros” or human bachacs, highly mobile black marketeers on motorcycles...
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Soldier Barry sues over SoE arrest
Bryan “Soldier Barry” Barrington, one of the men detained in 2011 in connection with an alleged plot to kill then prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and members of her Cabinet, has secured a...
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Govt not paying health suppliers
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh is failing to tell the public that the Government has not been paying suppliers for the necessary chemical reagents needed to screen blood, says medical practitioner...
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Deosaran: CoP acting record an embarrassment
Former chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) Prof Emeritus Ramesh Deosaran says the acting appointments of this country’s Police Commissioner is “an undue embarrassment and quite likely, a...
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Wastage and facilitation of corruption
Why has the disastrous state of accounting for the spending of billions of dollars of public funds been allowed to continue, notwithstanding the decades-long calls by successive auditors general for...
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Maduro facing protests in T&T
Members of the Muslim community as well as T&T-based Venezuelan activists will stage demonstrations at the Diplomatic Centre this morning “welcoming” Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro with...
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The Child Bride—Dularie’s story
Ria Rambally and Rosemarie Sant As the debate rages on over laws on child marriage, there is scepticism from an elderly woman who was married at the age of nine, before there were even any marriage...
View ArticleMan surrenders after chopping uncle to death
Remorseful after hacking his wife’s 65-year-old uncle to death, a Rio Claro gardener walked away from the murder scene to go home and say goodbye to his five children.“This is the last time you all...
View ArticleRowley: Killers ‘among us’
A lot of money is being spent on on National Security now since there are unidentified murderers walking around “among us,” Prime Minister Keith Rowley has said.Rowley made the point in addressing...
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Warner: Companies must stick to social pledges
Despite the recession, the corporate community needs to continue helping society’s vulnerable said Gervase Warner, Group CEO of the Massy Group. According to their July to December 2015 Newsletter,...
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Bomb survivor gets spiritual healing
It’s been 11 years since Yvonne McIvor’s leg was blown off in an explosion in downtown Port-of-Spain and she said she has never asked why it happened to her. “I didn’t ask why it happened to me. I have...
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Big jump in cost of Caroni fuel plant
Rosemarie Sant Nine years after the official start of the Liquid Fuels Pipeline project, the facility located at Frederick Settlement, Caroni, is said to be only “92 per cent complete” and the...
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