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Daughter of missing T&T lecturer makes fish broth to remember mom
With no one to answer the phone in T&T, as her adopted countrymen celebrated Mother’s Day in Sweden yesterday, Helen Bergendahl said the only way she could feel connected to her missing parent was...
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Indian Arrival Day messages
President Carmona: Use Panchayat system moreOn the observance of Indian Arrival Day today, President Anthony Carmona says the indigenous Indian culture brought by indentured labourers benefitted not...
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Children’s Ark to continue fight against child trafficking
As non-profit organisation The Children’s Ark winds down from an intense six-month awareness campaign which saw them tackling issues such as child trafficking, sex, drugs and the illegal labour trade,...
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Young, successful entrepreneur battles incurable disease
At 27, Shananda Gopaul is already a successful businesswoman with her own store, Magnifique Gift Shop, in Princes Town. No one can tell looking at her but Gopaul is stricken with a debilitating disease...
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Canadian High Commission donates $50,000 to help fight child marriage
The Canadian High Commissioner to Port-of-Spain, Gérard Latulippe, says child marriage is a human rights issue and has provided $50,000 to the Rotary Club of Penal to assist in an awareness programme...
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This is Hindu business
“Mind yuh damn business and go to hell!”This was the Indian Arrival Day message sent by secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Sat Maharaj yesterday to Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph...
View ArticleSwaha leader: Women not just roti makers
The role of the Hindu woman should not be relegated to roti maker and pholourie fryer, says Pundit Hardeo Persad, spiritual head of Swaha.Speaking at Swaha’s Indian Arrival Day Dinner and Awards at the...
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Police group backs PM on Minister Dillon
The Police Service Social and Welfare Association has applauded Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley for his declaration that National Security Minister Edmund Dillon will not be dismissed.President Insp...
View ArticleNo word on Muslim detainees
Attorney Nafeesa Mohammed is calling for a more active relationship between T&T and the Saudi Arabia to facilitate local Muslims seeking visas for the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.Mohammed is...
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Holly B dies at 91
National icon Holly Betaudier, 91, fondly known as Holly B and the Arima Kid, has died. He reportedly passed away at around 11.15 pm on Sunday at his Glencoe home. Confirming the tragic news yesterday,...
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Rat invasion at PoS prison
President of the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) Ceron Richards is threatening to take the state to court if something is not done soon about deplorable conditions at the Port-of-Spain...
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TTUTA: School as usual today
President of the T&T Unified Teachers’ Association (TTUTA) Devanand Sinanan says he has confidence in the police following reports of a recording circulating on social media warning of terrorist...
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Sagewan Alli: We’re losing more than gaining
Economist Indera Sagewan-Alli says she has a responsibility to her ancestors in India and here at home to do better as that is an East Indian tradition. In an address to dozens of villagers yesterday...
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Ramesh: Anti-Gang Act flawed from day one
The Anti-Gang Act in its current forms can have far-reaching consequences which can result in murder cases being thrown out, says former Attorney General Ramesh Maharaj. He said the legislation was...
View ArticleCops probe hotel theft
Officials at the Magdalena Grand Beach & Golf Resort said yesterday they are “completely sympathetic to the bride and groom who may have been victims of a theft at the hotel.” The alleged incident...
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Error keeps 7 in jail overnight
Eight of the men accused of murdering businesswoman Vindra Naipaul-Coolman almost a decade ago, were yesterday acquitted at the end of the longest and most expensive trial in this country’s history. It...
View ArticleLawyers praise jury’s work
A fair and just outcome. These were the words used by both defence attorneys and prosecutors to describe the verdict in the Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder trial, which ended yesterday with eight men...
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Trini stabbed to death in NY
A 57-year-old Trinidadian woman was stabbed 83 times while at her Brooklyn, New York apartment on Saturday.She was identified as Liza Millet, a resident of the YWCA, at 30 Third Avenue in the Boerum...
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Carli Bay locked down as suspect drops grenade to evade cops
Panic engulfed the Couva community yesterday after police and soldiers locked down the area and searched the mangroves for a suspect believed to be toting a bag of weapons, including grenades.In the...
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No retreat from Sat
“Offensive and disrespectful.”That is how former president of the Trinidad Muslim League, Dr Nasser Mustapha, yesterday described secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Sat Maharaj’s attack...
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