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Carmona signs off on SSA Act
President Anthony Carmona yesterday assented to the Strategic Services Amendment Act (SSA). The legislation seeks to give the SSA a wider mandate to investigate people suspected of involvement in...
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Minister’s wife seeks end to child marriages
Camille McMillan-Rambharat, wife of Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat, is leading an online public campaign to end child marriages in T&T.Using her Facebook page, McMillan-Rambharat has been...
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Friends of Cuba to US: Friends of Cuba to US:
Two months after US President Barack Obama visited Cuba as part of the process to normalise relations, he is being urged to further demonstrate his commitment to the process by immediately removing the...
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Parents in protest over conditions at ‘plywood school’
Spending $50 million to aid Venezuela’s food crisis and $900,000 on a Mercedes Benz for Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley seems to be more important than the welfare of pupils attending the Siparia Union...
View ArticleLocal activists write Queen for help in fighting crime
Local activists Nalini Dial, who is leader of the National Coalition for Transformation and businesswoman Saviri Maharaj are seeking assistance from the United Kingdom in wake of the upsurge in...
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Religions want age hike to 18
Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Harris and Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha general secretary Satnarayan Maharaj were not among representatives of 17 religious groups who yesterday gave their unanimous...
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We want real killers caught
We want justice for her too. So said former murder accused Anthony Dwayne Gloster yesterday, hours after he and his two brothers — Shervon and Devon Peters — and five of their neighbours were acquitted...
View ArticleHarris refuses war on words on child marriage
Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Harris says he has never disrespected any religious leader in Trinidad and Tobago and has no intention of descending into the gutter at this time. “I am not going down...
View ArticleT&T to use US help in tracking voice notes
Police are investigating the origin of the voice notes circulating, warning of threats to schools yesterday as well as threats to bomb malls over last weekend and if need be will be using the...
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Husband, family refuse comment on verdict
The relatives of kidnapped and murdered Xtra Foods Supermarket CEO Vindra Naipaul-Coolman are remaining tight-lipped over Tuesday’s High Court ruling. Eight of the 12 men charged were acquitted after...
View ArticleNidco in money woes
The National Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (Nidco) is in a financial crisis and could be out of money by the end of this month. The company had also accumulated $49.7 million in losses as at...
View ArticleMan killed and friend shot in home invasion
In what police believe was the consequence of a drug deal gone bad, 48-year-old Shazard “Roti Man” Mohammed was executed on his bed less than a month after moving into his new home. His roommate,...
View ArticlePathologist pulled from murder victim’s autopsy
Pathologist Dr Eslyn Mc Donald-Burris was pulled yesterday from performing the autopsy of murder victim Joseph Logan at the Forensic Science Centre, St James.Logan, 31, died after he was struck in the...
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With the influx of Venezuelans, Cedros prepares for Zika threat
Mosquito traps are being used to keep off mosquitoes in the Cedros region as fears of Zika worsened following an influx of Venezuelan nationals at the Cedros port. Immigration officials said an average...
View ArticleDillon: T&T for intel sharing with US
An officer from the T&T Defence Force will be stationed at a US facility, expediting the exchange of intelligence information between T&T and the United States, National Security Minister...
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Strong case was made out—DPP
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard has defended his office’s prosecution in the Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder trial.Speaking yesterday with reporters outside the Hall of Justice,...
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Audit on ex-Tobago ministry finds wastage: Baker had valet to fix image
Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Stuart Young says a State enterprise and facilities for a valet employed to supervise the “sartorial image” of the former Minister of Tobago Development, Dr...
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Ex-accused wants cops to reopen case
One of the men who was acquitted of the murder of Xtra Foods CEO Vindra Naipaul-Coolman has called on police to reopen their investigation into the murder.Jamille Garcia made the call yesterday after...
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Coercion may be at play
The Children’s Authority is currently investigating ten cases of child marriages which are deemed to have occurred in curious circumstances, the authority’s director Sharifa Ali-Abdullah said...
View ArticlePrison guard arrested after going home with keys
A junior prison officer was detained by police yesterday evening, after he failed to return a bunch of keys for the general population section of the Port-of-Spain Prison in a timely manner.According...
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