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Fire officers weigh arson in Food Basket fire: Six employees to be quizzed
Approximately six Food Basket Market Place employees are expected to be interviewed by investigating fire prevention officers from the Central Division’s Fire Headquarters in Chaguanas today.The...
View ArticleDana murder accused claims plot to kill him
Murder accused and alleged gang leader, Rajaee Ali, is claiming prisons officers are seeking to have him killed. According to Ali’s attorney, Criston Williams, he spoke with his client yesterday and he...
View ArticleCoP selection process challenged: Judge reserves ruling in case
Judgment has been reserved in the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Cabinet’s new proposal for the selection and appointment of a police commissioner and his deputies. High Court Judge Peter...
View Article750-room Sandals for Tobago
A 750-room Sandals Resorts is earmarked for Tobago, as Government seeks to make the island a tourism destination in a bid to generate revenue, jobs and foreign exchange, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley...
View ArticleTwo killed in Cumuto accident
Two people were killed when the car they were in crashed into a truck and then slammed into a lamp post near Cumuto Junction on Monday night. According to police reports, the accident took place around...
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Rowley accuses TDC and NLCB: $734,000 spent to smear me
Two State agencies — the Tourism Development Company (TDC) and the National Lotteries Control Board (NLCB) — have been accused by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley of spending $734,000 of taxpayers’ money...
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Public Accounts Committee hears: TTMF’s advertised rates may be higher
Mortgages generated at rates of two and five per cent, respectively, as advertised by the T&T Mortgage Finance Company Ltd (TTMF), may in fact be at higher rates than the average person will have...
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Imbert says new debts keep being discovered: Government may not repay all $2b...
In response to Sunday Guardian reports of a $2B debt that the Government owes to contractors and service providers, Finance minister Colim Imbert has said that some of the money may not be repaid, if...
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Net closes on computers used to send stolen nude photos
As they close in on a local pornography ring, investigating officers say they may have to subpoena an American-based company to retrieve the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of the perpetrators...
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Cops raid WASA office, drugs, ammo seized
Three employees at the Water and Sewerage Authority’s (WASA) sub-office, Rapsey Street, St Clair, were arrested yesterday morning after police and WASA police staged a dramatic morning search of the...
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Dumas: Pay Rowley ‘suspension salary’
Former head of the public service, Reginald Dumas, says Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley should be paid for the period of his suspension from Parliament while serving as Opposition Leader in 2015.He said...
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Prisons’ boss on alleged plot to kill prisoner: It’s just confusion, bacchanal
Prisons Commissioner Sterling Stewart is standing by his men in face of allegations that prisons officers were involved in a plot to kill accused gang leader Rajaee Ali.He also challenged that the...
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Two men murdered in South
More than 17 bullets were fired as gunmen executed La Romain labourer Mark Kern Richardson in San Fernando yesterday morning. Richardson, 27, was one of two murders police in South Trinidad were...
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New charges of spying shock families
Shocked and disappointed, the families of the five T&T nationals detained in Venezuela have renewed calls for the Government to intervene at the diplomatic level since the men now face two new...
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Cabinet to get two audits into CDA
In two weeks’ time, Planning and Development Minister Camille Robinson-Regis will take to Cabinet two audits conducted into operations of the Chaguaramas Development Authority (CDA) which has unearthed...
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PCA wants power to charge errant cops
Seeking constitutional power to prosecute errant police officers, director of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) David West has vowed to restore public trust and confidence in the Police...
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Student captures scholarship, school gets award
When petite and shy Dianna Sophia Lopez walked into the Chaguanas North Secondary School (CNSS) in 2014 to pursue her A-levels, she was faced with a culture shock.Having studied in a non-disruptive and...
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Judge rules in Jack’s favour
In a small legal victory for former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, a local judge has refused the United States government permission to join the judicial review lawsuit brought by Warner challenging...
View ArticleMany state contracts illegal says PM
Government has encountered “a whole landslide” of improperly awarded contracts amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars that require careful scrutiny before any public money is paid to contractors,...
View ArticleBe wary of politics
As the country gets set to celebrate 79 years of the labour movement in T&T tomorrow, university lecturer Dr Jerome Teelucksingh is warning labour leaders about the dangers of their involvement in...
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