PM: Govt not idle on T&T Isis recruits
This country is on top of the situation involving the nine T&T nationals who were arrested in Turkey en route to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis), says head of the National...
View ArticleBoy, 9, killed in crossfire
A trip for a late-night snack cost a nine-year-old boy his life on Friday as he was shot several times in what police believe was crossfire between warring gangs in La Romaine, south Trinidad. Seon...
View ArticleOctober 30 launch for PNM campaign
The People’s National Movement is expected to complete screening of candidates for the local government elections by the first week of September, chairman Franklin Khan said yesterday.Khan, who spoke...
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Kamla: Victory is ours
Hours after the High Court dismissed the UNC’s election petition, the opposition party held a meeting and forum in Couva, rallying supporters for the upcoming local government elections.Addressing the...
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The high cost of ‘free’ education
A single parent, Charles, who has a son entering Form Two in Fatima College, has to spend $3,959.44 on the book list alone. He needs additional money for school uniforms, shoes, book bags and other...
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Millions needed to repair Napa defects
Two years after it was closed due to structural flaws, the National Academy for Performing Arts (Napa) remains closed and is not likely to reopen anytime soon. GML Enterprise Desk obtained an...
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Terror expert warns: Isis has foothold in T&T
T&T has a major problem with homegrown terrorism and the terrorist group Isis has a foothold in the country, says Professor W Andy Knight, former director of the Institute of International...
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Javelin bronze for T&T
Defending 2012 London Olympic Games javelin champion Keshorn Walcott failed to repeat his feat and had to settle for the bronze medal during the men’s finals at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro,...
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Toco welcome planned for Keshorn
Now is the time to build a stadium in Toco in honour of double Olympic medallist Keshorn Walcott, says chairman of the Sangre Grande Regional Corporation Martin “Terry” Rondon.Rondon made the statement...
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Pokemon adventures across T&T
At 1.08 am on a Tuesday, I’m in the passenger seat of my car, while my friend drives past the departure entrance of Piarco international airport as I attempt to gather items from various pokestops for...
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Rambharat promises salaries for reforestation workers
One day after National Reforestation workers protested for the second time over unpaid salaries, Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat is promising they will be paid by August 26.Responding to...
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$200,000 in cash burnt in bar fire
Over $200,000 in cash went up in flames yesterday as fire destroyed a bar in Chase Village, Chaguanas.Two employees narrowly escaped injury after bolting from the building. According to reports, around...
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Nine-year-old was executed
Southern Division police now believe nine-year-old Seon Paul was executed and not hit by a stray bullet as they initially believed. Paul, of Byron Street, La Romaine, was shot shortly after 9 pm on...
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Bronze just as good as gold
Ungrateful.That was the word used by Keshorn Walcott’s mother yesterday, as she lashed out at social media critics of her son’s Olympic bronze medal effort at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro,...
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Neighbours rejoice Keshorn’s victory
Bronze is the new gold. This is how neighbours of Keshorn Walcott described their feelings on his third-place finish in Saturday’s javelin event at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro,...
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PM: Olympic dream still alive
The Rio Games is not the end of T&T’s Olympic dream, says Prime Minister Keith Rowley, in his congratulatory message to bronze medallist Keshorn Walcott.In a statement yesterday, Rowley said while...
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Tobago teens killed in crash
Two teenagers were killed in an accident in Tobago yesterday. Police identified them as Lariann Perez, 19, of Signal Hill, and Shi-ann Thomas, 13, a student, of Glen Road.The accident took place...
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Art can change our behaviour
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the work of Trinidad’s first internationally renowned artist Michel-Jean Cazabon is so unknown in this country that it’s embarrassing.He said at least 95 per cent of...
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CDA to reclaim convention centre
Plans are afoot by the Chaguaramas Development Authority (CDA) to reclaim the historical Chaguaramas Hotel and Convention Centre, which was leased to an investor by the former People’s Partnership...
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Family drowning in medical bills
Valdeen Shears-NeptuneThe parents of eight-year-old Kaj Romain, who underwent life-saving brain surgery in Florida, United States, earlier this month, say they are making all attempts to find evidence...
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