Abdulah calls for action on DNA bank, crime: Citizens’ security not being...
Calling on Government to say when the DNA Bank will be set up and when the criminal justice system will be reformed, the Movement for Social Justice yesterday called for clear policy decisions to...
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WASA cuts back on rentals and contracts
The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has instituted two measures that have begun to save the cash-strapped company millions of dollars.Chairman of WASA, Romney Thomas, said the authority had...
View ArticleMurdered woman’s mother: I got a call from suspected killer
Hours after murdering Frieda Goodridge outside her business on Saturday, a Mt Hope man telephoned the victim's mother but before he could say his piece she ended the conversation.According to police...
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Trinis in Jamaica brace for Matthew
Trinis living in Jamaica got a couple more hours to prepare for Hurricane Matthew yesterday, as the category four storm slowed its pace and changed its catastrophic strike towards Haiti on Monday night...
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No bail for third man held in $1m PriceSmart robbery
A third man has been charged for the $1.5 million robbery at PriceSmart’s Mausica branch in July.Kurt Cupid, 44, of Orchard Drive, Moka, Maraval, appeared before Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar in...
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Family wants full-scale probe
Relatives of a 36-year-old worker who was fatally struck by a steel beam at his workplace, yesterday, are calling for a full-scale investigation into the incidentShane Diaram, a lorryman at Dansteel...
View ArticlePM’s comment on weaning misrepresented
The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) yesterday sought to clear up what it called a misrepresentation of statements Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley made at a function in Laventille last weekend, as he...
View ArticleGulf View challenges $18m lawsuit
Gulf View Medical is challenging the decision of a High Court Judge to award former finance minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira $18 million in compensation for negligence in the death of her husband, who...
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1,800 signatures secured
The group Stand Up T&T has started a petition calling on Finance Minister Colm Imbert to repeal the seven per cent online tax introduced in the 2016/2017 budget last Friday. The group started the...
View ArticleColm at chamber forum: More cuts will bring less jobs
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday further cuts to the 2016/2017 budget may result in adverse effects on the economy and therefore more cuts could not have been done. Further cuts, he said,...
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Al-Rawi: Need to ‘follow the money’
Focus on "following the money" and not the scraps of crime.This was the strong appeal made by Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi to Crime Stoppers yesterday as he urged the organisation to place greater...
View ArticleArcelorMittal fined $1.6m for pollution
Cashed-strapped multinational steel producer ArcelorMittal has been ordered to pay the Point Lisas Industrial Port Development Corporation Ltd (Plipdeco) $1.6 million in compensation for failing to...
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Slain prisons officer’s dad as Govt okays compensation: It can’t bring back a...
Relatives of 16 members of the protective services killed in the line of duty will now benefit from the $1 million compensative package from the Government after Cabinet approved the payout yesterday....
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PM: T&T will help storm-hit Haiti
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says T&T will provide assistance to Haiti if requested following passage of the Category 4 Hurricane Matthew, which hit the Caribbean nation yesterday.Rowley said so...
View ArticleODPM ready to help
The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) said it stands ready to assist the impoverished country of Haiti which Hurricane Matthew pounded on Tuesday, leaving behind death and...
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HDC to pay for its renters
Citizens on rental or rent to own plans with the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) will not have to pay property taxes for homes they are occupying.The HDC will foot this bill for them, says HDC...
View ArticleRecipients of T&TEC rebate still mystery
Until the Ministry of Public Utilities finalises the mechanisms for giving 25 per cent electricity rebates, the 120,000 beneficiaries announced by Finance Minister Colm Imbert during the budget...
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Colm not budging on online shopping tax
Finance Minister Colm Imbert is not budging from his intention to impose a seven per cent tax for online shopping. This in spite of a petition by the group, Stand Up T&T, which has garnered some...
View ArticleDivision head on crime spike in Central: Gangsters now getting bail
Six weeks after the expiration of the Bail (Amendment) Bill and Anti-Gang legislation, head of the Central Division Senior Supt Floris Hodge-Griffith says criminals who were once behind bars are the...
View ArticlePH driver hijacked, robbed and murdered
Although police were alerted to a man being badly beaten by three assailants on Monday evening, Keston Jeffrey’s battered and semi-nude corpse was only found yesterday morning, hidden under a...
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