‘Church boy’ killed in Enterprise
Enterprise, a Chaguanas community now heavily associated with criminality, would not have such a stigma if more men like Adam Boney, who was killed on Monday night, lived in the area. This is the view...
View ArticleCop charges, puts mom in labour off PBR: Husband to contest ticket
A week after a very pregnant Arlene Laban-Ammon and her husband were stopped, ticketed and ordered off the Priority Bus Route while she was in labour, she is now calling on the authorities for clearer...
View ArticleTobago chamber upset at sudden ferry suspension
Members of the Inter-island Ferry Committee of the Tobago Chamber of Commerce say they are disappointed with the treatment meted out to them by the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago and the...
View ArticleGarcia promises teachers quality classrooms
Education Minister Anthony Garcia is committed to providing quality classroom environments conducive to teaching and learning. He says this will be highlighted during the upcoming budget debate over...
View ArticleBrig Smart on ex-soldiers held with arms: They followed wrong path
Chief of Defence Staff Brigadier Rodney Smart said yesterday’s attempt by two discharged Special Forces soldiers to allegedly burn a house in Princes Town was part of yet another attempt by the...
View ArticleSuspects linked to attack on home
After cowering in her bed from the rattling sound of bullets striking her home and the smell of gasoline at her front door, New Grant mother Odessa Constance is now afraid to sleep. At 3 pm yesterday,...
View ArticleNot all cops killed will get $m payout
Several families of officers who were killed but not in the line of duty will not be recipients of the $1 million compensation grant for victims. Relatives of members of the protective services who...
View ArticleBoy writes PM over detention of dad in Venezuela: Please, help free my father
A handwritten letter penned by 11-year-old Zakariya Pitilal, of Cocorite, addressed to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley begged him as head of the nation to have his father returned to him, his younger...
View ArticleHDC: Mortgage payers will pay property tax
Citizens who are paying mortgages on Housing Development Corporation (HDC) houses will have to pay their own property taxes and will see it manifested in an increase in their monthly installments. This...
View Article$85m on transport plan for East-West Corridor
An estimated $85 million has been allocated in 2017 budget funding for a Port-of-Spain/East-West Corridor transportation project. The figure is listed under the Infrastructure Development (ID) Fund in...
View ArticleCulture Minister tells Ramleela groups: Government committed to preserve...
Expressing satisfaction with T&T’s diverse culture, Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts, Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, says Government remains committed to preserving T&T’s rich...
View ArticleDouble murder rocks Las Lomas
Police are investigating a double murder which took place in Las Lomas, Cunupia on Wednesday night.Around 9 pm, Ricardo James, a one-handed man, also known by the moniker Oney, and Isiah Gulliame known...
View ArticlePolice kill wanted man
David “Sugars” Gittens lengthy run from the law ended in death on Wednesday when he was killed in a shootout with police in Point Fortin.Gittens, who had outstanding warrants dating back to 2008 for...
View ArticleBreaking: Four fire officers injured in flood rescue
Four firemen are being treated at the Eric Williams Medical Science Complex in Mt. Hope after they were injured while assisting citizens distressed by flood waters in Barataria.They were injured after...
View ArticleTTPS : "Don't blame us for ticket given to pregnant woman."
The T&T Police Service (TTPS) says it was a officer assigned to the Transit Police Unit who issued a ticket to a man, who was taking his pregnant wife to hospital for emergency treatment, for using...
View ArticleVideo: Citizen captures moment fireman gets shocked from high tension wires.
T&T citizen Shinelle Medina, today captured the moment a firefighter in Barataria is shocked by electrical wires after assisting citizens trapped in flood water.
View ArticleProbe sale of TTNGL now
Probe it, Prime Minister! With that demand yesterday, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar called on Government to halt the sale of assets of Trinidad and Tobago NGL and First Citizens Holdings Ltd...
View ArticleKamla’s claims absurd—Imbert
Finance Minister Colm Imbert yesterday dismissed claims by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar that the proposed sale of shares at Trinidad and Tobago Natural Gas Liquids Ltd (TTNGL) was intended...
View ArticleChampion of the people
President Anthony Carmona and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley sat just feet apart from each other yesterday in the front pews of the St Charles RC Church, Tunapuna. The men, holders of the two highest...
View ArticleResidents count their losses
Even as they stacked water-soaked appliances, broken furniture and slushy rolls of carpet outside their homes, La Romaine residents yesterday braced for more flooding as the Meteorological Office...
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