Video of husband’s killing disturbs wife
Added to the pain of losing her husband of 15 years, Crystal Ali said it is even more painful now knowing his last moments are circulating on social media in an 11- second video. Ali’s husband, Kevin...
View ArticleTears for Joel
Teachers at Success Laventille Secondary School spent over two hours yesterday, relating their frustration of having to be more than teachers to many of the students in the school.During the meeting in...
View ArticleDillon defends move to buy out Smart’s leave
National Security Minister Edmund Dillon says the Government’s decision to buy out the leave of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Brigadier General Rodney Smart was not without precedence and was done to...
View ArticleCouva man murdered
Couva resident Marcus Henry was pronounced dead on arrival at the Couva Health Facilty yesterday morning a short while after he was found riddled with bullets.According to police, Henry, 41, of Martha...
View ArticleHaitians becoming desperate
Khamal GeorgesEven as international aid continues to mount for disaster-stricken Haiti, hopelessness and desperation are settling over affected communities.It’s in the eyes of the children who haven’t...
View ArticleWarning of cigarette ‘suitcase trade’
With the recent increase in the price of cigarettes, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh is warning that this may result in a flourishing suitcase trade as there may be greater demand for the...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal begins hearing of UNC petitions
Lawyers for the United National Congress (UNC) yesterday began presenting submissions in its appeal of a decision by a High Court Judge who dismissed its five election petitions challenging the result...
View ArticleTwo remanded for murder
Two men have been remanded into custody after appearing in different courts charged with murder.Randy Francis, 29, appeared before Chaguanas Magistrate Joanne Connor yesterday charged with the murder...
View ArticleMom grieving over murdered son dies
Exactly two weeks after the murder of her son, Theresa Liverpool passed away yesterday.Relatives say since the murder of 23-year-old Keston Jeffery, his mother had been grieving and was never the...
View ArticleCrying Ian begs fans for $upport
Television personality Ian Alleyne yesterday made a public appeal to friends and fans to assist him in helping to cover the $748,000 debt he incurred from defaming businessman Shaun Sammy on his Crime...
View ArticleCops, PCA launch probes
Two investigations have been launched into a viral video showing driver Jared Edwards defiantly sitting atop his car bonnet as it was being towed away by a wrecker to the impound lot at Sea Lots,...
View ArticleMissing beauty queen found
Dannyelle Cole is back at her Guapo home safely. The 21-year-old was reported missing by her family yesterday morning after she failed to return to her Cochrane Village, Guapo, home on Sunday night.She...
View ArticleWife warns cops on quizzing deportee: Bat in your crease
“Don’t even think about interrogating my husband.”This was the angry warning to Government and the police yesterday from Saddiqua Pitilal, wife of one of the five T&T men now awaiting deportation...
View ArticleHaitians helping less fortunate
While Haiti calls for help from beyond its borders, help is also coming from within.“I had some money, so I used it to take care of the people.” It’s a simple yet powerful statement from one of the...
View ArticleFed up lifeguards after no action by Dillon: Return us to Local Govt
Fed up and frustrated over what they claim has been absolutely no representation from National Security Minister Edmund Dillon, members of the Lifeguards Association of T&T are demanding that they...
View ArticleRetraining coming for social workers
Officers of the Social Development Ministry who may be ill-treating members of the public will be getting training soon in a quality customer care programme.Social Development Minister Cherrie Ann...
View ArticleStipend delay angers nursing students
A delay in the payment of a monthly stipend to nursing students prompted protest action on Monday.An official of the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of T&T (Costaatt), who spoke on...
View ArticleFour-way fight for TTUTA’s top post
Disappointed that he was not selected by his team TNT to contest the position of president of the T&T Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA), second vice-president Lynsley Doodhai has decided to...
View ArticleUNC petition rejected again
The Court of Appeal took a mere two hours yesterday to reject an appeal by the United National Congress (UNC) challenging the dismissal of its election petitions over the results of last September’s...
View ArticleMayor on wrecked driver: Cops can also err
Port-of-Spain mayor Keron Valentine has added his voice to the wrecking of a vehicle in Port-of-Spain this week which sparked outrage, saying not all the time the police were known to follow...
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