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Dealers now sitting ducks for criminals
Moves by gas station operators to accept cash from customers over electronic payments will make them sitting ducks to the criminal elements, president of the Petroleum Dealers’ Association of T&T...
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Choose life, over darkness
Breast cancer survivor Keisha Butcher, 40, sent a strong message to victims of the terminal illness, saying it is important to overcome in their spirit and attitude as the only means of choosing to...
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$50,000 pledge for prostate cancer fight
Starting November 1, Carib Brewery, under its brand Stag, will make an initial contribution of TT$50,000 to the early detection and screening of prostate cancer in T&T.At a media launch, which was...
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18 months jail for motor death
A Tobago man was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in jail for motor vehicle manslaughter.High Court judge David Harris, presiding in the Tobago Supreme Court, handed down the sentence.Jairon Phillips,...
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No bail for law student and relatives on fraud charges
A final-year law student, her sister and her brother-in-law, accused of trying to defraud a commercial bank of $21,000, were remanded into custody, yesterday, to reappear in the Couva Magistrates’...
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Lecturer wants probe into Carmona on housing $$
In an historic move and in the midst of what she claims are death threats, University of the West Indies lecturer, Rhoda Bharath, has written to acting Commissioner of Police (CoP) Harold Phillips...
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Ria spotted in Venezuela
As Venezuelan news site Tane Tanae reports that missing Debe hairstylist Ria Sookdeo was sighted in Tucupita. Her father, Frankie Rajkumar, is pleading with investigators to go across there to search...
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Man dies in highway accident
An early morning accident along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway has claimed the life of a motorcyclist.The incident took place around 7:15 am near the El Soccorro walkover.It is believed the victim...
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Regiment probe almost complete
The independent regiment probe into online photographs of Attorney General’s Faris Al-Rawi’s children posing with high-powered weapons at a training exercise in Camp Cumuto, is expected to be completed...
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Holiday for First Peoples
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the First Peoples of T&T will be given a one-off national holiday in recognition of their contribution to T&T.Rowley said that as he addressed a Divali...
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Lucky to be alive
Unemployed for the past year, Lesford Loney’s decision to earn an income as a PH taxi almost proved deadly when he was robbed, beaten and almost shot by teenage bandits on Wednesday night.With his...
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New evidence against Partap
State prosecutors are seeking to adduce new evidence against former government minister Collin Partap in his appeal over his conviction for failing to submit to a breathalyser test almost four years...
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Wife beater sent to jail
A Woodland man who beat his wife with a cutlass during an argument at their home will spend the next five days in prison awaiting sentence.Wahid Hosein, 45, pleaded guilty to maliciously wounding his...
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Sisters get bail on bank fraud charges
Bail in the total sum of $110,000 was yesterday granted to the law student, her sister and brother-in-law who allegedly tried to conspire to defraud a commercial bank.Abigail Jessica Paris, 21, Cecelia...
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Girl, 7, dies in Marabella
Seven-year-old Anisha Mohipath was excited about spending the Divali weekend at her big sister's home. But tragedy struck around 12.15 am when a fire from an adjacent abandoned house spread to her...
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Retiree shot in bar
Retired Ministry of Works employee Mohandass Ramasar also known as “Boysie” was a brave man.So when he was offered a job seven months ago to run a bar he did not let fear of being robbed affect his...
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Pedestrian killed in Barataria
A 52-year-old man was killed on Friday night while attempting to cross the road in Barataria.Around 9.20 pm on Friday, PC Loubon, attached to the Commissioner’s Office, was driving an unmarked vehicle...
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Govt spends US$.5m for flu shots
Government has spent approximately US$500,000 to acquire 100,000 doses of the influenza vaccine as they have begun ramping up the annual immunization drive to ensure the most vulnerable groups of...
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Friend kills friend in row over Rowley
An alcohol-fuelled dispute reportedly over politics turned deadly yesterday morning when a man was attacked and stabbed twice with a garden fork allegedly by his best friend in Preysal Village,...
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The “racial undercurrents inflamed by platform rhetoric” during the build-up to the last general election have not yet died down, says criminologist Prof Ramesh Deosaran.In fact, that racial tension...
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