It all starts in early childhood
There are many quotations about the importance of the human experience of childhood. The best known is: “Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man.” This is attributed to either St...
View ArticleCLF mum on $b payback plan
While CLF shareholder representatives are mum about the plan they have offered Government to repay the 2009 bailout debt, part of the proposal includes getting back various companies from Angostura...
View ArticlePTSC wants fare hike
The Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) is currently preparing a draft note to take before Cabinet for an increase in the current bus fares, which have not been increased since 1990.The move is...
View ArticleMystery paralysis
VALDEEN SHEARS-NEPTUNEAn investigation is to be launched into how a young expectant mother lost her child and is now apparently inflicted by a mystery paralysis after she was admitted to the...
View ArticleRat attack in the city
The Port-of-Spain City Corporation is about to embark on a major eradication of the city’s rat population.Outgoing Mayor Keron Valentine made the pledge yesterday, saying he was well aware of the...
View ArticleSat: People seeing race in roti talk
Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) Satnarayan Maharaj says it is unfortunate that the Divali meal served by former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar at the Diplomatic Centre...
View ArticleGun video under probe
Officers of the Port-of-Spain Division are now investigating a 23-second long video clip, showing a known criminal brandishing a gun with two extra cylindrical magazines.Police identified the man who...
View ArticleRadical changes proposed
The Opposition United National Congress (UNC) is proposing a radical overhaul of Local Government in T&T as it seeks to woo voters to give it a clear mandate in the November 28 elections.The party...
View ArticleCops shot teen five times
Fifteen-year-old Josiah Ramsahai who was killed by police last Friday in a reported shoot-out with police was shot five times with a high-powered rifle his autopsy revealed.According to forensic...
View Article11,500 living with virus in T&T
A video has gone viral on social media purportedly showing two male hospital employees having sex in one of the bathroom’s of this country’s public hospitals.Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh, when...
View ArticleRamdeen accuses HDC official of bid rigging
United National Congress Senator Gerald Ramdeen has accused a top Housing Development Corporation (HDC) official of bid rigging.He made the accusation during a press conference at the Hyatt Regency,...
View ArticleT&T national cops Rhodes scholarship
Joel Julien T&T national Simone Delzin is the latest recipient of the Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholarship.Delzin, 22, was chosen from among nine candidates who were interviewed on Tuesday at...
View ArticleSchool visit turns heated: Garcia jeered PTA president lists woes at school
Education Minister Anthony Garcia was jeered by parents of students at the Santa Flora Government Primary School during a visit yesterday. Parent Michael Nemai confronted Garcia during the encounter,...
View ArticlePolice shoot suspect after bar robbery
A Diego Martin man was shot by police and his two accomplices arrested following a robbery in Williamsville on Tuesday.The 22-year-old suspect, of Richplain Road, was warded under police guard at the...
View ArticleFactory torched in arson attack
A San Francique family is facing a bleak Christmas after their home and furniture business were destroyed yesterday in a suspected arson attack yesterday.The family says they estimated their loses to...
View ArticleInjunction removed but assets still frozen
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the National Gas Company’s (NGC) asset freezing order against mega-contractor ,Super Industrial Services (SIS) over the controversial Beetham Water Treatment Plant...
View ArticleUNC and PNM agree: More municipal police can make a difference
The ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) and the Opposition United National Congress (UNC) both believe that municipal police have a greater role to play in the fight against crime.But while one...
View ArticlePoint mayor can still seek office
Point Fortin Mayor Clyde Paul was convicted yesterday on a drunk-driving charge and fined $7,000. However, the conviction does not make him ineligible to run for public office.In default, Paul, who has...
View ArticlePrisons officer shot at DVD business
The Prison Officers Association is raising issues again about the protection of their members in the wake of another attack on an officer.Although police officers yesterday were still trying to...
View ArticleHart: I’m not worried
WALTER ALIBEYNational coach Stephen Hart said he will have no problem with any decision made by the T&T Football Association (TTFA) as it relates to his future with the Soca Warriors.Hart comments...
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