Trinity launches bid to raise US$15m
Trinity, this country’s largest independent exploration and production company, yesterday announced plans to raise approximately US$15 million as part of a wider financial restructuring.Executive...
View ArticleEarly Christmas for San Juan looters
Christmas came two weeks early for some looters in San Juan yesterday.Last month, on November 21, D&J Budget Mart Limited, located at Prizgar Road in San Juan, went up in flames.D&J is a...
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Teen questioned in Shannon’s murder released
At 8.50 pm last night, Matthew Maharaj, 18, one of two men held in connection with the death of Shannon Banfield was released from police custody. Maharaj is now questioning how he will continue with...
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CoP Williams: We did all we could
Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams says the T&T Police Service (TTPS) did all it could in the search for Shannon Banfield.It would be unfair to claim otherwise, Williams said. Banfield,...
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Women living in fear
From beheadings and having their throats slit, to brutal sexual attacks and disappearing without a trace, women in this country are becoming more and more afraid of being attacked for being loud or...
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Bring on the death penalty
The death of missing bank clerk Shannon Banfield has been the tipping point for Brent Gerard Housian to create his petition — Bring back the death penalty to T&T on Change.org.The discovery of...
View Article‘#lifeinleggings impact monumental’
Co-director of Womantra Amanda McIntyre says what #lifeinleggings did was monumental in the regional campaign towards the eradication of violence against women and girls. She said it was the creation...
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Daughter disses Valencia cops for laid-back attitude
“The police face so much ugliness that they have become so disconnected and desensitized to people’s pain and hurt when they treating a missing person so casually.” Those were the feelings of Linda...
View ArticleArtisans rake in a few millions
The money generated among local merchants in the cottage industry is just “a few million dollars”, says President of the T&T Manufacturers Association Dr Rolph Balgobin. However, he said the...
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Surrender to polic
“Come forward and take responsibility for your crime.” These were the words of Joseph Changar to the murderers of his brother-in-law, Cyril Ramesh Maharaj yesterday.Changar delivered the eulogy at...
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IN DEFENCE OF WHITE PEOPLE
Kevin BaldeosinghIt seems to me that many of the people outside America who are reviling the electoral victory of Donald Trump are, in fact, secretly pleased that the ignorant billionaire is going to...
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State must protect citizenry too
Disgusted by the daily bloodshed and lawlessness sweeping the country, Roman Catholic priest Father Ian Taylor is calling for the death penalty to be swiftly reinstated.In delivering the sermon during...
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Network of NGOs: End violence now
Women, men and children assembled at the National Library, Abrecromby Street, Port-of-Spain, last evening demanding an end to violence in T&T.This as the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of...
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Local artistes ‘lock arms’ for murder victims
Dozens of concerned citizens including artistes such as Mavis John, Kees Dieffenthaller, Teresa Awai, Anya Ayoung-Chee and Danielle Jones-Hunte yesterday turned up at Nelson Mandela Park, St James to...
View ArticleAcid bath victim wants help for battered women
Ten months after years of abuse culminated in a vicious, violent attack on her life, mother of three, Rachel Chadee, is calling on those in authority to do more to help battered women in T&T.At her...
View ArticleGanga wants waiver on Standing Orders
In an unprecedented development, Chief Whip Ganga Singh is calling on the Government to agree on a waiver of the House of Representatives standing orders in Parliament today to allow Opposition MPs to...
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Al-Rawi: System will shut down
T&T’s banking system will “shut down” if the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is not passed in Parliament says Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi.“What is on the table for us is to have...
View ArticleSupport needed at home
Child rights activist Diana Mahabir-Wyatt says she is not surprised that troubled children as young as seven and eight are contemplating suicide.In fact, Mahabir-Wyatt said she had encountered cases...
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No arrest yet in Jenice’s death
Robert Figaro, the father of four-year-old Jenice Figaro, said he is baffled by the failure of the police to arrest a woman suspected of beating his child to death.“This woman is texting me every day...
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‘We need a house for Christmas’
For Christmas, most children wish for toys and electronics but for the seven Seecharan siblings, their only wish this Christmas is for a place to call home.Their wooden, two bedroom home, in...
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