Mourners told: Take a stand against drugs, guns at home
The country is deteriorating morally because parents and by extension the communities are not training their children to do what is right and shun what isn’t.This was the message delivered to a handful...
View ArticleLet my daughter be last C-section death
People’s National Movement (PNM) operations officer Irene Hinds, whose daughter died hours after surgery, made an impassioned plea, yesterday, for the death of her daughter not to be in vain and that...
View ArticleKamla accepts Opposition Leader’s post
Political Leader of the United National Congress Kamla Persad-Bissessar will receive her instrument of appointment from President Anthony Carmona on Monday. Her appointment takes place two days before...
View ArticleHealth Minister: Committee to look at maternal death
After receiving an interim report into the death of 34-year-old mother Kellane Hinds on Monday, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh says he will set up a committee to look into the issue of maternal...
View ArticleInvaders’ history unmasked for all
/“An historic, exciting, and memorable occasion,” was how George Matthew, director of Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) Invaders Steel Orchestra, described the launch of the book Invaders Steel Orchestra:...
View ArticleHealth card under review
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh says his ministry intends to review the national health card as the Government looks to transition to a comprehensive national insurance system by 2018.“Our...
View ArticleGladiator: I will examine my future with the party
People’s National Movement (PNM) long-standing activist Ricardo “Gladiator” Welch says he will examine his future with the party following his suspension yesterday.Welch, who became a PNMite in the...
View ArticleTwiggy: I’m a PNM baby
Christine “Twiggy” Livia yesterday called on the People’s National Movement (PNM) to put their house in order following her suspension from the party.She also insisted that she would not sever ties...
View ArticleI was never a PNM member--Paray
United National Congress (UNC) MP for Mayaro Rushton Paray, who was expelled from the PNM yesterday, said he was never a member of the People's National Movement (PNM).In an email to the Guardian...
View ArticlePM to give first month’s salary to Balisier House
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley will donate his “entire” first month’s salary to the Balisier Fund.This fund is for the reconstruction of Balisier House.The announcement was made by Rowley at the...
View ArticleNo legal basis under Constitution for matter to succeed—Ramesh
Despite being granted leave by the High Court to challenge the election results of six United National Congress (UNC) seats, former attorney general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj is maintaining that there is...
View ArticleIt’s up to the rule of law
Political analyst Dr Indira Rampersad says Friday’s granting of leave by the High Court to the United National Congress (UNC) to challenge the results in six seats which it contested in the general...
View ArticleUNC’s fight for six seats will flop—Khan
The People’s National Movement (PNM) says it is not unduly perturbed by the ruling on the general election by a High Court judge on Friday.In fact, PNM chairman Franklin Khan said the party’s lawyers...
View ArticleTwo more killed at bars
Two men were murdered before dawn yesterday while liming at a bar in two separate incidents.In the first killing, which happened around 4 am, police said gunmen opened fire at Kourts Bar along Railway...
View ArticleTobago records second murder in one week
Tobago has recorded the fourth murder for 2015, the second one for the week in the same village. Dead is 46-year-old Kenvern Joefield of Nursery School Trace, Lambeau.According to reports, the incident...
View ArticleTwo men held with guns, ammunition in Tobago
Two men were arrested in Tobago yesterday morning after being stopped by officers of the Old Grange Police Station.According to police, around 11.30 Insp Earl Aurthur, Sgt Wilson and Sgt Clarke of the...
View ArticleOpposition blames PNM for murder spike
Another double murder and another young couple killed by the gun.This time in crime hotspot of Enterprise, Chaguanas taking the murder toll, since the September 7 elections, to 23 in 13 days.Five...
View ArticlePolice not to blame for murder spike—CoP
Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams said that murders in this country had nothing to do with the police but was a social issue which was not being properly addressed.Williams made the remark...
View ArticleOne of the better energy ministers
Chairman of the People’s National Movement (PNM) Franklin Khan in his tribute to former PNM deputy political leader Errol Mahabir, who died at hospital on Saturday, said he was a servant of the PNM in...
View ArticleAG decides today on Warner’s extradition
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi is expected to announce today his decision on the extradition request from the United States for Jack Warner to face trial on a series of criminal charges related to his...
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