C&W offers VSEP to workers
C&W Communications, the parent company of Flow and C&W Business, has offered voluntary separation of employment packages to scores of workers.According to a statement issued yesterday, the...
View ArticleNo bail for accused in Chinese kidnapping
A 32-year-old pie vendor of Mustapha Lane, El Socorro, was denied bail yesterday when he appeared in court facing six charges including kidnapping a courier attached to the Chinese Embassy.Quacy Bowen...
View ArticleMan, 37, in court for woman’s murder
Eight days after the semi-nude body of a woman was found near a drain in Point Fortin with her head bashed in, a mason has appeared in court for her murder.Wesley Taylor, 37, appeared before Point...
View ArticleAl-Rawi going ahead with legislative fix to Marcia fiasco
Despite Opposition objections, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi hasn’t thrown out the Summary Courts and Preliminary Inquiries legislation as possible solutions concerning the 53 incomplete cases left by...
View ArticleFake Viagra, birth control pills flood T&T market
Fake erectile dysfunction drug Viagra and birth control pill are among the growing list of bogus pharmaceuticals which are now popular in T&T.This was revealed by Dave Cording, Crime Stoppers...
View ArticleParliament can’t solve Marcia mess
Two senior attorneys are expressing different views as to whether legislative changes is the solution to solve the issue regarding the 53 part-heard matters left hanging after the resignation of former...
View ArticleLove triangle link to attempted murder
Eyewitnesses to the fiery attempted murder and suicide at Eighth Street, Arouca, said yesterday that the victim and attacker never showed any signs of a failing relationship.Speaking with Guardian...
View ArticleSporTT sends 8 managers on leave
WALTER ALIBEY & ROSEMARIE SANTEight senior managers of the Sports Company of T&T (SporTT) were yesterday sent on 45 days administrative leave pending the completion of a forensic audit...
View ArticleBulgarians in card skimming racket to be sentenced today
Two of four Bulgarian nationals charged with a combined total of six card skimming offences pleaded guilty to four of the offences and will be sentenced today.Daniel Nedelchev and Emil Mihalev...
View ArticleMatt to discuss police raid on ex-journalist
President of the Media Association of T&T (MATT) Vernon Ramesar says the organisation is expected to meet this weekend to discuss how the Data Protection Act can affect the police investigation...
View ArticleJudicial gag order
The judiciary has moved to seal all the documents involved in the legal action filed by former chief magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar against Chief Justice Ivor Archie, the Judicial and Legal Services...
View ArticleAG: Smith must address Shanghai donation claim
Although it was Sports Minister Darryl Smith who prompted the forensic audit into the Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SporTT), when he returns home from China he himself will face some...
View ArticleCabo Star makes Tobago trial run today
The Cabo Star cargo vessel will be sailing off on a trial sailing to Tobago today and will officially begin operations servicing the sea bridge between T&T by Monday.This was disclosed by Minister...
View ArticleMan found dead on highway
An unidentified man was found with his head bashed in along the westbound lane of the Audrey Jeffers Highway yesterday morning.According to police, the man, believed to be in his late 40s, was found...
View ArticleJudge grants part of $ to fight against violence
Fed up of repeatedly ordering the State to pay compensation to the victims of abusive prisons officers, a High Court Judge has made an innovative proposal for the reduction of prison...
View ArticleBulgarians in card scam fined $90,000
Four Bulgarians who pleaded guilty to card skimming charges were ordered to pay over $90,000 yesterday or face up to three years in prison.Daniel Nedelchev and Emil Mihalev, both 25, who are charged...
View ArticleState to appeal liquidation ruling
The Government is planning to appeal the decision of a High Court judge to reject its application for the appointment of two provisional liquidators for CL Financial (CLF).Sources close to the state’s...
View ArticleArmy admits grave error
Ex-CDF: I’m not satisfied with response Gail Alexander “It didn’t meet my expectations.” That was the disappointed view of former chief of defence staff Kenrick Maharaj yesterday, after the T&T...
View ArticlePOA cries foul
Four days before the second anniversary of the July 25, 2015, prison break which left three dead and traumatised citi?zens, the Prisons Officers’ Association (POA) is accusing those in charge of the...
View ArticleIncrease in Trinis applying to teach English in Japan
There has been an “unprecedented increase in the number of applicants” from T&T to go to Japan to teach English.The announcement was made by the Japanese Ambassador in Port-of-Spain, Mitsuhiko...
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