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New social safety net plan coming
A National Social Mitigation Plan has been developed to assist retrenched workers among others during the current economic downturn.How much this measure will cost taxpayers has not yet been...
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5 months jail for bribe offer
The Chinese national who offered a $2,000 bribe to a police officer to to turn a blind eye to her relative’s illegal status in the country has been jailed for five months.Lu Wuying, 34, who was...
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Water cut off at Coromandel
One day after an area along Southern Main Road, at Coromandel Village caved in cutting off vehicular traffic, about 500 residents are now without a supply of water. Cedros councillor Shankar...
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Gate will be accessible to needy—Garcia
Government is maintaining that the Government Assisted Tuition Expenses (Gate) funding will be made available to those most in need. This as Education Minister Anthony Garcia shot back at former...
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‘Twister’ victims beg for help
An appeal has been made to the corporate community to lend a helping hand to the 22 families affected by a “twister” which tore through the community of Aripero on Thursday.“We are appealing to the...
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COP elections put off again
Nicole Dyer-Griffith has lost her bid to contest the election for the post of political leader of the Congress of the People with her candidacy having been deemed invalid.But she said she remains...
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Three shot at jobsite
Three construction workers remained warded in hospital last night after being attacked by gunmen at a construction site near the Besson Street Police Station in east Port-of-Spain.According to reports...
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Court freezes soldiers’ assets
The State has filed a lawsuit against two soldiers seeking to recoup the $1.5 million which they allegedly stole from the Defence Force in a recent payroll scam.In a press release yesterday evening,...
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CSEC results holding steady, says ministry
The Opposition United National Congress is assuring that it is “actively considering” pieces of legislation sent to it by acting Attorney General Stuart Young and will respond “in due course,” but said...
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Law gives you authority
President Anthony Carmona can, by law, make an intervention into the ongoing fiasco surrounding the procurement process used by the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (PATT) for the inter-island...
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Old politics crept in again
Former deputy leader and candidate for political leader in the upcoming Congress of the People (COP) elections Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan, says it is disappointing that the internal elections of the...
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Annisette needs to get facts correct—Sinanan
Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan says Seamen and Waterfront Workers’ Trade Union president Michael Annisette needs to get his facts correct before implicating him in the current sea bridge...
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Rambharat using trees in flood plan
Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat says trees should be seen as an asset to assist us in the hurricane and rainy seasons, as they can help reduce damage, soil erosion and flooding.He made the...
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Pensioner found dead
Police are investigating the discovery of the decomposing body of a pensioner who was found outside his Siparia home yesterday.Investigators said around 10.10 am, Dillon Green reported that he went to...
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Children’s Authority working with cops on child beating case
The Children’s Authority of T&T says it is working with police to investigate the brutal beating of a toddler, who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Wendy Fitzwilliam Paediatric...
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Taxi driver killed by ‘passenger’
PH taxi driver Stephen Nero, 43, was attacked and killed by a man posing as a passenger along Hamilton Siding Road, Wallerfield, on Friday night.According to police, Nero, of Denny Road, Valencia, was...
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Harvey heads through Caribbean
MEXICO CITY—Tropical Storm Harvey weakened into a depression as it moved through the Caribbean Sea yesterday on a projected course that would have it approaching Central America and the Yucatan...
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Prisons Association welcomes upgrade
The Prisons Officer’s Association has welcomed news that the facilities at the Golden Grove Remand Prison will be upgraded with an injection of $56.3 million.Gerard Gordon, the secretary of the...
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Lawyers challenge Cuban refugee’s 5-month detention
A Cuban refugee has threatened to sue the Immigration Division for his unlawful detention at the Immigration Detention Centre in Aripo since March.In a pre-action protocol letter sent to acting Chief...
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