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Bridgemans got poor rating from global firm—Mark
The financial standing of Canadian-based ferry service provider Bridgemans Services LP was yesterday described as disastrous.The comment was made by Joint Select Committee (JSC) member Wade Mark, as...
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PM will have many questions to answer
Joint Select Committee (JSC) member Wade Mark says the People’s National Movement Government had taken a decision to terminate the contract of the Super Fast Galicia since December 2015.He made the...
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Woman slain, daughter hurt in all-female brawl
A 44-year old woman and a 58-year-old man have been killed in separate incidents, carrying the murder toll to 332 for the year.In the most recent case, police reports are that Tabatha Richards died...
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Man, 51, killed in crash, cops hunt driver who fled scene
A grandfather who had just dropped one of his grandchildren to school on Monday was killed instantly when the van he was in slammed into a concrete poll.Police are now searching for a friend of...
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Singh stabbed, strangled with pajamas, autopsy
Seventy-six-year-old Ramdevi Singh was stabbed once in the back of the neck, a wound which paralysed her before her killer/s used her pajama pants to strangle the remaining life out of her.Speaking...
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We needed more time to acquire ferry vessels
The Port Authority of T&T board would have preferred more time to obtain ferry vessels instead of the recent 10-day time-frame, which was too “tight,” PATT board chairman Alison Lewis has...
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Sahadeo wants another JSC go
A public war of words has developed between former Port Authority of T&T chairman Christine Sahadeo and current acting Port CEO Charmaine Lewis following their appearances during Joint Select...
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Bring on ghost probe
Bring on the probe.This was the response from some members of the Association of School Maxi Transport Concessionaires of T&T who protested, for a second day, outside the Education Ministry on St...
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Teachers walk off the job at three schools
Teachers walked off the job at two secondary schools and a primary school in South Trinidad on the second day of school yesterday, because electrical and air-conditioning problems.This was confirmed by...
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$18m received for no service
Joint Select Committee member Franklin Khan yesterday admitted that the agent for the Super Fast Galicia, Inter-continental Shipping Ltd, was paid $18 million by the former People’s Partnership...
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Mason jailed for having gun
A 19-year-old mason who chose not to disclose what he was doing with a loaded revolver in his possession will spend the next 18 months doing hard labour in prison. Jerrel Alexis, of Pleasantville,...
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Senator: Economies racking up huge debt bills
Lack of sustainable economic plans and parliamentary autonomy were two key topics which were brought to the fore during yesterday’s ParlAmericas workshop on Fiscal Transparency Practices and a...
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Teen shot dead in Arouca
Teenager Mitchelle Francis was shot twice in the head at close range on Tuesday night. One of the bullets severed his upper spinal cord.According to pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov, 17-year-old...
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Activist: Child marriages still legal in T&T
Until the amended Marriage Act is proclaimed, people under the age of 18 can get married and such marriages will be considered legal, child rights activist Hazel Brown said yesterday.She was commenting...
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THA rep absent from JSC session
Inter-island Truckers and Traders Association president Horace Amede yesterday called for the one-year contract of the Cabo Star to be scrapped, as the vessel is creating severe headache for his...
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Hoteliers beg suppliers for payment plans
Tobago hoteliers are making a case for compensation over the losses they have suffered as a result of the sea bridge crisis.Appearing before the Joint Select Committee of Parliament yesterday, Tobago...
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Assemblyman: Board, Sinanan should be fired
Minority member of the Tobago House of Assembly Farley Augustine wants the Port Authority of T&T board fired and “perhaps if it were my decision to make I will drop the board in the Bocas and ask...
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Northern Caribbean islands feel Irma’s wrath
ST JOHN’S, Antigua—Monster Hurricane Irma, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded over the Atlantic Ocean, is still pummelling parts of the northern Caribbean with its Category 5 winds and heavy...
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Cops seize 2,000 illegal guns in 36 months
More than 2,000 illegal firearms, mostly pistols and revolvers and approximately 37,000 rounds of assorted ammunition have been recovered by the police in the past 36 months.Most of the illegal guns...
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New technology coming to safeguard prisons
New Prisons Commissioner William Alexander says the Prison Service will be updating the technology used to safeguard the prisons in wake of recent posting of videos on social media by...
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