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Too many school dropouts — Antoine
D’Abadie/O'meara MP Ancil Antoine yesterday appealed to principals and teachers to take responsibility for their students, as too many students are dropping out of the secondary school system.Antoine...
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Renegotiate US$5,000 daily ferry rate —Suruj
The Government should renegotiate the US$5,000 daily rate for the Tobago ferry because of T&T's serious financial straits — and especially if $28 million has to be spent to dredge the Port to...
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Burglars hit hardware
Police are working on the theory that the burglars who broke into the Trincity branch of Bhagwansingh's Hardware may have been stolen items to commit other planned burglaries.According to police...
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Police, fire hotlines disabled
The emergency numbers for both the Police and Fire Services were knocked out yesterday.Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) yesterday said a technical difficulty led to the...
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Maxi Taxi Association to challenge band changes
The Government will need to bring legislative changes to the Maxi Taxi Act if it wants to remove restrictions on the ownership of banded maxi taxis allowing owners to buy and band their maxi taxis and...
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Judge orders releaseof Cameroon national
A High Court Judge has ordered the conditional release of a man from Cameroon, who has been detained at the Immigration Detention Centre in Aripo since May, last year.Delivering a 14-page judgment in...
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HDC tenants paying to live in squalor
Golda Lee-BruceResidents of Marcano Quarry Lands HDC apartments, in East Port-of-Spain, are paying to live in squalor. Since a fire destroyed parts of the building ten years ago, conditions have gone...
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Rats, faulty wires keep Malick Sec closed
Jensen La VendeMembers of the Malick Secondary Parents/Teachers Association (PTA) yesterday called on the Ministry of Education to address health and safety concerns plaguing the school for the past...
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Acting PATT CEO back from vacation
Port Authority of T&T acting chief executive officer/general manager Charmaine Lewis returned to work yesterday and the computer seized when she was abroad on vacation was returned to the office...
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Squatters can now buy land
A number of people holding Certificates of Comfort for squatter sites developed by the Land Settlements Agency (LSA) will now be invited to buy the land at a premium of 25 per cent of its market...
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New food card to clean system
A new food (debit) card will be in effect from the first quarter of 2018 with the assessment of all such recipients to ensure that only those "truly eligible" for food assistance will receive the new...
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Stay true to your oath—Hinds
Prisons officers need to be more professional and ethical, says PNM's Fitzgerald Hinds, Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General.Hinds gave the advice yesterday in Parliament during 2018 Budget...
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Game changer coming in crime fight —Dillon
Government's new National Crime Prevention Plan (NCCP) will involve communities conveying information on crime to local government councils and the Tobago House of Assembly with further assistance from...
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Hands off Columbus statue in Moruga
Eric Lewis is a descendent of this country's First Peoples. It is an ancestry that he is proud of.Lewis is also the person who sculpted the monument in Moruga of the man blamed for the genocide of this...
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Slow mental recovery for devastated Dominicans
The leader of the T&T trauma specialist team in Dominica Wendell de Leon says his team has encountered a deep sense of “hopelessness,” “trauma,” “despair” and “loss” in the past two weeks...
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Isis bombshell in budget debate
Trinidadian nationals are among women and children from 12 territories who surrendered with Islamic State (Isis) fighters to Iraqi authorities in late August, a recent Human Rights Watch report has...
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Lewis weighs legal options
Charmaine Lewis will be filing a legal challenge against the Port Authority of T&T for she says is her “wrongful dismissal” as acting CEO/GM, admitting she was “shocked” at the move.The dismissal...
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JSC, Devant concerned at Lewis firing
Members of the Joint Select Committee (JSC) investigating procurement issues on the sea bridge told the T&T Guardian yesterday they were “very concerned” about the dismissal of acting Port CEO/GM...
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3 bandits killed by cops after robbing business
Three men who robbed a woodwork shop in Cunupia were all shot and killed by responding police officers last evening.Details were still sketchy up to press time, but the three men, who were taken to the...
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Staff wary as UTT faces cuts
A major downsizing exercise hovers over the University of T&T (UTT), with the Business Development and Marketing Unit (BDMU) possibly facing disbandment.The T&T Guardian understands staff from...
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