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Parents could be source of students’ bad behaviour too, says mental expert
Education Minister Anthony Garcia may not have considered the parenting of the aggressors involved in the violence at the Siparia West Secondary School before labelling the acts as ‘criminal.”This was...
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Watch those calypso lyrics
"What's Wrong With The Song? — a Portrayal of Men and Women in Calypso."That's the theme of a gender analysis exercise which Government will undertake with the Trinidad Unified Calypsonians...
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Intervene earlier to protect our girls
As T&T joined the international community in recognising the International Day of the Girl Child, advocate Hazel Brown said violence and abuse and the lack of initiatives remain two of the biggest...
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People’s lives now at stake
Commissioner of Prisons Williams Alexander will be actively engaging in talks with acting Commissioner Stephen Williams on the issue of arming off-duty prisons officers.He made the comment yesterday...
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Fired Port boss told to stay quiet by lawyers
Dismissed acting Port Authority CEO/GM Charmaine Lewis is said to be consulting her attorney on her next move.Lewis was unavailable yesterday as calls to her mobile phone went unanswered. But sources...
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PBR closed off as police, gunmen trade bullets
Gunmen who shot at a man driving along the Priority Bus Route (PBR), Beetham Gardens ended up in a shootout with police yesterday.According to police, Colin Guy, 23, originally from Beetham Gardens,...
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Cops identify trio killed after Central robbery
The mother of one of three men killed by police on Tuesday in Central Trinidad said he was a hardened young man and blamed his death on his bad choices and the friends he kept.Speaking with the media...
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Kidnapped Venezuelan national rescued in Carapo
A Venezuelan national who was kidnapped at a bar in Curepe last Saturday was rescued by police yesterday in Carapo .A $100,000 ransom was demanded for him but none was paid.According to a police,...
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Trinis who fled Isis now in Iraqi detention camps
The Trinidadians who the Human Rights Watchgroup discovered in an Iraqi detention camp last month comprised a family of two sisters and their children, plus their mother and father, according to HRW’s...
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Kamla giving casino workers Senate voice
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday called on members of various trade unions to let their voices be heard and to speak for themselves as they continued their protest in front Parliament...
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Supervisor takes over
Education Minister Anthony Garcia is denying any disciplinary action has been taken against Siparia West Secondary School principal Sookoo Sonnylal, following the circulation of a video online in a...
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NLCB Board gets $40,000 whisky gift—Moonilal
The National Lotteries Control Board spent $40,000 on Johnnie Walker Black whisky as gifts for NLCB Board members and also paid $1,000 for a taxi to transport a Tobago director to the Lara Stadium, UNC...
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Creativity must be givenparity of place in education
We live in the Age of Creativity. Children who entered school for the first time in September 2017 may retire around 2067. That future of work eludes us and we accept that the curriculum we enact today...
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Strike Squad player Jones says no revenge over 1989 World Cup loss:VICTORY...
kalifa.clyne@guardian.co.ttWhen the USA lost to T&T, disqualifying themselves from the World Cup competition last week, many T&T nationals were celebrating.Despite having T&T’s own World...
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Bridgemans still waiting on Port Authority
The vice president of Bridgemans Services group Andrew Purdey says they have heard “zero” from the Port Authority on the evaluation of tenders for a passenger ferry for the inter-island sea...
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Trinis tell of stress with Isis
Members of a Trinidadian family who recently surrendered to Iraqi authorities along with Islamic State (Isis) fighters have spoken of “intense circumstances “including suffering repeated air strikes,...
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PM gets 700-page report from Police Audit Committee
The Police Manpower Audit Committee, headed by criminologist and former chairman of the Police Service Commission Prof Ramesh Deosaran, will present a 700-page report to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley...
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‘My husband, the gambling addict’
Mary and John have been married for 19 years and have two teenage daughters together. Mary, who says she still loves John, however, is now in the process of getting a divorce from him. She says she...
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Govt protecting gamblers from bad bet
In an attempt to protect "problem gamblers" from themselves, the Government has proposed the creation of a "self-exclusion programme" where any listed person who is found inside a gambling facility can...
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Man in alleged text conspiracy with AG
Process server Mark Adams—who admits to being anti-PNM, and who has made coersion allegations against Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi—says he does not sell out his friends. Adams is the alleged...
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