36 homeless after Sea Lots fire
Some 36 people are now homeless after a fire destroyed over a dozen homes in Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain, on Tuesday night.When the T&T Guardian visited the area yesterday, the residents called for...
View ArticlePolice corporal charged with assaulting Guardian photographer
Corporal Billy Ramsundar has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm against Guardian photographer Kristian De Silva, a police statement said Wednesday.He is also charged with...
View ArticleRape accused walks free
More than a year after he was charged with raping a 12-year-old relative, a Penal man was freed by a Siparia Magistrate.The 46-year-old man walked out of the Siparia Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday...
View ArticleI’m not usingMonday forum to campaign— Kamla
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar didn’t use UNC’s Monday Night Forum to campaign for the leadership since her own campaign was to be launched last night (Thur) in Princes Town, UNC chairman...
View Article1,700 graduate at UTT
A total of 1700 students graduated between Wednesday and yesterday at the UTT’s O’Meara Campus in Arima.Speaking at graduation ceremony on Wednesday, chairman of the Board of Governors of UTT Professor...
View ArticleZumba instructor leads domestic abuse campaign
More than 300 people are expected to attend a two-part seminar to raise awareness of domestic abuse in T&T and provide information to resources and solutions available to victims. The event takes...
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and CAMILLE CLARKEAt least 40 per cent of Customs and Excise Division (CED) workers heeded the call by Public Services Association president Watson Duke to stay away from work yesterday, the first day...
View ArticlePSA members protest against own boss
In an unprecedented move yesterday, the Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU) staged a noisy protest against Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke for ill-treating 18...
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Just a week after five senior Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago employees were dismissed, two directors have also been sent home. They were also told to return company phones, computers and all...
View ArticleRecruitmentopens for ChiefMagistrate post
The Director of Personnel Administration is in the process of recruiting a new Chief Magistrate.The advertisement for the position was contained in a memorandum circulated to the permanent secretaries...
View Article$.8m bail for cop charged in photographer assault case
A 47-year-old police corporal will appear before a Siparia magistrate today charged with assaulting Guardian Media photographer Kristian De Silva and damaging De Silva’s Canon camera.Billy Ramsundar...
View ArticleMatelot gets water ambulance
A water ambulance that was built after the only road leading into Matelot was blocked by landslides and fallen trees, was officially handed over to the Sangre Grande Regional Corporation yesterday.The...
View ArticleMake provisions for addicts
Government should have made provisions so that taxation on the gaming industry could be used to establish a gambling anonymous centre.This was the view shared on Friday night by MP for...
View ArticlePTSC launches Christmas shuttle service in South
With Christmas shoppers in south Trinidad facing the annual $20-$50 fare for a four-kilometre trip to the Gulf City Mall or the risk of being robbed by fake taxi drivers, the Public Transportation...
View ArticleAbdulah retains position as MSJ head
David Abdulah retains his position as political leader of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) in the party's nominations for elections of national executive (2017-2020) held on Friday.The entire team...
View ArticleActivist on sixth day of hunger strike
Community activist Garth Christopher, who received a month's notice to vacate the North West Regional Health Authority's (NWRHA) premises on Dos Santos Street, Morvant, was on the sixth day of his...
View ArticleMitchell: Vandalised houses costing Govt millions
Housing and Urban Development Minister Randall Mitchell says the former People's Partnership government delayed the distribution of hundreds of housing units in order to facilitate its "100 homes per...
View Article‘A slice of Trinidad and Tobago's history
Robert Clarke, the author of the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian’s “A Century of Excellence”, speaks about the labour of love in documenting the newspaper's 100-year milestone. The book, written by...
View ArticleT&T food bill still high
This country imported $32.7 billion in food—mainly fruits and vegetables, cereals, dairy and meat—between 2011 and 2016.The high food import bill, which has been identified as a problem by successive...
View ArticleInvestigate CEC for Manzanilla high
Former transport minister Devant Maharaj has written the Integrity Commission calling for an investigation into the process by which the Certificate of Environmental Clearance (CEC) for the Manzanilla...
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