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NGO to educate T&T on human trafficking
In the light of recent reports of human trafficking, including that of children in T&T, the non-governmental organisation (NGO) the Children’s Ark has partnered with the Victim and Witness Support...
View ArticleLaw lords asked to respect local judges
The Privy Council has been asked to respect the decision of local judges to strike down a novel constitutional challenge over the repeal of Section 34 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable...
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Psychologists offer MPs help
There is a need to review and discuss the Parliament Standing Orders in order to avoid the abusive language and slurs of the past few weeks.This was the view expressed by social activist Hazel Brown...
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Nurse murdered afterleaving baby’s wake
RALPH BANWARIEIn a twisted series of events that unfolded in the Sangre Grande area last weekend, a 62-year-old retired nurse was killed after returning home from the wake of an 11-month old baby, who...
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After swine flu death in South: Cover-up, say relatives
T&T recorded its fourth confirmed death from the highly contagious H1N1 Influenza (swine flu), which accounted for over 14,000 deaths worldwide in 2009. According to a copy of a death certificate...
View ArticleMentally ill man killed in front of his mother
Yesterday morning, when most people were either at work or on their way, two gunmen in Laventille took the opportunity to murder an unarmed, mentally challenged man in front his mother.According to...
View ArticleQuestions for Dillon in Senate on phone tapping
Independent Senator Hugh Roach has called on National Security Minister Edmund Dillon to clear the air on whether citizens’ phone are being “tapped” in T&T following concerns about this. “We need...
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After murder of British couple, London sees backlash
Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Orville London said Tobago homicide officers currently have some encouraging and promising leads with respect to the killing of British lawyer...
View ArticleUK puts Tobago in its ‘bad books’
The killing of attorney Richard Wheeler and his wife, Grace, at their home in Tobago will be listed in the UK's travel advisory to T&T, says British High Commissioner to T&T, Tim Stew,...
View Article‘Senior colleagues concerned’, AG’s lawyer gets State brief
Theresa Hadad, the private attorney of Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi, has received a lucrative state legal brief. The disclosure was made in the Senate yesterday afternoon by Opposition Senator Wayne...
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Media blocked from anti-bullying talks
School officials yesterday blocked media workers from covering the anti-bullying launch initiated by Princes Town MP Barry Padarath at the Iere Village Government Primary School. Padarath, who...
View ArticlePrivy Council reserves judgment in Section 34 repeal
The Privy Council has reserved its judgment on whether the repeal of Section 34 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Offences) Act was unconstitutional.Postponing the court’s decision to a date...
View ArticleTransport boss at standards programme: Motorists need to change
The culture of the motoring public in T&T is not changing, despite the increasing number of road deaths. And according to Transport Commissioner Wayne Richards, this inability to change is a “bad...
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Carmona hails ex-prosecutor
President Anthony Carmona joined hundreds of mourners yesterday in bidding farwell to his former colleague, retired deputy Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Clyde Seepersad, remembering him as an...
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Do not seek vigilante justice for child abuser
Head of the Child Protection Unit (CPU) Superintendent Adeline St Louis-Pesnell is calling on the public not to seek vigilante justice in apprehending the 33-year-old man videotaped abusing a...
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Cops arrive in nick of time
KEVON FELMINE & KALIFA CLYNEPublic outrage over the abuse of a toddler in an online video eventually helped police arrest a 32-year-old suspect and his 21-year-old Jamaican common-law-wife. The...
View ArticleThree-month girl dies at day care
Another mother is calling for justice after her baby died at a day care centre in Diego Martin. Three-month-old baby, Anastacia Phillip, was the second baby to have died in the past six days while in...
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3 held in Tobago double murders
Homicide detectives have held three people, among them a woman, in connection with the killing of British lawyer Richard Wheeler and his Trinidadian wife Grace. The suspects are in their 20s.The...
View ArticleEx-envoy hits cops on killings
Former UK High Commissioner to T&T Arthur Snell took to social media to knock personally the Police Service regarding the apparent lack of action in solving crimes against foreign nationals in...
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It’s just political mischief
PNM backlash! That’s the view of Opposition UNC Senator Wayne Sturge after a picture of himself with a jersey up, pants open and showing off his Superman briefs was circulated in the public domain...
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