100 kmph speed limit now official
The speed limit along four major highways was officially changed to 100 kilometres per hour yesterday.The change was effected after President Anthony Carmona assented to the Motor Vehicles and Road...
View ArticleRoodal withdraws scandalous claim against Rowley
Oropouche East MP Dr. Roodal Moonilal made a scandalous allegation against Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and the owner of A&V Oil and Gas Hanif Baksh in Parliament last evening. However, moments...
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kevon.felmine@guardian.co.ttFor most people, being shot is a traumatic experience that lingers. But despite lying on a hospital bed with a gunshot wound to his abdomen after confronting a bandit the...
View ArticleSlain teen bandit promised mom to change
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.ttWhile many see the death of 15-year-old Isaac Simmons as poetic justice for robbing the home of a Republic Bank manager on Thursday, his short life has been riddled with bad...
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Karina Warrick-John and Aarti Lutchmesingh have been named the recipients of the Association of Female Executives of T&T (Afett) Women’s Development Fund (WDF) Bursary Award for the academic year...
View ArticleParliament 2017 ends with appeal for the poor
Help poor parents! The 2017 year of Parliament ended last Friday with an appeal from UNC MP Ramona Ramdial for Government to ease the burden on poor parents by exempting baby and child care products...
View ArticleThree to be charged for water protest in Maloney
Three people are to be charged with obstructing the free flow of traffic following a protest along the east-bound lane of the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway in Maloney yesterday, the Police Service has...
View ArticleVerizon Wireless ends long wait for iPhone fans
NEW YORK—Frustrated Verizon Wireless consumers soon will get their hands on Apple Inc’s iPhone after waiting three-and-a-half years. The top US wireless operator will begin selling a version of the...
View ArticleEarly Christmas gift for 25 cataract patients
Rhondor DowlatCataract surgeries valued over $250,000 will be done free tomorrow for 25 patients who are in dire need and deemed to be “financially constrained”.This early Christmas gift is sponsored...
View ArticlePoS real estate takes a nosediveas businesses leave the city
CHARLES KONG SOOThe traffic challenges and overpopulation in the central business district of Port-of-Spain have driven organizations, local and international, to developing commercial hubs/districts...
View ArticleToddler left without parents after murder/suicide in
While police investigating the murder of Samantha Isaac were yesterday were closing in on her killer they heard a gunshot coming from his home.Around 5.30 am, Isaacs, 26, of L'anse Mitan, Carenage, was...
View ArticleRowley: Govt working hard to bring peace, prosperity to T&T
Joel Julien"Safety and prosperity". These are the two things that Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley wishes for the country for Christmas.And Rowley said his Government was working "very hard" to make...
View ArticleThird suspect in shooting of PC Ram on the run
SASCHA WILSON The third suspect in the shooting of PC Anand Ram in Marabella has been identified. However, up to late yesterday he was still being hunted by police.Ram, 27, remained warded at the San...
View ArticlePM to Moonilal: Take it outside
Joel JulienPrime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has challenged Opposition MP Dr Roodal Moonilal, who he described as a "corkscrew and a creep", to come outside the Parliament and repeat the scandalous claims...
View ArticleFour charged in $5.5m airport heist
Almost two weeks after a daring $5.5 million robbery at the Piarco International Airport, four people, including a woman, are expected to appear in court today on charges connected to the incident. The...
View ArticleHope fades for Allison
With Christmas just a week away, the sliver of happiness Allison Dick felt at the prospect of her six children and grandchild not spending the holidays under a staircase of an abandoned building is...
View ArticleMan arrested
A 48-year-old man was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for heckling women on the streets of Sangre Grande.He was one of several people arrested during an anti-crime exercise in the eastern...
View Article100 kmph limit not for all
Not so fast!The warning is to maxi taxi operators, Public Transport Service Corporation bus drivers and vehicles that are designed to carry more than ten passengers.The speed limit on the nation’s...
View ArticlePolice nab trio after holdup
Quick response by police officers led to the arrest of three bandits and recovery of cash stolen from a bar at Manzanilla yesterday. The suspects are expected to appear before a Sangre Grande...
View ArticleWoman freed of twins drowning
A 62-year-old mother of five walked out the Sangre Grande Magistrate’s Court a free woman on Friday after 12 years and six months awaiting trial.Ingrid Durity, of Valencia, who was jointly charged with...
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