SIS hires firm with close links to test water at Beetham
A private lab retained by Super Industrial Services Ltd (SISL) to conduct and approve water and soil testing on the billion-dollar Beetham Wastewater Recycling Project has close links to SIS.The Sunday...
View ArticlePrison system waiting to explode
Former justice minister Herbert Volney has issued a warning to the People’s Partnership Government that if they continue to keep prisoners like caged animals the prison system “will explode like a...
View ArticleTwo men killed in South crash
Despite fears that the driver they were assigned to work with drove too recklessly, lorrymen Ray Adams and Akkel Hallford still decided to go with him to deliver building material in Tableland.However,...
View ArticleBan Ki-moon to help lower tensions between Guyana, Venezuela
How has it been settling into your new position as president?Quite good. As you know, I am the leader of a six-party coalition and we hit the ground running. We expected to win and we were quite...
View ArticleTunapuna voters still undecided, confused
With the 2015 general election mere weeks away, all eyes are on the marginal seats especially Tunapuna which is expected to help determine whether the People’s Partnership (PP) retains power or the...
View ArticlePolice seeks first North Zone title tonight
Police is just one game away from lifting their first North Zone Basketball Commission title after defeating former zone champions Detour Shak Attack 84-74 on Thursday night in game-1 of the Big-Four...
View ArticleMom in pain after two sons accused of Dana’s murder
Bernadine Cummings is still trying to come to terms with the arrest of her two sons for the murder of senior counsel Dana Seetahal. Cummings’ two sons—Davoughn, 27, and Stephan, 33—along with nine...
View ArticleSancho launches campaign
United National Congress candidate for Toco/Sangre Grande Brent Sancho has promised constituents a football stadium estimated to cost between $30 m to $40 m, which Cabinet has already approved.Sancho...
View ArticleBetter off free?
Kevin BaldeosinghAre the descendants of Africans in the Caribbean better off than the descendants of Africans who remained on the continent?It might seem obvious that the Africans who were captured and...
View ArticleDaughter tells why she shot prison guard: ‘He was going to kill mom’
Mohini Ganase said yesterday that she shot and killed prison officer Robert Seecharan in self defence because she felt he was going to kill her mother Sherry-Ann Seecharan. She said Seecharan was in a...
View ArticleMoonilal sues over OAS claims: Jack may have no $$ to pay me
Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner has 14 days to apologise to Housing Minister Roodal Moonilal regarding statements the he made on a political platform at La Paille Village, Caroni, last month. The former...
View ArticleUNC continues ‘NoRowley’ campaign: Party mum on source of $$
United National Congress campaign manager Rodney Charles was elusive yesterday when asked how much money the party had so far spent on the “NoRowley” election campaign, saying the party will only do so...
View ArticleClaxton Bay residents seek action after dump fire
Claxton Bay residents are now calling for proper recycling practices to be implemented at the Forres Park dump, in the wake of a fire that burned through most of Saturday and left the area covered in...
View ArticleOne of a Kind
My name is Tracy Assing and I’m the only Amerindian in Town. I only have one brother but I think of myself as coming from a large family in Arima. Because my extended family has always had a huge...
View ArticleUTT fires animation pioneer
Local animation pioneer Camille Selvon-Abrahams has vowed to sue the University of T&T after she was summarily fired and escorted by security off the John Donaldson campus on Friday....
View ArticleA quick guide to online posting
We now live in an instant society where every detail of our lives is shared and posted to 'friends' and followers. But what are the legal ramifications for posting on social media? Here are some quick...
View ArticleUse the Golden Key
Some mornings ago, after completing my walk, I struck up a conversation with Linda B, one of a group of early morning walkers. In the course of our chat, Linda B began to tell me about something called...
View Article10 charges for prison escapee
Former prison escapee, Christopher “Monster” Selby appeared in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates Court today on 10 charges, including the murder of PC Sherman Maynard. Selby, 30, is the only surviving...
View ArticleMan shot in leg during robbery
A Claxton Bay man remains warded at hospital after he was shot in the leg by a bandit on Sunday morning. Police said Joseph Hendrickson, 55, of 12 Pico Avenue, St Margaret's was walking along the old...
View ArticleSeven more days to complete probe
Deputy Police Commissioner Glenn Hackett yesterday gave his investigators seven more days to complete the probe into a leaked Special Branch memo which claimed that the Prime Minister’s life was at...
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