Teen held after cops shot at
A 16-year-old boy is currently under police guard at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex after being arrested for shooting at police officers during an anti-crime exercise in the Enterprise...
View ArticleFour charged with robbing pharmacy
Four men have been charged with robbing a pharmacy in central Trinidad.The Police Service said Kurvin Gellineau, 30, of Isaac Street, Couva; Richard Adams, 21, of McBean Couva; Joel Charles, 18, of...
View Article‘I will not let you down’
T&T’s newly-appointed Commissioner of Police (CoP) Gary Griffith said yesterday there will be “less talk and more action” from him as he took over the reigns of the Police Service.One of his main...
View ArticlePolice Association eager to meet Gary
T&T Police Service Social and Welfare Association says it anticipates several outstanding issues affecting police officers would be addressed when it meets with the newly-appointed Commissioner of...
View ArticleChambers hopeful as new CoP installed
Newly-appointed Police Commissioner Gary Griffith will be under heavy scrutiny from the Arima Business Association (ABA) for at least the next three months.Speaking to the T&T Guardian yesterday,...
View ArticleHunt for serial arsonist
Residents of a San Fernando community are living in fear of a suspected serial arsonist whom they say is responsible for yesterday’s house fire in which a father and son were injured.Cecil Phillip, 85,...
View ArticleMinistry: No payment for marking SBAs
The Chief Personnel Officer (CPO) has instructed the Ministry of Education not to pay secondary school teachers for the marking of School-Based Assessments (SBA) papers, as this forms part of their...
View ArticleBest CSEC results in 10 years
The 2018 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and CAPE examination results have been the best this country has seen in the last decade.While this has been good news for Education Minister...
View ArticleCourier warns customers about sex toys imports
E-courier Web Source has advised its customers to think twice before purchasing sex toys online.In correspondence issued to its customers yesterday, the company claimed that the intimate devices fell...
View ArticleMother and daughter die in highway crash
Arrive Alive president Sharon Inglefield is urging victims of vehicular collisions on the highway to refrain from walking out onto the roadway when possible. She made the plea following the tragic...
View ArticleCops seek help to ID body found in Maracas
The Police Service is seeking the assistance of the public in identifying the body of a man which was found on Tuesday along the North Coast Road, Maracas.The body was that of a man, approximately 5...
View ArticleT&TEC: Caution when in floodwaters
The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) is reminding citizens to take the necessary safety precautions to protect their lives and properties.It said in light of recent heavy rains...
View ArticleParaplegic pleads for help to find a home
It takes Stacy Ann Parris, a 39-year-old paraplegic, at least two to three minutes to make her way down a very short flight of stairs to open the front gate to the severely dilapidated, colonial-...
View ArticlePM Rowley sorry for ‘sari skit’
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley last night unreservedly apologised to the Hindu community for a skit performed at the People’s National Movement (PNM) family day, saying the skit was disrespectful to...
View ArticleHarry considers legal action against PM, PNM
Suspended People’s National Movement (PNM) member Harry Ragoonanan is considering legal action against the PNM political party and possibly its leader Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley for trying to bring...
View ArticleHinds: Beetham miscreants causing flooding woes
Stolen equipment, threats, and demands for large sums of money from contractors are the reasons behind the continuous disruption in routine dredging of the two major rivers that run through the...
View ArticleRowley, Roget to meet Tuesday
Despite the war of words between Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget, the two are scheduled to meet this Tuesday to discuss the...
View ArticleKamla concerned but gives Griffith a ‘bligh’
Despite kicking him out of her Cabinet back in 2015, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she is giving newly appointed Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith a “bligh.”However, Persad-Bissessar...
View ArticleCharges against Hinds’ attackers could be laid soon
Charges could soon materialise against the handful of Beetham residents who created a “sideshow” involving their MP, Fitzgerald Hinds last Tuesday as he intends to fully cooperate with the ongoing...
View ArticleRising murder level a bugbear to T&T’s economy
The murder level in T&T continues to be a source of great concern to most of the population. At August 8, 2018, the murder level was 332 as compared to 296 people the same time last year.That is a...
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