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$4m award for quarry owner
The State has been ordered to pay over $4 million in compensation to a Valencia quarry operator whose fleet of vehicles were impounded for almost three years after he was cleared by police on suspicion...
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It’s a yoke around our necks
Whether the continuing imposition of the death penalty which has not been carried out since 1999 continues to be a deterrent to capital offences was argued by Justice Frank Seepersad as he made a case...
View ArticleGuyanese national killed in El Socorro
Police are investigating the murder of a Guyanese national whose body was found in El Socorro, yesterday.According to a police report, at about 2 pm, Andrew Garraway, believed to be in his early 40s,...
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Alleyne to pay $600,000 to Sammy for defamation
Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne has been ordered to pay businessman Shaun Sammy over $600,000 in compensation for defamation. Sammy received the award from High Court Master Marissa Robertson yesterday...
View ArticlePublish new law for CoP appointment—Deosaran
A former head of the Police Service Commission (PSC) Ramesh Deosaran wants the Government to make public the cabinet note which has changed the rules for appointment of a commissioner of...
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Mother absent from toddler’s funeral
Baby Khristha Knutt’s mother, Tiffany Rawlins, was released from police custody on Thursday night, but did not attend her daughter’s funeral yesterday.She was not mentioned except during angry...
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June 2016 hearing for election petitions
A High Court Judge has urged attorneys for the country’s two main political parties to work together to expedite the hearing of six election petitions challenging the result of the September 7 general...
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Rowley: Jwala creating his own problems
Support from the Opposition and an online petition may not be enough to keep Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran in office.In a stinging statement yesterday, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said that...
View ArticleCost guard charged with baby’s shock death
A 33-year-old able-bodied seaman with the T&T Coast Guard has been charged with the death of 23-month-old Kristha Knutt. Emile Garraway, of Erica Street, Rock City, Laventille, was charged on...
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Impoverished boys study under street lamp
Under a dim street light at Grass Trace, Flanagin, brothers Mark Halbal, 14, and Aaron, 11, study at nights.It’s not an ideal place for the boys to beat their books, but for their poverty-stricken...
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Recognise pan tuners—Diaz
Pan Trinbago’s president Keith Diaz says pan tuners should be recognised as natural treasures and should be held in the same regard as Michelangelo and Michel-Jean Cazabon.He was speaking during his...
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Million-dollar toy drive scrapped
The nationwide million-dollar Christmas toy drive—a brainchild of former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is no more. Persad-Bissessar will only be focusing on her Siparia constituency this...
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Even after PP spends $1.6 to $2bn: School violence goes viral
Thirty-one months after losing her 14-year-old son Renaldo Dixon to school violence, Camille Taitt is still trying to come to terms with his death. Taitt, 34, admitted that Renaldo’s passing will...
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King warns against Govt’s plans: Recipe for eating up more foreign exchange
Economist Mary King says the Government intends to spend an unprecedented TT$63.1 billion and none of it looks like it is designed to boost the country’s exports or reduce its import bill. Instead,...
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MSJ head: Rambarran playing ‘populist’
Leader of the Movement for Social Justice David Abdulah is calling for Governor of the Central Bank Jwala Rambarran to go. Abdulah made the call at a press conference at the party’s St Joseph Village,...
View ArticleState ‘advanced’ towards action
The Government is remaining tight-lipped on its next move concerning Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran and whether it can continue to work with him following Prime Minister Keith Rowley’s stinging...
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Car plunges into river
A Chaguanas man died yesterday after the car in which he was an occupant ran off the Uriah Butler Highway and crashed into the cable barrier at the Guayamare River. Police identified him as Clyde...
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Brothers slam into pickup on M2 Ring Rd
Hansraj Roopnarine, 47, of Endeavour, Chaguanas, died on the spot yesterday when the Mitsubishi Lancer, driven by his brother, Roland Roopnarine, slammed into a pickup truck on the M2 Ring Road in...
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Former PNM finance minister: Declare reason to fire Jwala
The Government must declare its reasons if it wants to fire the Central Bank Governor says former finance minister Conrad Enill. He added that the governor and the Government cannot be at loggerheads...
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Two more murders, toll reaches 396
A few footsteps away from where Roger Romaine was shot dead in May, the man accused by relatives of killing him was shot dead yesterday morning. Micheal Matthews, 57, of Fazal Avenue, Penal, was gunned...
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