Households can expect to spend $300 more a week
As supermarkets across the country prepare to implement the reduced rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) from 15 per cent to 12.5 per cent which takes effect on February 1, consumers falling into the lower...
View ArticleFour cops quizzed in robbery report
Four police officers were arrested by officers of the Professional Standards Bureau on Sunday night.Senior officers yesterday confirmed the officers who are assigned to the Morvant Police Station were...
View ArticlePublic warned: Watch out for fake $50 bills
Members of the public are asked to be on the lookout for counterfeit $50 bills.A video circulating on social media yesterday noted the differences among the first publication of the $50 bill, the...
View ArticleRamesh: Sturge had no legal right to seek help from US
Opposition Senator Wayne Sturge had no legal right to request that the United States Government investigate chairman of the Urban Development Corporation of T&T (Udecott) Noel Garcia.This was the...
View ArticleHouseholds can expect to spend $300 more a week
As supermarkets across the country prepare to implement the reduced rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) from 15 per cent to 12.5 per cent which takes effect on February 1, consumers falling into the lower...
View ArticleCabinet approves new rules for picking top cops
Under the new process for the appointment of a commissioner of police and deputy commissioner the Police Service Commission will have to contract a local firm under the Central Tenders Board Act to...
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Dillon denies murder spike
National Security Minister Edmund Dillon says there is no spike in the murder rate in this country. He said so in response to a question on the Order Paper from Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar...
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Prisoner escapes after three-year sentence
After being sentenced to three years in jail for armed robbery, twin brothers Roston and Russel Thomas tried to make a dash for freedom from the San Fernando Fourth Magistrates’ Court yesterday....
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Fire reignites at WASA
Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs Stuart Young says files of interest were removed from WASA’s St Joseph office at the weekend but they were retrieved by the...
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Mother of man shot by cops: My son was murdered
Relatives of Stephan “Swell Teeth” St Louis yesterday admitted the 25-year-old father of four “lived the life” but was on Sunday murdered by men who vowed to uphold the law.Speaking with the media at...
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Baptism of fire for new LATT board
The installation of the Christopher John Williams-led board of Lake Asphalt (1978) Ltd (LATT) was greeted with hot protest by asphalt workers yesterday.As the newly-installed chairman was outlining his...
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PM: Aim is consumer power
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said each consumer in T&T had the power to choose what they placed in their food baskets. He was responding to questions about the food items removed from the...
View Article6 cops on ID parades after Central robberies
Officers of the Professional Standards Bureau were up to late yesterday holding identification parades in connection with a spate of robberies in central Trinidad.Six of these were police officers...
View ArticleMan hounded and killed in Maracas
Jason Thomas, who fled to the hills of Maracas Valley, St Joseph, was hounded by those seeking to end his life yesterday morning and was killed.The body of the 27-year-old man from Second Caledonia,...
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Bakr in court on summons charge
Attorneys representing the commission of enquiry (COE) into the 1990 attempted coup yesterday began prosecuting Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr for refusing to answer its summons to testify...
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I’m not firing her
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says Marlene Mc Donald will not be fired as Housing Minister.He made the comment yesterday as he defended the latest call from Fixin’ T&T to remove her from his...
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Rowley during debate on Finance Bill: $400,000 in alcohol at PM’s residence
Alcohol valued at more than $400,000 have been discovered at the official residence of the Prime Minister, St Ann’s.This was revealed by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley during his contribution to the...
View Article$250,000 bail for prisons officer on theft charge
Prisons officer Roger Miguel pleaded not guilty and was granted $250,000 bail yesterday when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Indrani Cendeno in the Arima First Court charged with the removal of a...
View ArticleImbert eases fears on return of Property Tax
Property owners can breathe a sigh of relief as they would not have to worry about paying exorbitant taxes.This assurance was given by the Minister of Finance Colm Imbert.However, despite the...
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Two houses, vehicles go up in smoke
When fire broke out in Esperance Village, south Trinidad, yesterday all Lisa Narine could do was grab her three-year-old son, Avinash, and join her other two children in the road and watch their home...
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