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Fire razes Laventille hardware store
A Laventille businessman was left homeless after his home and hardware were reduced to ashes yesterday after fire gutted his business place.Ramesh Bachew, part owner of H Bachew Hardware, along the...
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Focus on reviving economy
Communications Minister Maxie Cuffie says the Government is not overly concerned about international reports on the state of the local economy.He said instead the focus would be on reviving the economy...
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Convicted terrorist dies in US prison
Convicted terrorist Kareem Ibrahim has died in a United States prison. Ibrahim, 70, reportedly lost his battle with cancer yesterday after serving a little over three years of his life sentence at the...
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Cops step up hunt for guns
Police intend to step up their efforts to recover illegal guns, the weapon of choice used to commit murders, and called for more to be done to stop them from reaching the shores. This after another...
View ArticleMan dies from head injuries after push
A Cedros man yesterday succumbed to head injuries he sustained during an altercation with another man last Friday. The T&T Guardian understands that Ramdath Ramchandar, 59, of Bonasse Village,...
View Article2 illegal guns, $6m in drugs seized in raids
Central Division officers on Tuesday seized more than $6 million worth of drugs, two guns and arrested six people during an anti-crime exercised in the division.According to police around 10 am,...
View ArticleSangre Grande man dies from swine flu
A 61-year-old man died at the Sangre Grande District Health Facility yesterday, making him the sixth victim of the H1N1 virus, since the first reported death last year. Jewan Maharaj died after...
View Article6 cops finally released from prison custody
Afters spending four nights in prison on remand, six police officers accused of a string of criminal offences have finally managed to secure their bail. Although the six officers, last assigned to the...
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New police Order no threat to PSC
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi says the independence of the Police Service Commission (PSC) was not under threat by a provision in a new police Order governing the appointment of a police commissioner...
View ArticleRowley hints of scholarship cuts
While there has been no Government decision “at this stage” to cut the number of scholarships awarded to T&T nationals pursuing tertiary level studies, the “level of generosity that existed before”...
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PM on $$ spent for education: Too many students still falling through cracks
Too many students are falling though the cracks and while millions are spent on education there are less educated people in the country.So said Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley after distributing letters...
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Media barred from murder victim’s funeral
Members of the media were barred from entering the New Testament Church of God, California, yesterday, where the funeral of murdered mother of three, Hassina Sarah Khan, took place.When the T&T...
View Article10 accused opt to stay silent
The ten men still on trial for the murder of businesswoman Vindra Naipaul-Coolman have all chosen not to testify in their own defence. During a hearing in the Port-of-Spain High Court yesterday, each...
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Schoolboys slaughtered
Slaughter of the innocents. That was how Laventille residents yesterday described the double murder of two schoolboys, who were dragged from a taxi and shot dead while on their way home at Upper Picton...
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Tobago couple killed in crash
The tiny village of Parlatuvier, Tobago, reacted in shock yesterday after two villagers — a husband and wife — were killed after their pickup van plunged off a precipice on the winding North Side Road,...
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More goods for VAT list—Imbert
Even as Finance Minister Colm Imbert tried to convince citizens that the increased prices in food due to the changes in the Value Added Tax (VAT) schedule would be counter-balanced by increases in the...
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Public servants back pay come September—Colm
Finance Minister Colm Imbert says public servants will receive back pay long before the end of fiscal 2016.He said so during yesterday’s post-Cabinet media briefing while responding to questions from...
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Children reading below level
President of the National Parent Teachers Association (NPTA) Zena Ramatali is not surprised that 100 primary schools are failing.In fact, two years ago the figure was 132, she said.Ramatali was...
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Renelle dreams of walking tall
In 2007, the birth of Renelle Joseph would have been a Christmas gift to her family.When she was born, three days before the holidays, she had just one leg.Renelle’s mother, Leona Ollivere, said all...
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Loss of two model students
T&T has lost two potential “bright stars” with the slaying of Laventille teens Deneilson Smith and Mark Richards who were well-adjusted young men, acting Education Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said...
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