Ministries rallying to help troubled children
Social Development Minister Cherrie-Ann Crichlow-Cockburn says ministries are rallying to assist indiscipline students in schools.She was speaking yesterday at the ministry’s Sowing Empowerment through...
View ArticleDr Tim on PM’s ‘monsters’ remark: He must apologise
Former education minister and Caroni East MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh is calling on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to apologise for referring to the nation’s delinquent children as “monsters.”Participating in...
View ArticleTeens plead guilty to threat charges
Two teenagers of the Chaguanas North Secondary School appeared in court on Monday and yesterday charged with threatening to kill a security guard and threatening to physically harm a teacher.The two...
View ArticleDeyalsingh: Payments made to pharmacies
Payments to pharmacists for July to August 2015 have been processed and were due to be out between yesterday evening and today, whereas payment for subsequent periods are being processed, Health...
View Article$21m to restore roof and walls of Heritage Library
The approved budget for phase one of the restoration works of the National Heritage Library in Port-of-Spain is $21 million.The work in this phase includes the restoration of the roof and walls alone...
View ArticleEMA laments weak legislation
Despite the very high rate of development in this country no new environmental legislation was passed since 2001.And much of the existing environmental legislation is outdated; even with the more...
View ArticleRoget urges firms: Cut profits, not workers
As thousands of citizens face the breadline because of T&T’s current economic slump, Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) leader Ancel Roget says employers should cut their profits instead of laying...
View ArticleManhunt for three others
The two bodies found in a forested area in St Augustine on Tuesday evening were identified yesterday as teenage schoolboys Stephan Singh and Daniel Halls.In a week in which the national conversation...
View ArticleFarrell’s team looking at CNMG report
The findings of the public consultations on state-owned CNMG are being studied by the Terrence Farrell team which is examining state enterprises, Communications Minister Maxie Cuffie said yesterday.He...
View ArticleHeliconia wants probe into Anand’s hirings
The Heliconia Foundation (HF) has asked the Integrity Commission to probe alleged hiring practices at the office of the Attorney General from June 2010 to November 2014 when Anand Ramlogan was the past...
View ArticleConsumers feeling it as prices keep rising
Walking through a Chaguanas supermarket, carefully looking at price tags on basic items, Marissa Lochan has become a selective consumer. In the weeks since Government has implemented the new Value...
View ArticleT&T is latest on Zika advisory list
T&T is the latest Caribbean country to be added to the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Zika advisory. The country as well as the Marshall islands were added on Tuesday. T&T announced its...
View ArticleMinister on T&T’s diabetes rating: It’s a crown of thorns
Childhood obesity has grown by 100 per cent over the last ten to 15 years and this is frightening as it can easily equate to more limbs being amputated due to diabetes at the adult stage says Health...
View ArticleCalder Hart to testify as hearing ends March 31
The testimony of former executive chairman of the Urban Development Corporation of T&T (Udecott), Calder Hart, is the only outstanding piece of evidence to be heard before the Las Alturas...
View ArticleFrom cashier to world class cocoa farmer
Up the forested Corosal Road in the Montserrat Hills of Gran Couva, around a sharp bend and behind two huge mango trees is a cocoa estate described as centuries old.Surrounded by ancient immortelles,...
View ArticlePolice officer charged for DUI, using obscene language
A police officer from the Northern Division appeared before a Chaguanas Magistrate today charged with driving under the influence, resisting arrest and refusing to submit to a breathalyser test. On...
View ArticleFruit vendor shot at Chaguanas mini mart
A fruit vendor died today at hospital after he was shot outside Laura & Joey’s mini mart around 10 pm yesterday in Chaguanas. Cyril De Leon, a resident of Enterprise, Chaguanas, was approached by...
View ArticleNew phone system for prison inmates
Inmates at the nation’s prisons can now make outgoing calls to relatives and friends locally and abroad.Prison officers at the Golden Grove Prison received training in the Inmate Calling Solutions...
View ArticleNew mayor goes after Charlotte St vendors
Newly-appointed mayor of Port-of-Spain Keron Valentine says his immediate focus will be illegal vending on Charlotte Street and the reintroduction of a wrecking policy in the capital.He is expected to...
View ArticleAcid attacker still on the run
After two days of combing San Fernando for a La Romaine man wanted in connection with dousing a mother of three with acid, Southern Division police are now seeking the assistance of the public in...
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