Court will decide on WIN TV today
High Court Judge Vasheist Kokaram will this afternoon decide whether media house WIN Caribbean Limited can continue to operate its radio and television stations while it challenges the...
View ArticleTeachers protest over money owed
Some 500 disgruntled teachers from T&T’s primary and secondary schools protested yesterday outside the head office of the Education Ministry, Alexandra Street, St Clair, to vent their frustration...
View ArticleMillions more needed to update Chag Boardwalk
In excess of $40 million has already been spent on the development of the Chaguaramas Boardwalk project, however, millions more are needed to fix the problems the development is facing. This was...
View Article‘VAT violators can face legal action’
Businesses which fail to adjust their prices to Government’s new 12.5 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) are running afoul of the VAT Act and according to Trade and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon, the...
View Article$300,000 bail for Couva man in cheque fraud case
A Couva businessman accused of using dishonoured cheques to obtain more than $.4 million worth of items on Wednesday was granted $300,000 bail.Amin Gustave, 42, a director at Amin’s Best Price,...
View ArticleMaxi with 19 children in Bus Route accident
Nineteen children were involved in a mid-morning accident involving two maxi taxis on the Priority Bus Route in Tunapuna. Luckily, none of them were severely injured.Children, sitting on mats, at the...
View ArticleMan, 19, shot dead at work site
A construction worker has today become the country’s latest murder victim. Around 9 am, Jerron Douglas, 19, from Barataria, was shovelling sand at a construction site near his home when three masked...
View ArticleCentral Bank reveals: $32bn in blocked accounts
The Government has $31.9 billion in blocked accounts at the Central Bank, monies that were placed there in an attempt to sterilize excess liquidity, the bank disclosed on Friday.The Central Bank was...
View ArticleEFCL fires Shah, Maharaj
The board of the Education Facilities Company Ltd (EFCL) has taken a decision to terminate the employment of its suspended chief executive officer Sharma Maharaj and chief operations officer, Kiran...
View ArticleNew leader of PNM Tobago Council to be elected
A new political leader of the Tobago Council of the People’s National Movement (PNM) will be elected in the coming months as the party prepares for the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election in...
View ArticleWonderful World finalising probe into hijab case
The management of Wonderful World is in the process of concluding an official enquiry into the case of Njemile Webb, who accused the company of denying her a job because she wears a hijab.The company...
View ArticleJustice delayed for El Pecos victims
It’s now one year and 23 days since an explosion at the El Pecos Restaurant in Maraval left one man—John Soo Ping Chow—dead and 11 people injured and traumatised. El Pecos’ owners suffered $2.1 million...
View ArticleTwo more gunned down
A man was gunned down while on his bike at Dora’s Lotto Booth, Southern Main Road, Cunupia, on Friday. Police said that at 3.30 pm on Friday, Ashton Villafana, 26, a construction worker who lives at No...
View ArticleFIU’s suspicious transactions report ‘alarmingly small’—West
Former director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) David West has raised red flags about the $354,471,532 million in suspicious transactions reported by the FIU in its 2015 report, which was...
View ArticleCarmona: Volunteer to empower young women in T&T
Volunteerism is proving to be costly, says Reema Carmona, wife of president Anthony Carmona. She made a plea for citizens to make greater efforts to ensure that young girls realise their potential and...
View ArticleFamily defends Chag North Sec student: It was a mistake, he’s only 16
“He’s a good child who wants to be a chef. He will never carry out any violent act against anyone.”Words coming from the mouth of a hurting mother of one of the boys allegedly involved in criminal...
View ArticleBhoe: Speaker needs to treat MPs equally
Caroni Central MP Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie says he would like to see Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George be more even-handed in the Lower House.Speaking to the T&T Guardian at the Caroni Central...
View ArticleCop’s son shot dead near churchyard
An aspiring disc jockey and reserved national cricketer was killed on Saturday night as he and others were demolishing a stage opposite the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception along Independence Square,...
View ArticleWrong man arrested
A man resembling Ronald Bissoo, who police are searching for in connection with a report of an acid attack was arrested and later released by Arima police officers yesterday. The man was released...
View Article82 murders in first two months
Of the 82 murders committed for the year, 22 of them happened between 8 am to 6 pm. In most of those murders, police reports stated that people only heard the gunshots and later found the victim/s...
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