Transparency chair: Civil society must step up to police those in authority
Civil society must play a greater role to police those in authority, says chairman of the T&T Transparency Institute Deryck Murray. He was speaking at a press conference at Fernandes Industrial...
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Imbert seeks info on bank’s compliance rules
Finance Minister Colm Imbert has called on State-owned bank, First Citizens, to provide him with information on the systems in place at the bank to ensure there is compliance with financial obligations...
View ArticleProblem students at El Do East identified
Between 25 to 30 El Dorado East Secondary School students who were allegedly involved in illegal activities, ranging from gambling, drugs, sex and threatening teachers, could be removed from...
View ArticleMore police patrols for schools—Dillon
Police would support security at schools by liaising with them on a daily and weekly basis and officers would also have a working relationship with principals and school deans in areas that needed...
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Riot Squad for unpaid workers
The police riot squad was called out to restrain workers yesterday as they attempted to prevent High Court marshals from executing a court order to seize roughly $4 million in assets from OAS...
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Two years after US bust Progress in coke in juice tins case
More than two years after over $640 million in cocaine was shipped to the United States, concealed in orange juice tins, top anti-narcotics police says “some progress” had been made in the case. The...
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Alleyne moves against AG, CoP and Alexander
Lawyers for CNC3’s Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne have issued pre-action protocol letters to the Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi, Inspector Roger Alexander and the acting Commissioner of Police (CoP),...
View ArticleNo leads yet in $m warehouse fire
Chief Fire Officer Kenny Gopaul says investigators have not yet determined the cause of Monday’s fire which destroyed businesses at a warehouse in El Socorro. The fire broke out at one business place...
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Bringing back life to obsolete computers
Like everything else, computers have a life span. When that time is up, most people take the machines to the dump and upgrade to newer models. But Restore a Sense of I Can (RSC), a non-profit...
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T&T’s hot pepper king heating up New York, Miami
Young farmer, Nawaz Karim, is fast emerging as the hot pepper king of T&T and is even heating up New York and Miami with his special brand of Moruga Reds. Karim, 34, plants four acres of carefully...
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‘Too stink to think’ at Mt Pleasant Primary
Students from the Mt Pleasant Primary School and their parents today blocked the Sum Sum Hill, Claxton Bay, Main Road to draw attention to the recurring problem of a broken sewer system which has...
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US report: "T&T achieves considerable gains in fight against narcotics; major...
The United States Department of State says T&T has made considerable accomplishments in the fight against illegal narcotics in 2015, including the extradition of a major drug trafficker.Its...
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Imbert knocked over interference
Finance Minister Colm Imbert was “out of place” to ask First Citizens bank for a report on compliance with financial obligation regulations, since the Central Bank is the local bank’s regulatory body...
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Woman found with throat slit
Southern Division police are probing the murder of a woman who was yesterday found with her throat slit at a housing construction site in San Fernando.The woman remained unidentified up to press time...
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HDC, EFCL main companies owing contractors $b debt
President of the T&T Contractors Association (TTCA) Mikey Joseph says contractors are owed between $1.5 and $1.7 billion by the Government and he has identified the Housing Development Corporation...
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Murdered prisons officer contemplated resigning
Prisons officer Fitzalbert Victor had been thinking about resigning from his job mere weeks before he was murdered, said one of his colleagues.Speaking at the funeral service for the officer at...
View ArticlePolice body demand backpay by monthend
Police officers are threatening to turn up the heat over the seven-month delay in their backpay and have given the State until the end of the month to pay the money owing.This from the leadership of...
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Pensioner perishes as fire guts home
Despite neighbours climbing a ladder and hosing a raging fire, pensioner Fyzool Mohammed suffered a cruel fate when he burned and died inside his Diamond Village home on Thursday night.Mohammed, 73,...
View ArticlePolice hunt ear biter
After a man had bitten off a piece of his landlord’s ear on Wednesday night, he reportedly dangled the bloody part in front of neighbours telling them he was going to eat it. “Ah feel I would eat it...
View ArticleSchool brawl over stolen phone
More than 30 people, including parents and students, were taken to the St Joseph Police Station following a brawl between female students of the St Joseph Secondary School outside the school...
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