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Mystery 60-ft crater linked to colonial well
Operations at San Fernando City Corporation’s Carib Street Works Department got off to a late start yesterday, after a sink hole appeared in the parking lot, causing the evacuation of workers.The hole,...
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Landfill fire forces school to close
The Springvale Hindu Primary School was closed this morning, as smoke from ongoing fires at the Forres Park landfill blanketed the community. According to reports, around 8.45 am, shortly after school...
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Construtora OAS cuts 860
After weeks of intense protests for outstanding wages, 860 employees of financially embattled Construtora OAS received the dreadful news yesterday that the company had laid them off.The workers,...
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Missing Central couple killed
A Central couple who were reported missing Sunday were found murdered, hours apart, in two different police divisions on Monday.Police said from their preliminary reports they believed that the body of...
View ArticlePolice investigates ‘gay bashing’ at Naps
An Upper Sixth Form potential scholarship winner of Naparima College, San Fernando, who was involved in a face-off with one of his teachers on the issue of homosexuality, said yesterday that some...
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Suspect in rug lord's murder shot dead
Three months after being accused of killing a reputed south drug kingpin, Dareem Payne was gunned down while walking through a track in La Brea yesterday. Payne, 24, of Cassava Alley, Three Hands, La...
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Japanese pannist was not raped
Forensic reports have confirmed that murdered Japanese pannist Asami Nagakiya was not sexually assaulted before she was strangled in the Queen’s Park Savannah last month.Police sources working on the...
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Principal beaten by two students
Alana Boodoo-Suraj The principal of a secondary school in Rio Claro was beaten by two students yesterday when he tried to stop a fight on the school’s compound.The two students of the Rio Claro East...
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Dead pigeons in prison drug trade
In the past, before the development of electronic communication, homing pigeons had been used to deliver important messages.But in a new text on making deliveries, local criminals have turned to these...
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Burning dump leads to cancelled classes
Claxton Bay residents are planning to start a petition to take to the Government calling for the Forres Park dump to be relocated.Yesterday, smog from an ongoing fire at the dump caused the principal...
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Cop awarded $300,000 for bogus charge
A police inspector who claimed he was framed for a crime he was investigating has been awarded over $300,000 in compensation. High Court Judge Frank Seepersad made the order yesterday as he ruled that...
View ArticleBecause he condemned bigotry: Model student becomes target
Almost overnight, the simple statement that “it is okay to be gay” has turned the spotlight on a model Naparima College Upper Six student, making him a hero in the eyes of some and a pariah to...
View Article358 child abuse cases before courts
Operating on less than half the required staff to be at optimum level, the recently formed Child Protection Unit of the Police Service have 358 cases before the courts arising out of 1,709 reports...
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Kamla accuses PM of protecting wrongdoers: Fire Marlene
Fire Housing Minister Marlene McDonald as soon as possible. Making this call at a media briefing yesterday, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar condemned Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley for...
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Hammer used to kill Central couple
A hammer was one of the weapons used to bludgeoned Central couple Annmarie Bain and Raj Sookhai to death, police said yesterday. According to homicide sources, Bain, whose body was found down a...
View ArticleDismembered, headless corpse found in barrel
The public’s help is being sought as police probe the murder of an unidentified woman whose decapitated and nude corpse was found stuffed in a plastic barrel in the Mitan River on Tuesday night. Police...
View ArticleUnion seeking jobs for 860 OAS workers
As local contractors get set to take over work on the $7.5 billion Solomon Hochoy Highway extension to Point Fortin, the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) hopes to discuss employment for retrenched...
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Tributes for former minister Lincoln Myers: Love, joy in a time of pain
His life may be more well known as one of political contribution in many areas but the other side of former National Alliance for Reconstruction minister Lincoln Myers, who died on Tuesday, involved a...
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Greater role for PCA—Carmona
Civilian oversight bodies like the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) are becoming increasingly important given the increasing lack of confidence in the Police Service, says President Anthony...
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Woman feigns amnesia in court
A woman who claimed she was attacked by her former husband with a seven-inch knife refused to testify against him yesterday because she depended on him for financial help to support their son. Tricia...
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