Mixed response to airbridge penalty
Rosemarie Gomes, manager of Unlimited Travel and Krystal Tours, does not agree that passengers should be penalised for cancelling their reservations on the Tobago airbrige. The penalty should be for...
View ArticleDoc living in fear
The doctor who surgically removed 17 cocaine pellets from a suspected drug mule’s stomach last December was allegedly threatened and made to performt he illegal surgery at gunpoint.Yesterday, Medical...
View ArticleCoP: Case far from closed
Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams says the investigation into the removal of the 17 cocaine pellets from a patient by a doctor during a surgery last December remains active. He also...
View ArticleMan wrongly labelled Isis terrorist fleeing T&T
Faced with financial ruin, businessman Ashmead Mohammed says he will now have to flee T&T after being labelled an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) terrorist fighter by some of the local...
View ArticleQuarrel over woman leads to man’s death
A love triangle is believed to be the reason behind the murder of a 33-year-old father of four near his home in Eastern Settlement, Sangre Grande, on Thursday. His grieving father is now begging...
View ArticleParia family fears for missing relatives’ safety
Relatives of Irma Rampersad, who along with her grandchild and two of her daughters have not been seen since Sunday, are fearing the worst, as they believe their loved ones have been abducted. However,...
View ArticleAunty Hazel laid to rest
What a woman, said Neil Giuseppi, summing up the late Hazel Ward-Redman, a teacher, television producer, presenter extraordinaire, educator, guide, mentor, patriot and wife. Ward-Redman, who died on...
View ArticleTTPBA head tells Citizens 4D Highway: Unmask yourself
T&T Publishers and Broadcasters Association (TTPBA) president Daren Lee Sing has called on the group known as Citizens 4D Highway to properly unmask themselves in order to meet advertising...
View ArticleAirport staff protest faulty gloves for Ebola
Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke yesterday called for Health Minister Fuad Khan to step down, amid complaints that staff at Piarco Airport were given defective gloves to deal...
View ArticleHRM lawsuit against highway- Trial begins next year
The Highway Re-route Movement (HRM) will have to wait until next year for the trial of its lawsuit challenging the controversial Debe to Mon Desir segment of the Point Fortin Highway. High Court judge...
View ArticleRelief on the way for Savannah dwellers
Housing Development Corporation (HDC) chair Jearlean John says a ground-floor apartment will be available on Monday for a couple now camping in a tent in the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain....
View ArticleHackett: Forensic audit of LifeSport needed
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Glen Hackett says the police will most likely need to commission a forensic audit of the scrapped LifeSport programme in order to help them conclude their...
View ArticleRobbery video stuns country
Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne shocked many viewers this week when he aired disturbing footage of a father and his three-year-old daughter being robbed at gunpoint by bandits as they were about to enter...
View ArticleEnergy Minister: T&T unfazed by falling oil prices
The Caribbean’s largest fossil fuel producing nation is unfazed by the falling price of oil. Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine yesterday said analysis submitted to Cabinet on Thursday shows that gas is...
View Article‘Private hospital launched witch-hunt for whistle-blower in cocaine case’
A lawyer was hired to carry out a witch-hunt for the whistle-blower who leaked a photo of 17 cocaine pellets that were surgically removed by a doctor from a suspected drug mule’s stomach at the...
View ArticleAnand: Doctors obligated to report suspected crimes
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has rejected suggestions that doctors are not under any obligation to report suspected crimes following medical procedures with patients. He said failure to notify the...
View ArticleBro Michael laid to rest...
Often outspoken, even against clergymen, Bro Michael Samuel was described as a legendary educator and fierce soldier in the trenches of humanity. It was no surprise that when hundreds of mourners...
View ArticleProbe launched as Tobago woman dies during childbirth
An investigation has been launched at the Scarborough General Hospital to determine how a 35-year-old woman and her baby died during childbirth. The woman has been identified as Cepep worker Leciana...
View Article‘Long waiting time, no courtesy or care’
Long waiting time for ambulances and lack of courtesy and care extended to ailing patients by ambulance attendants were just two of several complaints members of the public have been voicing to the...
View ArticlePoint Fortin highway controversy, Going Farther, Faster
PART 1Urvashi Tiwari-Roopnarine GML multi-media journalistIt has been the source of controversy ever since construction started...but what exactly is at stake with the Point Fortin highway? To begin...
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