Demolition permit sought for Greyfriars
Businessman Alfred Galy applied to the Port-of-Spain City Corporation yesterday for a demolition notice for the former Greyfriars church on Frederick Street. This comes a week after the corporation...
View ArticleAnand: Rowley misinterpreting Constitution
PNM leader Keith Rowley has misinterpreted the Constitution and made incorrect, irresponsible statements on the general election process, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said yesterday. “It is...
View ArticleGridlock as Cocorite residents protest road closure
Plans are on stream to build an interchange at the insection of the Western Main Road and the Diego Martin Highway to alleviate traffic woes in west Trinidad. Director of Highways Roger Ganesh said so...
View ArticleLas Alturas enquiry starts soon—AG
The Las Alturas Commission of Enquiry is expected to start sitting by month-end or early December, says Attorney General Anand Ramlogan. Government announced the formation of the commission two weeks...
View ArticleVasant: Rowley misrepresenting President housing issue
Opposition Leader Keith Rowley is intensifying a campaign of misinformation by deliberately misrepresenting issues surrounding the President’s housing, Communications Minister Vasant Bharath says....
View ArticleWanted man’s ex-girlfriend in shock: He’d never kill a child
Relatives of the country’s most wanted man, Azmon “Pappi” Alexander, are urging him to surrender to police before he is killed. Alexander, 28, is wanted in connection with the disappearance and death...
View ArticleMafeking clean-up in full swing
Residents in the flood-ravaged village of Mafeking spent the better part of their day yesterday cleaning up and throwing out flood-soaked furniture and appliances. Some of them washed and scrubbed...
View ArticleGame on! Soca Warriors call off boycott of CFU final
Game on!That’s the assurance now being given by the captain of the Soca Warriors, Kenwynne Jones.Speaking with the T&T Guardian a short while ago, Jones said he was contacted by the Minister of...
View ArticleRescued teens leave hospital
The surviving two sisters of the Brasso Seco family who were abducted on the night of October 26 were discharged from the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, yesterday, four days after...
View ArticleMan sexually assaults girl, 9, in school
Police yesterday arrested a 20-year-old man after he stormed into the Scarborough RC School armed with a knife and sexually assaulted a nine-year-old student.According to police, around 1.30 pm the man...
View ArticleGrande/Mayaro taxi fares hiked to $40
Taxi drivers working the Mayaro to Sangre Grande route have increased their fares by $28 a passenger as they now have to use an alternative route after flood waters washed away about four miles of the...
View ArticleCarmona earned more as a judge
Before he was sworn in as the fifth President of the Republic, former judge Anthony Carmona earned over TT$150,000 a month as a sitting judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He resigned as a...
View ArticleCPO agreed on $15,540 a month in 2013
At the time the Chief Personnel Officer (CPO) agreed to the President’s Housing allowance in July 2013, the allowance was $15,540 a month and not $28,000 monthly to which the Salaries Review Commission...
View ArticleAG questions Rowley’s silence on housing $$
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan yesterday challenged Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley to give details of the House Committee parliamentary meeting which Rowley claimed discussed the $28,000 housing...
View ArticleIntegrity stops Milshirv probe
The Integrity Commission has terminated its probe into the Tobago House of Assembly’s construction of its Milshirv administrative complex, citing insufficient grounds for continuing the investigation....
View ArticleSenate pays tribute to Mansoor
Government, Opposition and President of the Senate Timothy Hamel-Smith paid tribute to the late former independent Senator Michael Mansoor yesterday.He died of cancer on November 11 after being ill for...
View ArticleAzmon looks like a woman
The country’s most wanted man, Azmon Alexander, is eluding capture by dressing like a woman, complete with wig and clean-shaven face, and is being assisted by relatives who live along the Blanchisseuse...
View ArticleSchool sex attack suspect in court
The suspect held in connection with the sexual assault of a nine-year-old student at the Scarborough Roman Catholic School on Tuesday is due to appear in court today. The man, 19, will appear, even as...
View ArticleStill 2,000 suspected ChikV cases, says Fuad
There have been 164 confirmed cases of chikungunya and 2,000 suspected cases in T&T, Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan says. Replying to Opposition MP Dr Amery Browne’s questions in Parliament...
View ArticleCourt rules: NP must rehire 68 workers
Industrial Court judges yesterday ruled that the termination of 68 workers by state-owned oil company National Petroleum (NP) was “harsh and oppressive” and ordered the company to reinstate them. The...
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