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Parents chase teacher back from suspension No way sir
Parents chased away a Standard One teacher from the San Fernando TML Primary School yesterday, after he tried to report for classes four years after being suspended for inappropriate conduct.Taking no...
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‘Mother Teresa’ slain by relative
Yvonne BaboolalCentral Bureau“Granny get stab in her neck!” The terrified screams of 18-year old Chantelle McMillan rocked the quiet neighbourhood of Hummingbird Drive, Edinburgh 500, Chaguanas, on...
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Abdulah on Chaguaramas development protest
What stared as a march against the development of land by farmers in the Chaguaramas area, yesterday cascaded into a forum where some citizens could air their grievances about the state of the...
View ArticleJudge won’t add 5 expert witnesses Big blow for HRM cause
The Highway Re-route Movement (HRM) and its leader Dr Wayne Kublalsingh have been refused permission to add five expert witnesses to their pending lawsuit challenging the Debe to Mon Desir segment of...
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Pop-up lunch highlights challenges of disabled
Three women were lifted by strangers, up two steps and into an Independence Square, Port-of-Spain, fast food restaurant, after waiting on the pavement for several minutes in an attempt to purchase...
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CEPEP worker gunned down
CrimeWatch host Ian Alleyne opened his own investigations in to the murder of CEPEP worker Ryan Applewhite this week.Applewhite, 32, was shot dead at Shende Street Extension Road, San Juan, on...
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6 fire stations closed down
The Fire Service’s ability to respond to fires acrosss north Trinidad has being crippled by the effective closure of six fire stations due to faulty fire tenders. In a telephone interview yesterday,...
View ArticleMiami promotor sues NCC
The National Carnival Commission (NCC) is being sued for over $3m by a Miami based manager/promoter for a breach of contract. In an application filed in the Port-of-Spain High Court, Diane Bissoon...
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Thrust into deep end after reshuffle: Huge task for new AG
Recently appointed Attorney General Garvin Nicholas is pushing ahead with plans to launch a National Prosecutions Service based on the United Kingdom model. A former High Commissioner to the Court of...
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Traffic a major woe for citizens
Traffic. It’s one of the biggest headaches citizens have been facing on the nation’s roads for years. On any given day, thousands of motorists on their way to or from work, school or personal business...
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786,297 vehicles on roads at end of 2014: $4.4B to upgrade infrastructure
Works and Infrastructure Minister Dr Suruj Rambachan has admitted that congestion on the nation’s roads has been fuelling road rage, stress, lack of productivity and takes away from family and leisure...
View ArticleOfficers angry over stalled wage talks
The public has been warned to be cautious, following threats from police, prison and fire officers to withhold their services today and tomorrow. The advice comes from Leo Ramkissoon, president of the...
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Williams on strike threat: It won’t come off
Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams says police officers under the leadership of the president of the Police Second Division Association Anand Ramesar would not “deliberately stay away from...
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Child witnesses parents’ murder/suicide: Abusive husband kills wife, self
As women across the world yesterday celebrated International Women’s Day, a Marabella family were grief-stricken after man killed his wife and himself in the presence of their five-year-old daughter....
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Burglars strike sleeping minister
Bandits sneaked into the family’s home of a government minister as he slept and made off with cash and other electronic items. “My life was spared thank God for that. Thank God for being alive this...
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Rescued 13 knock T&T Coast Guard
The 13 people who reportedly left Marabella on joyride to Tobago, in a pirogue, that ended up drifting to Venezuela returned home yesterday but some of them hid their faces from media cameras. The 11...
View ArticlePower outage knocks out mobile networks
Hundreds of mobile customers lost service on both networks this weekend owing to an electricity outage, according to the service providers bmobile and Digicel. Digicel T&T Ltd, chief executive,...
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Political names for tiger cubs
‘Kamla’ and ‘Rowley’ are the top two names that have been suggested by members of the public so far for the two rare white Bengal tiger cubs at the Emperor Valley Zoo, in Port-of-Spain. So said...
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Fight your way
My name is Michael Francis and I’m a Jack-of-all-trades.I live Sydeham Avenue, St Ann’s. But I really grow up in St Dominic’s Home. Was at least about 20 in the St Dominic’s family, or it could be...
View ArticleConveyancing procedure in T&T
CHERISSE DURRANTConveyancing is the process by which the ownership of land or property is transferred from one person to another. In T&T there are two systems under which land is registered: the...
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