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Judge worried over trend: Prison chief summoned over prisoners’ absence
Acting Prison Commissioner Sterling Stewart has been summoned to appear before a High Court Judge today to give information about the failure of remand prisoners to attend court. For the past three...
View ArticlePoor quality of water is insulting
I live in Couva. I am concerned about the quality of water we have been receiving over the past few years. I have learnt that pure water is tasteless, odourless and colourless. Well, sad to say, the...
View ArticleWorry over why girls are learning more
The achievement gap between males and females in T&T is worrying academic professionals who have decided that it is time to focus on the reasons why males are not performing as well as their female...
View ArticleStaff shortage blamed for prisoners absence
Chronic under-staffing within the T&T Police Service Court and Process Branch has been identified as a major factor affecting the efficency in transportation of prisoners to and from the nation’s...
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Beaten to death with a stone
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt An early-morning argument between two men in South Oropouche has left a 38-year-old electrician dead. Police said Jude Geoffroy, 38, of Tin Pan Alley was at Turpin Trace,...
View ArticleCaught nude in swamp
Two men who reportedly tried to steal a car were later arrested with not even the clothes on their back. The pair of alleged thieves, hoping to escape police, trekked almost a mile into the San...
View ArticleGirl, 10, stabbed in fight over TV remote
A evening at home watching television almost ended in violent death for 10-year-old Cherise Cross. Around 5 pm yesterday, Cross was being prepared for surgery to repair a punctured lung, after she was...
View ArticleYoung heroes rescue pensioner from raging fire
South Oropouche has two new heroes. Prakash Harrinarine, 25, of Dehli Road, Fyzabad and Amrit Butkoon, 23, of Kuldip Trace, St John's Road, Avocat risked their lives to save 67-year-old Kaloutie...
View ArticleTeen found hanging in Rio Claro
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt Relatives of Randall Medina were thrown into shock and sadness when the 16-year-old was found hanging from a rafter in their Rio Claro home yesterday morning. An autopsy by...
View ArticleCepep worker gunned down in Tin Pan Alley
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt Five hours after he was shot in the head, Kent Nicholas died at the San Fernando General Hospital, while undergoing potentially life-saving surgery. Police are yet to...
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$500,000 daylight robbery at Tobago casino
$500,000 in cash and cheques were robbed from the Silver Dollar Casino in Shirvan Plaza, Tobago this morning. Casino general manager Biswajit Bakshi said he received a call around 11 am from his...
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‘No truth to rape talk’
Roselyn Alleyne, the mother of People’s National Movement leader Dr Keith Rowley’s son, Garth, is claiming that an unnamed operative, in cahoots with Minister of the People Vernella Alleyne-Toppin,...
View ArticleKamla sorry, but not going to sanction Vernella
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night added hers to the growing list of voices condemning parts of the statement by Tobago MP Vernella Alleyne-Toppin during the vote of no confidence against...
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Policyholders won’t lose out
Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran has announced a five-point plan to settle outstanding debts owed by the Colonial Life Insurance Company (Clico) to the T&T Government and its...
View ArticleVernella: I never called any names
There is no question of removing Minister in the Ministry of Social Development Vernella Alleyne-Toppin, says People’s Partnership House Leader Roodal Moonilal.“... Because T&T owes her a debt of...
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$18 million ruling for Nunez-Tesheira
A private medical institution and a specialist doctor have been ordered to pay over $18 million in compensation to former finance minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira for their alleged negligence leading to...
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Vernella went too far—Prakash
Congress of the People political leader Prakash Ramadhar and San Fernando West MP Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan were both critical of Minister in the Ministry of People and Social Development Vernella...
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Chief magistrate bows out in Lerbz matter
Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar yesterday agreed to step aside from hearing the preliminary inquiry against former LifeSport co-ordinator Rajaee Ali and five others after both the State and...
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Young Rowley won’t disappear
“They can come with whatever they want—but young Rowley will not disappear.”With that response yesterday, People’s Partnership House leader Dr Roodal Moonilal said he was the one who sanctioned the...
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Pastor: Learn from tragedy
Two of the four men killed last weekend in Felicity were given a Carnival-like send-off with tassa and music trucks blaring, during a street procession to the Felicity cemetery where they were laid to...
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