Nine murders since Holy Thursday
The Easter weekend murder toll climbed to nine yesterday with the killing of 24-year-old Mikhail Dyer who was gunned down at his Enterprise Village, Chaguanas, home at around 3 pm. Police said two...
View ArticleRC Archbishop urges: Remove blocks to development
Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Harris says T&T needs Jesus to remove the stone blocking true national development, just as he removed the stone from His tomb. In his Gloria Saturday Easter Vigil...
View ArticleOne step backwards, two steps forwards
My name is Annabella Morenzie and I organise retreats.My family is very large both on my mother’s and father’s side. However, it is only my mom’s brothers and their families and my dad’s eldest sister...
View ArticleSEA students in limbo as fire destroys Fanny Village school
With Secondary Entrance Exams (SEA) just two months away, parents of students attending Fanny Village Government Primary School watched in horror yesterday as a pre-dawn fire re-ignited around midday...
View ArticleWoodford Lodge Club burns down
The historic Woodford Lodge Recreation Club, once used by socialites of the defunct Caroni (1975) Limited has been destroyed in a fire. The inferno broke out shortly after midday in the unoccupied...
View ArticlePanday bashes Kamla: UNC elections overdue—Bas
As the nation waits on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to call this year’s general election, former prime minister Basdeo Panday says she is leading the United National Congress (UNC) illegally....
View ArticleMom sees son’s horrific death
The sound of her son’s screams as a car ploughed into him along the Solomon Hochoy highway on Easter Sunday night, continues to haunt pensioner Lutchmie Gokool. The distraught woman says she does not...
View ArticleCops probe Rio Claro murder
Gunmen stormed into the home of a Rio Claro gardener and shot him in the head, making him the ninth murder victim for the long weekend. Police said around 6 am on Sunday, Adesh Debi, 35, Legendre Road,...
View ArticleLas Alturas hearing resumes today
The Commission of Enquiry into the Las Alturas housing project at Lady Young Road, Morvant, will resume today at 9.30 am at the Caribbean Court of Justice, Henry Street, Port-of-Spain. The second...
View ArticleSky brings fresh air to radio
"A breath of fresh air."That is how programming consultant Jessie-May Ventour described Sky 99.5 FM, Guardian Media Limited's (GML) newest radio station and the latest to join the FM bandwidth.The...
View ArticleIt may be sold as scrap metal
A statue worth approximately $70,000 was discovered stolen yesterday from the Chaguaramas Military History and Aviation Museum. And in an apparent weird sense of humour, the thieves left an empty beer...
View ArticleColleagues block media and public
Crowds of curious onlookers yesterday flocked outside the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ Court hoping to get a glimpse of 12 police officers who appeared for misbehaving in public office after allegedly...
View ArticleDianne out of election race
Another People’s National Movement (PNM) candidate, Dianne Baldeo-Chadeesingh, has withdrawn from the general election race, the Opposition confirmed yesterday.Baldeo-Chadeesingh, a PNM Senator, had...
View ArticleEx-teacher hosts SEA students
RADHICA SOOKRAJUndeterred by Sunday’s fire, Standard Five pupils of the Fanny Village Government Primary School, Point Fortin, attended classes at the private home of a former teacher yesterday. Karen...
View ArticleFears of more floods in Diego Martin
Some of the major rivers in Maraval and Diego Martin are impeded by bushes almost ten feet high.This concern was raised by Diego Martin North/East Member of Parliament Colm Imbert after a release was...
View ArticleSky brings a breath of fresh air
“A breath of fresh air.” That is how programme consultant Jessie-May Ventour described Sky 99.5 FM, Guardian Media Limited’s (GML) newest radio station and the latest to join the FM bandwidth.The...
View ArticleEngineer: Not enough done to probe site stability
Geo-technical engineer Francis J Arland yesterday testified that not enough investigations were carried out before the construction of multi-storey apartment buildings in the Las Alturas housing...
View ArticleCops lose case against State over promotions
Five police sergeants have lost their bid to secure compensation for an administrative error which they claimed led to them being bypassed for elevation to the rank of inspector. In a judgment...
View ArticleInterpol wants 10 days to trace Vikash
The International Police Organisation (Interpol) has been granted ten days to probe Vikash Sharma, the US deportee who was allegedly held with over $1.6 million in drugs and four-high powered guns near...
View ArticleTeen traumatised by dad’s murder goes missing
A teenaged girl who was receiving counselling after her father’s murder exactly one year and a day ago has gone missing.Venita Chablal, 14, was last seen on March 23 and her mother, Nadine, fears the...
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