Yuille-Williams cleared
The Sunday Guardian also understands that Yuille-Williams is expected to be cleared of any wrongdoing in the allegation that she and the administrators of the Scholarship Fund were guilty of misconduct...
View ArticlePublic now too well informed
People’s National Movement (PNM) leader Dr Keith Rowley says the party will not condone any type of corruption if it forms the next government. Speaking yesterday at a one-day seminar for general...
View ArticleI want no favours
One day before the major players meet to resolve the current impasse between Oilfields Workers Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget and state-owned Petrotrin, Roget said yesterday that the...
View ArticleBiting into corruption
A veteran anti-corruption advocate has sounded a warning that if the scourge of corruption is not successfully tackled, Trinidad and Tobago as a society could be destroyed.Victor Hart, chairman of the...
View ArticleLawyers to peruse Soldado report
An internal probe by state-owned Petrotrin into allegations of corruption in the controversial South-West Soldado developmental project deal is now complete.The comprehensive report is currently being...
View ArticleLabourer, 45, shot dead in Marabella
Relatives of Ancil Alexis, who was shot dead in Marabella yesterday morning, say they will get justice from Allah.Alexis, 45, a labourer, was found slumped in the driver’s seat of his car at Bay View...
View ArticleGovt to shut down Carrera
Three contracts totalling $87.7 million have been awarded for a security perimeter fence and infrastructural work at the Maximum Security Prison (MSP) in Arouca, as Government moves to shut down the...
View ArticleProbe of legal mixup critical
Former attorney general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, SC, has renewed his call for a criminal investigation into exorbitant legal fees paid to attorneys by the Office of the Attorney General.His call came a...
View ArticleParty eyes 5 seats in general election
Newly formed political party, Alliance of Independents (AOI), will this week elect its interim executive as they get set to contest at least five seats in the 2015 general election.By the end of the...
View ArticleNigerian drug suspect held during raids
RSeveral people, including a Nigerian national, were arrested during an overnight police exercise on Friday in Central Trinidad.Police also recovered a 9mm Smith and Wesson pistol, along with 16 rounds...
View ArticleNew mom dead after C-section at Mt Hope
Keisha Ayers never got the chance to bond with her bouncing baby boy. The first-time mother died at 24, mere days after giving birth via caesarean section at the Women’s Hospital, Mount Hope.Her...
View ArticleOWTU calls for T&TEC chair to step aside
The Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) is calling for the removal of T&T Electricity Commission (T&TEC) chairman Sushilla Ramkissoon-Mark while the probe into the purchase of a $26,000 chair...
View ArticleCOP to contest at least 13 seats Candidate selection still in early stages
The Congress of the People (COP) will contest at least 13 seats in the next general election. COP political leader Prakash Ramadhar yesterday told the Guardian that the party will go after all the...
View ArticleVenezuela praises T&T, Caribbean leaders for standing against US executive order
Venezuelan Ambassador Coromoto Godoy-Calderon has praised Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for supporting the repeal of the US executive order against Venezuela at the recent Summit of the...
View ArticlePP, PNM agree to two political debates
The People’s National Movement (PNM) and the People’s Partnership (PP) have both officially accepted invitations to participate in this country’s first national leadership debates ahead of this year’s...
View ArticleRamchand calls for urgent digitisation of Crumbling records
In a heartfelt appeal for respect for our national heritage resources, Prof Kenneth Ramchand is calling for funding for a digitisation project of the Evening News, published by the T&T Guardian...
View ArticleAn Under-13 number ten, aged 10
My name is Ajay Rooplal and I played in the Barbados Cup over Easter. I’m from Siparia. I know is called, “Sip-Paria”. I never hear anybody call it, “Sipper-Ria”.I go to Siparia Hindu School. My...
View ArticleMother makes plea to Goopeesingh: Save my son’s eye
As the official vehicle of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar pulled into the front entrance of the Parliament at the Waterfront Complex in Port-of-Spain, on Friday, Cita Humphrey called out to a...
View ArticleA look at the Public Procurement Act
The Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Act, 2015 was assented to and became law on January 14, 2015. The Act seeks to reform the procurement laws of Trinidad and Tobago in keeping with...
View ArticleNurses: We’ve had enough
Less than 24 hours after a patient launched a missile at a nurse at the Maternity Department of the Port-of-Spain General Hospital and then attempted to physically injure her, nurses at the institution...
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