The Venus Touch
Monday, April 21, 2014Venus, named after the Roman Goddess of Love and Beauty.I arrive at the TTSPCA Tobago branch to pick up the puppy I’ve decided to adopt.
View ArticleBarrackpore father of two shot dead by trap gun
Tuesday, April 22, 2014Relatives of Ramraj Ramnarine are searching for answers after the father of two was shot and killed on Sunday by a trap gun set-up to keep cattle out of agricultural lands in...
View ArticleTewarie responds to Riley’s call to burn draft procurement bill: ‘We’ll work...
Yvonne BaboolalTuesday, April 22, 2014Dr Bhoe TewarieBurning the draft Procurement Bill is not in the mind of Planning Minister Dr Bhoe Tewarie as he is very optimistic the ongoing wrangle between the...
View ArticleCity Council to discuss quarrying at Sando Hill today
Reshma RagoonathTuesday, April 22, 2014The controversial quarrying at the base of San Fernando Hill and the stockpiling of material at Marabella is expected to be discussed today when the San Fernando Cit
View ArticleMayor calls on religious bodies to play greater role in youth development
Tuesday, April 22, 2014Chaguanas mayor Gopaul Boodhan has called on religious organisations to play a greater role in youth development. Boodhan said so yesterday as he opened the annual sports...
View ArticlePrisoners released for Easter holidays
Tuesday, April 22, 2014KINGSTON—Twenty-one inmates were released from prisons across the island just in time for the Easter holidays. Their release was secured by Food for the Poor Jamaica, a local...
View ArticleSearch still on for missing seabather
Tuesday, April 22, 2014Today marks ten days since Penal father of two Alex Sookhoo went missing while bathing at Columbus Bay, Cedros. His relatives
View ArticleNo charges yet for cop who fired gun at Caura
Tuesday, April 22, 2014Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard is expected to decide today whether charges should be laid against a Southern Division police constable who allegedly...
View ArticleAlleyne-Toppin sends out warning: Jail for abusers of the elderly
Yvonne BaboolalTuesday, April 22, 2014The woman police constable who is claiming her colleagues refused to investigate a report that her deceased mother was abused at an old folks home can pass on the ma
View ArticleCordner was doing his own thing says former advisor
Tuesday, April 22, 2014In a witness statement to the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) former command fleet officer of the Defence Force Lester Rodney Gervais said he was asked by Garvin Heerah,...
View ArticleAnand; Fixin’ T&T obsessed with me
Geisha KowlessarTuesday, April 22, 2014Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has accused the watchdog group Fixin’ T&T of being obsessed with him. This as the group’s head Kirk Waithe issued a media...
View ArticleLa Brea MP, residents cry neglect
Yvonne WebbSunday, April 27, 2014La Brea Member of Parliament Fitzgerald Jeffrey took part in a public march in his constituency yesterday to demand that state-owned Pet
View ArticleNo laws against corporal punishment in T&T
RENUKA SINGHSunday, April 27, 2014There is no law in T&T protecting children from corporal punishment at home or at school. Though former president George Maxwell Richards initially assented to the
View ArticlePolluted water contaminating vegetables
SHASTRI BOODANSunday, April 27, 2014Chaguanas mayor Gopaul Boodhan and councillor Lisa Holder (Enterprise North/Esmeralda) both say they are disgusted to see the level of c
View ArticleFord: I did not confirm 7,000 voters were rejected from PNM list
Sunday, April 27, 2014General secretary of the PNM Ashton Ford states categorically that at no time did he ever confirm that 7,000 applications were rejected from the preliminary list of ele
View ArticleSacha makes her next move
Charles Kong SooSunday, April 27, 2014The interior of AMS Curry and Local Cuisine which is set to open on Thursday. The restaurant is Sacha Singh’s, ex-girlfriend of ex-minister Chandresh Sharma,...
View ArticleGovt to put $2.5m ‘idle’ printing press to use
Shaliza HassanaliSunday, April 27, 2014A $2.5 million printing press sitting idle in a University of T&T’s (UTT) warehouse for seven years will play an integral role in th
View ArticleToco police ‘stretched thin’
Charles Kong SooSunday, April 27, 2014The Toco Police Station is beset by a severe manpower shortage and residents fear that they are not as safe or well-protected from criminals who might take...
View ArticleSRPs told tattoos make them targets
Charles Kong SooSunday, April 27, 2014A police sergeant inspects a potential Special Reserve Police candidate for tattoos during a recruitment drive at the East Mucurapo Secondary School in St James...
View ArticleJohn Legend delivers at Tobago Jazz
Franka PhilipSunday, April 27, 2014American recording artist Brandy performs one of her selections during the World Music Night of the Tobago Jazz Experience at Pigeon Point Heritage Park, Tobago on...
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