13 per cent of murders ‘solved’
Jensen La VendeSaturday, June 21, 2014Map of Trinidad and Tobago showing the location of the 200 murders for 2014. Data compiled by Solution By Simulation, for Bullet Points (bulletpoints.org.tt).With...
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Reshma RagoonathSaturday, June 21, 2014President of the All Trinidad General Workers Trade Union Nirvan Maharaj, on Thursday, voiced his displeasure over the People’s National
View ArticleTragic deaths of children gets Alleyne’s focus
Saturday, June 21, 2014Undertakers remove the body of Kimora Millette who perished in a house fire at Betsy Street, La Romaine, on Tuesday. PHOTO: RISHI RAGOONATHAlthough there were only three episodes...
View ArticleHunt on for escapee
Jensen La VendeSaturday, June 21, 2014Two guns, a .40 pistol and a .38 revolver with ammunition, which police said were recovered from two men who were involved in a shootout with police in Santa Cruz...
View ArticleEvil lurking the land
Richard LordSaturday, June 21, 2014Port-of-Spain mayor Raymond Tim Kee said evil lurked everywhere in the country, as he commented on the deaths of more than two dozen children for the year. He was speak
View ArticleProposed pension payout an insult to SRC—Dumas
Richard LordSaturday, June 21, 2014Former head of the public service Reginald Dumas says while he has “no problem in principle with increased pension” for judges, the mann
View ArticleDuke betrayed us—Roget
RADICA SOOKRAJSaturday, June 21, 2014“Watson Duke and Errol Mc Leod are traitors to the labour movement.
View ArticlePolice, soldiers, residents clash in Laventille
RENUKA SINGHSunday, June 22, 2014Brothers Jahel, right, and Jeremiah St John fill their bottles from a spring along Laventille Road, under the watchful eye of a female police officer moments after...
View ArticleHeart disease #1 killer in T&T
Shaliza HassanaliSunday, June 22, 2014Dr Colin Nath, right, speaks with Dr Rodney Ramroop at Ramroop’s office at the Eric Williams Medical Science Complex last month. PHOTO: KRISTIAN DE SILVAOut of...
View ArticleRamdhar: No one can accuse me of wrongdoing in public or private life
Clevon RaphaelSunday, June 22, 2014Prakash RamadharQ: Why should COP members vote for you as political leader of the party?
View Article‘Sex offenders’ registry in T&T long overdue’
Melissa DoughtySunday, June 22, 2014Its aim was to protect the nation’s women and children, but since its public proposal in 2011 nothing has been done to establish a sexua
View ArticleMixed reactions to Govt’s plans for retired judges
Shaliza HassanaliSunday, June 22, 2014Plans by the Government to reduce the ten-year ban on judges practising law after they leave the bench, as well as a move to increase th
View Article‘Watch out for fraudsters with biometric cards’
Shaliza HassanaliSunday, June 22, 2014The Ministry of the People and Social Development plans to launch its biometric smart cards in July.
View ArticleDe Coteau: Children’s Authority law long overdue
Melissa DoughtySunday, June 22, 2014Gender, Youth and Child Development Minister Clifton De Coteau responded promptly with a simple ‘yes,’ when asked yesterday if legislati
View ArticleArmy PRO: Criminals posing as soldiers
Sunday, June 22, 2014In the past two months, the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment has noted four hostile encounters with criminals impersonating them, dressed in similar military garb and carry
View ArticleAid for mother of asphyxiated child
Sascha WilsonSunday, June 22, 2014 Minister in the Ministry of the People and Social Development Vernella Alleyne-Toppin holds a child as she listens to Neisha Wattley, left and her husband Kris...
View ArticleFamily grieves as little Kimora laid to rest
Sascha WilsonSunday, June 22, 2014Marsha Caraballo hugs her three children Klev, Khailfa and Kiara as she sits next to the casket containing the body of her daughter Kimora Millette, during the funeral...
View ArticleGriffith: We have to fight fire with fire
RADICA SOOKRAJSunday, June 22, 2014National Security Minister Gary Griffith yesterday applauded the work of the Inter-Agency Task Force, following a shoot-out between criminals and police on foot patrol
View ArticleCarolyn dismisses NACTA poll
Sascha WilsonMonday, June 23, 2014Challengers Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan and Dr Lincoln Douglas remain confident, despite a opinion poll which puts incumbent political lead
View ArticlePolice force under greater scrutiny
Joshua SurteesMonday, June 23, 2014In the midst of another weekend of killings which took the 2014 murder count to 207 in 173 days with only 26 of those murders ‘solved’,
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