No charges yet for cop who fired gun at Caura
Published: 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...
View ArticleSearch still on for missing seabather
Published: Tuesday, April 22, 2014Today marks ten days since Penal father of two Alex Sookhoo went missing while bathing at Columbus Bay, Cedros. His relatives remain hopeful that the body of the...
View ArticlePrisoners released for Easter holidays
Published: 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,...
View ArticleMayor calls on religious bodies to play greater role in youth development
Published: 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...
View ArticleCity Council to discuss quarrying at Sando Hill today
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Tuesday, 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...
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PNM losing ground despite election victories—Penny
Published: Saturday, April 26, 2014PNM political leader candidate Pennelope Beckles-Robinson greets Ainsley Hinds during a cottage meeting in Embacadere, San Fernando, on Thursday night. PHOTO: RISHI...
View ArticleNo stop work notice issued but Company halts project at base of Sando hill
Yvonne WebbPublished: Saturday, April 26, 2014Although the San Fernando City Corporation is unable to serve a stop work notice to the owners of Stackhouse Company, due to the absence of city engineer...
View ArticleNCBA: Carnival 2014 issues closed
Peter Ray BloodPublished: Saturday, April 26, 2014The controversy between Carnival bandleaders and the National Carnival Bands Association (NCBA) seems to be a closed chapter. In the wake of the...
View ArticlePsycho-social support for families not available
Published: Saturday, April 26, 2014While completely against the thrashing received by the child in the Facebook controversy, I would like to point out that the mother has complained about her daughter...
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Sacha makes her next move
...opens restaurant on Thursday at PiarcoCharles Kong SooPublished: Sunday, April 27, 2014The interior of AMS Curry and Local Cuisine which is set to open on Thursday. The restaurant is Sacha Singh’s,...
View ArticleFord: I did not confirm 7,000 voters were rejected from PNM list
Published: 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...
View ArticlePolluted water contaminating vegetables
...Chaguanas mayor: Stop using rivers as dumping groundsSHASTRI BOODANPublished: Sunday, April 27, 2014Chaguanas mayor Gopaul Boodhan and councillor Lisa Holder (Enterprise North/Esmeralda) both say...
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No laws against corporal punishment in T&T
RENUKA SINGHPublished: Sunday, 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...
View ArticleLa Brea MP, residents cry neglect
Yvonne WebbPublished: Sunday, April 27, 2014La Brea Member of Parliament Fitzgerald Jeffrey took part in a public march in his constituency yesterday to demand that state-owned Petrotrin provide...
View ArticleDeyalsingh: T&T can find middle ground to discipline kids
Charles Kong SooPublished: Sunday, April 27, 2014Secretary of the Association of Psychiatrists of T&T (APTT) Dr Varma Deyalsingh says T&T can find a middle ground in legislation to outlaw...
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The colonial mindset and the CCJ
DR HAMID GHANYPublished: Sunday, April 27, 2014Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Deputy Managing Director/Managing Editor Yesterday’s Guardian editorial raised the issue of the Caribbean Court of...
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John Legend delivers at Tobago Jazz
...but pricey food, bad event management and terrible traffic mar the experienceFranka PhilipPublished: Sunday, April 27, 2014American recording artist Brandy performs one of her selections during the...
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SRPs told tattoos make them targets
Charles Kong SooPublished: Sunday, 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...
View ArticleToco police ‘stretched thin’
Charles Kong SooPublished: Sunday, 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...
View ArticleGovt to put $2.5m ‘idle’ printing press to use
Shaliza HassanaliPublished: Sunday, 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 the setting up of...
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