Dog Control Act kicks in but T&T not yet ready — stakeholders
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Monday, June 2, 2014PitbullThe law governing ownership of dangerous dogs comes into effect today but several issues, including insurance coverage for people who do not own...
View ArticleSection 34 repeal appeal case- Judges set to rule Wednesday
Derek AchongPublished: Monday, June 2, 2014Three Appellate Judges are expected to deliver their judgment in the controversial appeal of two businessmen and an insurance company challenging the repeal...
View ArticleSat’s public servants comment upsets Dumas
PM must say if she agreesRichard LordPublished: Monday, June 2, 2014Former head of the public service, Reginald Dumas, is taking issue with a claim by the secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha...
View ArticleTardy WASA finally fixes leak
Published: Monday, June 2, 2014Guardian AngelEach week, the Guardian Angel column highlights complaints sent in by you, the consumer, and provides solutions or directs you to the appropriate resource....
View ArticleOne food love
As told to BC PiresPublished: Monday, June 2, 2014TRINI TO D BONECollette RubenMy name is Collette Ruben and I’ve just graduated as a Cordon Bleu professional chef. I’m a Santa Cruz girl. Not so far...
View ArticleFrantic dash fails to save toddler
Kevon FelminePublished: Tuesday, June 3, 2014Police are investigating the death of a 23-month-old baby who was found floating in a pond at his family’s Mayaro home on Sunday. Despite being grabbed up...
View ArticleGrieving mom wants answers
Girl, 5, drowns in pool after swim classJensen La VendePublished: Tuesday, June 3, 2014Jemilia Forde, mother of five-year-old Jemimah Agard (inset), is comforted by Alisha Richardson, left and Porsha...
View ArticleCOP suspends Roberts over ganja video
Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Tuesday, June 3, 2014Sports Minister Anil RobertsThe Congress of the People last night suspended Sports Minister Anil Roberts from the party over his failure to co-operate...
View ArticleIsaac Blackman beaten, robbed
Kevon FelminePublished: Tuesday, June 3, 2014Local gospel singer Isaac Blackman is thanking God after surviving a brutal attack on his family at their Piparo home yesterday. Blackman’s sister, Lynette...
View ArticleTeen gunned down after bar brawl
Published: Tuesday, June 3, 2014A San Fernando teenager’s bullet-riddled body had to be fished out of a river near Trinidad Cement’s Claxton Bay plant early yesterday. Police are working with the...
View ArticleMan killed two weeks after prison release
Kevon FelminePublished: Tuesday, June 3, 2014Just two weeks after San Fernando handyman Roopchan Harripersad was released from prison, he was murdered with a single bullet to the head. But although he...
View ArticleOpposition MP calls for frontal attack on crime
After four murders in 24 hours...Richard LordPublished: Tuesday, June 3, 2014Two Opposition MPs yesterday called for an attack and social intervention in the fight against crime. There were four...
View ArticleNo injuries in Tobago bus fire
Casandra Thompson-ForbesPublished: Tuesday, June 3, 2014A PTSC bus transporting schoolchildren in Tobago caught fire yesterday morning. According to reports, the bus left Charlotteville shortly after 8...
View ArticleGodmother of shot nine-year-old: He was a momma’s boy
Jensen La VendePublished: Tuesday, June 3, 2014Crime Scene Investigators search outside the Morvant home of brothers Jadel Holder and Jamal Braithwaite, for clues yesterday. The siblings were shot in...
View ArticleRead what Anil Roberts wrote to COP chair about his suspension from party
Gerard BestPublished: Tuesday, June 3, 2014Anil RobertsFollowing is the full text of a letter sent by Congress of the People (COP) member Anil Roberts to Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan on June 3rd. Roberts...
View ArticleBrace for landslides
Joshua SurteesPublished: Tuesday, June 3, 2014Worst dry season since 1997A section of the Fondes Amandes ridge which was destroyed by bush fires in May. Photo: CLYDE LEWISFor the staff of the Fondes...
View ArticleTeen beaten to death after wake
...as murder toll hits 188Jensen La VendePublished: Wednesday, June 4, 2014Rosemarie Garraway takes a phone call while chatting with the media outside the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday,...
View ArticleMom has no $$ for slain sons’ funerals
Published: Wednesday, June 4, 2014Michelle Holder, the mother of the two young boys who were killed by gunmen at her Morvant home on Sunday, says she has no money to bury her sons. However, she...
View ArticleI won’t be bullied—Carolyn
…‘We didn’t invite Anil to tea party’Radhica SookrajPublished: Wednesday, June 4, 2014Congress of the People chair Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan during an interview at her constituency office yesterday....
View ArticleHumbled by Dookeran’s vote for leadership
Radhica SookrajPublished: Wednesday, June 4, 2014Congress of the People (COP) chair Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan says she will decide by Friday whether or not she intends to contest the post of political...
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