Aid for mother of asphyxiated child
Sascha WilsonPublished: Sunday, 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...
View ArticleArmy PRO: Criminals posing as soldiers
Published: 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...
View ArticleDe Coteau: Children’s Authority law long overdue
Melissa DoughtyPublished: Sunday, June 22, 2014Gender, Youth and Child Development Minister Clifton De Coteau responded promptly with a simple ‘yes,’ when asked yesterday if legislation for the full...
View Article‘Watch out for fraudsters with biometric cards’
Shaliza HassanaliPublished: Sunday, June 22, 2014The Ministry of the People and Social Development plans to launch its biometric smart cards in July. They claimed the card was designed to eliminate...
View ArticleMixed reactions to Govt’s plans for retired judges
Shaliza HassanaliPublished: Sunday, 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 the age for them...
View Article‘Sex offenders’ registry in T&T long overdue’
...care must be taken in drafting legislation—Mahabir-WyattMelissa DoughtyPublished: Sunday, June 22, 2014Its aim was to protect the nation’s women and children, but since its public proposal in 2011...
View ArticleRamdhar: No one can accuse me of wrongdoing in public or private life
Clevon RaphaelPublished: Sunday, June 22, 2014Prakash RamadharQ: Why should COP members vote for you as political leader of the party?A: I have proven what it takes to be a leader in the most difficult...
View ArticleHeart disease #1 killer in T&T
Shaliza HassanaliPublished: Sunday, 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...
View ArticleAll-out war over Laventille protest
Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Monday, June 23, 2014Police declare...The enemy lines are drawn. Police say they have declared war with protesting residents of Laventille. “As far as we are concerned, this...
View ArticleDouble murder at St Paul Street
Mother, teen gunned downPublished: Monday, June 23, 2014This photo, taken hours before Patrina Salandy, 39, was gunned down yesterday, shows her walking along St Paul Street with her children, from...
View ArticleProbe Keshorn’s death Marlene calls for independent PCA investigation
Published: Monday, June 23, 2014Janet Daniel comforts her son, Kevin Daniel, after he broke down during a visit by area MP Marlene Mc Donald to the family home at Desperlie Crescent, Laventille,...
View ArticleWoman, 74, found dead in St James
Published: Monday, June 23, 2014Crime scene investigators search for clues after Janice Heath, 74, was found dead at her Delhi Street home, yesterday. PHOTO: ABRAHAM DIAZSeventy-four-year-old Janice...
View ArticlePoS gangs recruiting in Central
...but Johnny Abraham says police nipped it in the budYvonne BaboolalPublished: Monday, June 23, 2014What appeared to be a recruitment drive in Central Trinidad by Rasta City and the Muslims, two...
View ArticlePolice force under greater scrutiny
Joshua SurteesPublished: Monday, June 23, 2014US officials undertake TTPS…In the midst of another weekend of killings which took the 2014 murder count to 207 in 173 days with only 26 of those murders...
View ArticleCarolyn dismisses NACTA poll
…Douglas confident in lead-up to COP electionSascha WilsonPublished: Monday, June 23, 2014Challengers Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan and Dr Lincoln Douglas remain confident, despite a opinion poll which puts...
View ArticleBoy on the mend after hot water burn
Sascha WilsonPublished: Monday, June 23, 2014The condition of a five-year-old child who was burnt with hot water at his home is improving. Prince Coutanio, however, remains warded at the San Fernando...
View ArticleMotor Vehicle Authority ready by September
...but will start in phases, says CadizTAUREEF MOHAMMEDPublished: Monday, June 23, 2014The Motor Vehicle Authority (MVA) will not be fully operational in September, but instead is expected to be...
View ArticleObtaining title and rights to property
Nicole SamuelPublished: Monday, June 23, 2014Law Made Simple“Title” as it relates to land, refers to the legal right or interest in a piece of property. This interest can be either freehold (an...
View ArticleRonald through the looking glasses
As told to BC PiresPublished: Monday, June 23, 2014TRINI TO D’ BONEDispensing optician Ronald Romany could never be accused of making a spectacle of himself.My name is Ronald Romany and I’m a...
View ArticleBrother of man slain by cops: I’M SORRY
Law-abiding citizen apologises to cops...Jensen La VendePublished: Tuesday, June 24, 2014Kerwin Rodriguez, the brother of Tishawn Daniel (inset), who was killed by police in Laventille over the long...
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