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Police association: We need a permanent CoP
Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2014The association’s secretary Insp Michael Seales said yesterday it was concerned about Williams being granted another extension and it was taking so long to appoint a...
View ArticleFourth acting stint for Williams
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Tuesday, July 22, 2014Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams is likely to get a fourth extension of his contract from the Police Service Commission (PSC) later this...
View ArticlePublic health warning: Don’t dismiss Chikungunya mosquito virus
ANNA-LISA PAULPublished: Tuesday, July 22, 2014Officials from the Ministry of Health are concerned that members of the public are not taking on warnings about the Chikungunya virus. While other...
View ArticleCity police back on the job today
Kalifa ClynePublished: Tuesday, July 22, 2014The Port-of-Spain city police officers who refused to work last week, moved from working from below the steps of City Hall yesterday to a space at the back...
View ArticleDPP: Decision soon in Sharma assault case
Gail AlexanderPublished: Tuesday, July 22, 2014Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard said yesterday a decision in the criminal investigation against Fyzabad MP Chandresh Sharma was imminent....
View ArticleCrime bill back in Senate
Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2014Debate on the Indictable offences bill continues in the Senate today. It began July 2009, and is part of a number of bills brought by the Government designed to...
View ArticleMoody’s: Barbados’ mounting fiscal challenges are credit negative
Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2014On July 15, the Central Bank of Barbados published its second-quarter 2014 press release showing that Barbados’ (B3 negative) economic and fiscal performance continued...
View ArticleGraceKennedy buys American food business for US$26m
Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2014Regional conglomerate GraceKennedy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary GraceKennedy Foods (USA) LLC, has entered into an agreement to purchase the operating assets and...
View ArticleTHA Chief Secretary to Finance Minister: Tobago wants its own airline
Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2014The Tobago House of Assembly (THA) wants a separate airline to service the T&T airbridge. THA Chief Secretary Orville London proposed this to Finance Minister Larry...
View ArticleDrayton: Griffith disrespectful
Kalifa ClynePublished: Wednesday, July 23, 2014Independent Senator Helen Drayton yesterday called National Security Minister Gary Griffith “disrespectful” for his response to a letter to a newspaper...
View ArticleUproar over CJ’s role
Richard LordPublished: Wednesday, July 23, 2014Opposition and Independent Senators have expressed concern over a revelation by Justice Minister Emmanuel George that Chief Justice (CJ) Ivor Archie had...
View ArticleCity police hell hole
Rhondor DowlatPublished: Wednesday, July 23, 2014City Police officers were given temporary accommodation yesterday as a mobile police post was parked outside City Hall, Port-of-Spain. PHOTO: JENSEN LA...
View ArticleMother trying her best says neighbour
Jensen La VendePublished: Wednesday, July 23, 2014Facebook beating video The woman at the centre of a Facebook post which shows her beating a child with a shovel leaves the Morvant Police Station...
View ArticleDumas’ lawsuit dismissed
Derek AchongPublished: Wednesday, July 23, 2014Challenge of Police Service Commission appointees... A lawsuit challenging President Anthony Carmona’s appointment of two members of the Police Service...
View ArticleTrini is new head of Howard University
Published: Wednesday, July 23, 2014Wayne FrederickTrinidadian Wayne Frederick was voted the 17th president of Howard University, in Washington, DC, United States, on Monday by the university’s board of...
View ArticleMinister intervenes in Hindu school dispute
Kalifa ClynePublished: Wednesday, July 23, 2014Sonia Mahase-Persad, right, principal of the Lakshmi Girls’ Hindu College accompanies Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh during a tour of the...
View ArticleIllegal immigrants held at nightclub
Published: Wednesday, July 23, 2014Thirty women from the Dominican Republic who were arrested at a Central nightclub were taken to the Immigration Division to be processed late Monday night. The women,...
View ArticleCourt hears in contempt motion: Poor air quality at passport office
Derek AchongPublished: Wednesday, July 23, 2014Carbon dioxide levels at the ground floor of the passport office in Port-of-Spain were recorded at above international standards and have been blamed for...
View ArticleTeen, pensioner infected
TAUREEF MOHAMMEDPublished: Thursday, July 24, 2014Mosquitoes are now carrying the potentially deadly chikungunya virus in T&T and already two people have been tested positive in Arima and Diego...
View ArticleMinistry battles locusts in Chatham
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Thursday, July 24, 2014Intense spraying and defogging has begun in Chatham as the Food Production Ministry battles swarms of locusts that have been ravaging crops, fruit...
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