MSJ calls on PM to stop controversial highway
Sascha WilsonPublished: Monday, September 22, 2014The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) is calling on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to halt work on the controversial Debe to Mon Desir Highway...
View ArticleMinister Griffith cautions MPs on security talk
Published: Monday, September 22, 2014A joint police/army exercise over the weekend has resulted in excavators and trucks used in illegal quarrying being impounded and the arrests of those involved are...
View ArticlePP, PNM put SBS poll in perspective
Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Monday, September 22, 2014The results of the Express-commissioned poll which shows the results of the 2015 general election would be close, with the People’s Partnership in...
View ArticleT&T supports move to address Ebola spread
Published: Monday, September 22, 2014T&T has pledged to support efforts to address the Ebola crisis in the affected countries and to prevent its spread to other regions. The United Nations Security...
View ArticleACS sets aside $ millions for Disaster Risk Reduction
Rhondor DowlatPublished: Monday, September 22, 2014Early-warning Systems are currently being looked at on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) by the Association of Caribbean States (ACS). According to...
View ArticleRhythm & Oil
As told to BC PiresPublished: Monday, September 22, 2014TRINI TO D BONEMy name is Odilia Garcia and I retail bulk oil. The shop I work out of has been at the same Woodbrook site for over 50 years. I...
View ArticleHowai on failed insurance giant’s future: Sale still best option for Clico
Richard LordPublished: Tuesday, September 23, 2014Clico is for sale but it will only go if the price is right, Finance and the Economy Minister Larry Howai said yesterday. He said so during yesterday’s...
View ArticleSIS, minister ‘silent’ on Beetham contract
Published: Tuesday, September 23, 2014Super Industrial Services Ltd (SISL) has remained mum on its plans to outsource the $1.6 billion Beetham water recycling plant. Several attempts to reach the...
View ArticleProcurement laws will take a year—Howai
Published: Tuesday, September 23, 2014Finance and the Economy Minister Larry Howai says the much anticipated new procurement legislation is not likely to be implemented within the next year. He...
View ArticleAnalysts divided on poll results
Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Tuesday, September 23, 2014Political analyst Dr Winford James says the recent Solution by Simulation poll confirms suspicions that the Government was motivated to alter the...
View ArticleKublalsingh wants NY talks with PM
‘We have way out of crisis’Rhondor DowlatPublished: Tuesday, September 23, 2014Environmentalist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh, who is into his eighth day of a hunger strike today, says he is willing to go to...
View ArticleStalin doing well after mild stroke
Yvonne WebbPublished: Tuesday, September 23, 2014Former Calypso monarch Dr Leroy Calliste (Black Stalin) had a stroke on Sunday night but is improving quickly and could be discharged today or tomorrow....
View ArticleThe Textile King laid to rest
Anna-Lisa PaulPublished: Tuesday, September 23, 2014Jimmy Aboud, known as The Textile King, was laid to rest after a funeral service celebrating his accomplishments and highlighting his hardships. His...
View ArticleSando wrecker operator shot
Kevon FelminePublished: Tuesday, September 23, 2014A wrecker operator was left battling for his life after a shooting that police believe was related to his line of work. Police are working with the...
View ArticlePM champions baby grant at UN
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Tuesday, September 23, 2014Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday boasted about her Government’s babycare grant initiative at the 69th session of the United Nation’s...
View ArticleAppeal Court denies bid to stop work on highway
Third blow for KublalsinghDerek AchongPublished: Tuesday, September 23, 2014The Highway Re-route Movement (HRM) has lost its third successive legal bid to stop construction work on the controversial...
View ArticleUS Virgin Islands senator: Region needs ganja reform
Tony FraserPublished: Tuesday, September 23, 2014St Thomas, US Virgin IslandsCaricom countries now contemplating the possibility of the decriminalisation of marijuana should “proceed with an abundance...
View ArticleAs cops search for acid attacker doctors say: Grandma may lose her sight
Kevon FelminePublished: Wednesday, September 24, 2014Fyzabad mother Linda Thomas will have to live with facial scars for the rest of her life after a male relative doused her with acid on Monday night....
View ArticleUS firm queries T&T health tablet
Published: Wednesday, September 24, 2014A local pastor yesterday remained tightlipped yesterday over allegations about the authenticity of Sure Cure Ultra Omega’s products being sold to the T&T...
View ArticleQuestions over $50m for Coast Guard vessels
Imbert, Griffith in tug of war...Kalifa ClynePublished: Wednesday, September 24, 2014Diego Martin North East MP Colm Imbert and National Security Minister Gary Griffith yesterday had a verbal tug of...
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