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Bakr: Jamaica mistook me for Isis leader
Richard LordPublished: Saturday, October 18, 2014Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr says he was denied entry to Jamaica on Wednesday because the Jamaicans were angry over T&T’s decision to...
View ArticleArima wants more $$ to fight ChikV
Published: Saturday, October 18, 2014The Arima Borough Corporation is complaining about inadequate funding to combat the chikungunya virus. In a press release yesterday the corporation said despite...
View ArticlePM: Ebola is T&T’s greatest threat
Published: Saturday, October 18, 2014Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has admitted that the Ebola virus was the greatest threat facing the people of T&T. She said so during Thursday’s Divali...
View ArticleLocal officials disagree with players’ decision
Jalani BecklesPublished: Friday, October 17, 2014West Indies Players Association disputeMany individuals in the local cricket fraternity are sad and disappointed that the West Indies team took the...
View Article20 per cent discount on flour, rice, oil
PM’s Divali gift...Sascha WilsonPublished: Sunday, October 19, 2014As a gift to the Hindu community for Divali, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night announced a 20 per cent discount on...
View Article$20m owed for Life Sport services
Shaliza HassanaliPublished: Sunday, October 19, 2014Months after the Life Sport programme has been shut down, caterers, coaches, co-ordinators and participants of the programme are still being owed $20...
View ArticleNot a black cent for bandleaders, Soca Monarch, chutney—Fuad
If Carnival is cancelled as a result of Ebola...Cleavon RaphaelPublished: Sunday, October 19, 2014Face to FaceHealth Minister Dr Fuad Khan is adamant that leaders of Carnival bands should not be...
View ArticleDr Deyalsingh: Masks, disposable gloves for airline, immigration personnel
...the damage done by Ebola in ten days took HIV ten years to accomplishCharles Kong SooPublished: Sunday, October 19, 2014T&T is still not ready for an Ebola outbreak. Dr Varma Deyalsingh,...
View Article‘T&T world heritage status at risk’
...fiddling while Rome burns, political imbroglio leaves custodians mumPublished: Sunday, October 19, 2014The Banwari archeological site is not yet a world heritage site and its potential to become one...
View ArticleGriffith threatens housecleaning as he links illegal immigrants to crime
Shaliza HassanaliPublished: Sunday, October 19, 2014National Security Minister Gary Griffith says they have seen “a direct link between criminal activity and illegal immigrants.” Griffith linked the...
View ArticleCalypso to promote Magna Carta
Charles Kong SooPublished: Sunday, October 19, 2014As part of the UK Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee's activities in promoting the understanding of Magna Carta in the Commonwealth Caribbean,...
View ArticleAkin’s Ultimate Group wins entrepreneur award
Sean NeroPublished: Sunday, October 19, 2014Ultimate Group, parent company of mas bands Tribe and Bliss, on Friday won the inaugural Emerging Entrepreneur Award at the T&T Chamber of Industry and...
View Article‘India can learn from T&T’s Divali celebrations’
Paras RamoutarPublished: Sunday, October 19, 2014India can learn how to celebrate Divali from T&T, as evidenced by the majestic presentations at Divali Nagar, says Indian High Commissioner Shri...
View ArticleGovernment to Ravi: Leave highway to us
Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Monday, October 20, 2014Government moved, yesterday, to save the life of pro-highway hunger striker Ravi Maharaj who collapsed outside the Office the Prime Minister, St Clair,...
View ArticleProbe source of anti-Kublalsingh ads—Abdulah
Sharlene RampersadPublished: Monday, October 20, 2014Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) leader David Abdulah is calling for the media to launch an investigation into the financiers of the recent spate...
View ArticleWoman killed crossing highway
Sharlene RampersadPublished: Monday, October 20, 2014A woman was killed instantly as she bent over to pick up her handbag along the Solomon Hochoy Highway. Marisa Rambharose, 42, was crossing the...
View ArticleBody of drowning victim found
Casandra Thompson–ForbesPublished: Monday, October 20, 2014The body of a 23-year-old man who went missing after venturing out to fish on rocks at L’Anse Fourmi, Tobago, on Saturday was recovered...
View ArticleJoint President’s medal winner: I hope I can inspire others
Kalifa ClynePublished: Monday, October 20, 2014President's Medal winner Soleil Baldeosingh says she is more than ready to give back to her country and the world once she completes her studies. The...
View ArticleSecond Muslim leader banned from Jamaica
Published: Monday, October 20, 2014KINGSTON—The Portia Simpson Miller-led administration has been threatened with a lawsuit after Gerald Perreira, a Guyanese Muslim leader, was barred from entering the...
View ArticleMan held at La Tinta with $2m cocaine
Published: Monday, October 20, 2014A quantity of cocaine and marijuana have been recovered after police and coast guard intercepted a pirogue at La Tinta Bay, Chacachacare Island on Friday.One man was...
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