Have love, will travel
As told to BC PiresPublished: Monday, October 20, 2014TRINI TO D BONEMy name is Eric Julien and I met my Bajan wife on the Internet.I lived in La Brea all my life, up until when I moved to Barbados in...
View ArticleHand-held detector to boost airport security
Anna-Lisa PaulPublished: Monday, October 20, 2014The Customs and Excise Division of the Ministry of Finance has acquired a Multi-Mode Threat Detector machine to improve its ability to detect contraband...
View ArticlePetrotrin boss fears $ crisis, fuel shortage
As workers refuse oil tanker entry...Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Tuesday, October 21, 2014Some $.5 billion in crude oil and the survival of T&T’s economy are behind Petrotrin’s determination to berth...
View ArticleIt’s not necessary, say stakeholders
Published: Wednesday, October 22, 2014Whether Carnival 2015 is cancelled or not depends on the exponential rise in Ebola over the next month says Health Minister Fuad Khan. He was speaking at a forum...
View ArticleIn wake of Ebola threat: Talks next week on Carnival’s fate
Gail AlexanderPublished: Tuesday, October 21, 2014A meeting will be held next Wednesday involving the authorities and all Carnival stakeholders to discuss whether Carnival should be cancelled because...
View Article$300,000 bail for three cops
Sascha WilsonPublished: Tuesday, October 21, 2014Three policemen have been granted bail, totalling $300,000, on allegations of armed robbery, kidnapping, assault and drug possession. PC Ainsley Gay of...
View ArticleCounter-striker ends his hunger
Decision comes two days after collapseGeisha KowlessarPublished: Tuesday, October 21, 2014A cheese paste sandwich and a cup of hot chocolate was the first meal hunger-striker Ravi Maharaj was given...
View Article3 charged with killing cop in court
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2014The State is ready to begin paper committal proceedings against three men charged with the murder of Sgt Hayden Manwaring. When the matter was called before Senior...
View ArticleLovers’ row ends in death; woman held
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2014Police up to late yesterday were probing the death of a 48-year-old technician from New Grant who died after being stabbed in the chest on Sunday. Investigators...
View ArticleFormer Point mayor dies
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2014The Point Fortin Borough flag will fly at half-mast today in honour of former mayor Victor Chin Kit. Chin Kit, 84, died yesterday. He had been ailing for several...
View ArticleVIDEO: Pistorius sentenced to 5 years for killing Reeva Steenkamp
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2014Oscar Pistorius, the South African track star, was sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa said...
View ArticleProposed list of CAPE 2014 scholarship recipients
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2014Following is the complete list of proposed 2014 scholarship recipients in the Caribbean Advance Proficiency Education (CAPE). ARIMA CENTRAL SECONDARY...
View ArticleHRM head bedridden but Wayne wants to go distance
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Wednesday, October 22, 2014Although seemingly bedridden and too weak to move, leader of the Highway Re-Route Movement (HRM) Dr Wayne Kublalsingh remains resolute that he will...
View ArticleCarmona defends his wife’s honour
Published: Wednesday, October 22, 2014Lawyers representing president Anthony Carmona have sent a pre-action protocol letter to comedienne Rachel Price over comments she has been making about the...
View ArticleTetanus vaccines run short
‘Last batch was defective’Radica SookrajPublished: Wednesday, October 22, 2014The public health sector has run short of the tetanus vaccine.A source said yesterday that a batch of the vaccine was found...
View ArticlePetrotrin exposed T&T to Ebola, says Roget
Kevon FelminePublished: Wednesday, October 22, 2014Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget says that Petrotrin could have possibly exposed the country to the Ebola virus as...
View ArticleDad of 36 killed in road accident
Jensen La VendePublished: Wednesday, October 22, 2014Clifton Youk See was an 83-year-old father of 36 children and grandfather of close to 40. He lived a full energetic life up to his death on Monday...
View ArticleWoman in lovers’ row death freed
Kevon FelminePublished: Wednesday, October 22, 2014Police have released the 25-year-old woman arrested for the death of New Grant father Satnarine Ramphal as the Office of the Director of Public...
View ArticleDefence: Witness was beaten for statement
Derek AchongPublished: Wednesday, October 22, 2014Vindra Niapual Coolman Murder Trial Keon Gloster, the State’s main witness in the Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder trial, was allegedly beaten by police...
View ArticleA-Level schol list released
Published: Wednesday, October 22, 2014The Ministry of Education yesterday released the full list of scholarship winners in the 2014 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (Cape).The release came...
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