PNM councillors peeved over $.2m retreat
KALIFA SARAH CLYNEPublished: Thursday, July 4, 2013With only a few weeks to go before the council of the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional corporation is dissolved, the corporation is set to spend over $200,000...
View ArticleODPM head calls for national water policy
TAUREEF MOHAMMEDPublished: Thursday, July 4, 2013If an earthquake—similar in magnitude to the one which hit Haiti in 2010—strikes T&T, the area of land in Port-of-Spain from the lighthouse to Movie...
View ArticleKamla: PNM trying to stop project but Penal hospital will be built
Yvonne WebbPublished: Thursday, July 4, 2013Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has accused the Opposition PNM of attempting to torpedo the now contentious construction of the multi-million dollar...
View ArticleTrade union march gets green light
Sascha Wilson & Yvonne WebbPublished: Thursday, July 4, 2013Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams has granted permission to the labour movement for tomorrow’s mass demonstration planned...
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Carpooling on PBR extended to July 31
Published: Thursday, July 4, 2013Yes, it's still legal to carpool on the Priority Bus Route...at least for one more month. Use of the Priority Bus Route (PBR) by private motor vehicles has been...
View ArticleActing CoP gets another extension
Published: Friday, July 5, 2013Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams has been given another six-month extension. He was given his letter of appointment yesterday by chairman of the Police Service...
View ArticleMoonilal still using HDC’s Range Rover
‘I am hoping for new vehicle next month’Reshma RagoonathPublished: Friday, July 5, 2013Days after Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal promised to return the controversial Housing Development...
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Top SEA student sails South again
Melissa DoughtyPublished: Friday, July 5, 2013San Fernando TML’s third place SEA student, Troy Ramlalsingh, is kissed by his parents, Stephen and Jerrine, after Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh...
View ArticleDial forms own political party
...names candidate for Chaguanas WestYvonne BaboolalPublished: Friday, July 5, 2013Former Congress of the People (COP) founding member Nalini Dial has formed her own political party and is putting up a...
View ArticleMeighoo’s DNA in by-election fray
Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Friday, July 5, 2013Dr Kirk Meighoo’s Democratic National Assembly (DNA) has come out of what seemed like political oblivion to contest the Chaguanas West by-election on July...
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SEA dreams come true; others crushed
Kalifa Sarah Clyne and Taureef MohammedPublished: Friday, July 5, 2013After receiving SEA exam results, Irian Allen signs his name on his Lower Morvant Government Primary School classmate Tamia...
View ArticleHundreds to hit city streets today
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Friday, July 5, 2013Hundreds are expected to hit the streets of Port-of-Spain today in what trade unions have termed a “march for justice.” It begins at Woodford Square at 1...
View ArticleCops will be out in full force
Camille ClarkePublished: Friday, July 5, 2013Police public information officer Sgt Wayne Mystar says there will be a strong police presence today at two major events in Port-of-Spain. Mystar was...
View ArticleGrenada PM calls for Caricom free movement
Richard LordPublished: Friday, July 5, 2013Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell is calling for the removal of aliens’ landholding requirements for Caricom nationals. Mitchell made the appeal during...
View ArticleRowley dismisses claims by Privileges Committee
Published: Friday, July 5, 2013Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley is dismissing claims that the Privileges Committee was unable to complete its investigation into a matter of privilege against him...
View ArticleWater-taxi ride for regional leaders
Published: Friday, July 5, 2013Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller strolled off the red carpet to greet some enthusiastic Jamaicans at the Breakfast Shed, Port-of-Spain, yesterday,...
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As Chaguaramas Treaty re-signed Leaders hope for unity
Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Thursday, July 4, 2013Caricom heads of government view a Chinese dragon dance at the Chaguaramas Convention Centre at a function marking the re-enactment yesterday of the 1973...
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Fixing laws key to real progress
Melissa DoughtyPublished: Friday, July 5, 2013Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan, right, chats with Dr C James Hospedales, executive director of Carpha, at the opening of the Caribbean Public Health Agency...
View ArticleDon't March
Published: Friday, July 5, 2013In response to the lack of any real people-driven policies being proposed or even competing political ideologies outside of the ethnic grab-and-share being suggested,...
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Photos of the Day 2013-07-05
Published: Friday, July 5, 2013Photos of the Day July 5th 2013News
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