Gunmen kill one, wound two in Laventille
Derek AchongPublished: Friday, August 9, 2013A shooting in Laventille on Wednesday night has left one man dead and two men warded in hospital. The killing raised the murder toll for the year to 230....
View Article$125,000 bail for man on charge of attempted murder
Sascha WilsonPublished: Friday, August 9, 2013Bail in the sum of $125,000 was yesterday granted to Pleasantville resident Damien Pierre, who is on an attempted murder charge. An application for...
View ArticleElectorate will catch up with PP, says Abdulah
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Friday, August 9, 2013Movement for Social Justice leader David Abdulah yesterday took Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to task after she announced on Wednesday that...
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Kamla knocked over local election claim Rowley says PM will be breaking the law
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Friday, August 9, 2013Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar chats with Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal, left, after a meeting of the United National Congress’...
View ArticlePNM blasts Lee Sing
Troops rally round Rowley Gail AlexanderPublished: Friday, August 9, 2013Out of place and lacking in moral authority to talk. That was People’s National Movement (PNM) general secretary Ashton Ford’s...
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Trini mom and daughter held as Florida cops crack prostitution racket
Published: Friday, August 9, 2013Ramona Ramoutar, left, and Daniella Sinanan were arrested on soliciting prostitution charges in Boynton Beach, Florida on Tuesday.BOYNTON BEACH—A Trinidadian woman and...
View ArticleCops call on suspect to surrender after murder of landlady
Published: Friday, August 9, 2013Police are appealing to the suspect in the murder of 45-year-old landlady Vidya Persad to surrender. She was bludgeoned to death with a hammer during an argument with a...
View ArticleAl-Rawi says Oudit has seen the light
Published: Friday, August 9, 2013Opposition senator Faris Al-Rawi says he will miss Lyndira Oudit in the Senate, adding she had grown into the vice-president’s role since taking up the position. “I...
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Killers continue bloody spree as Mourner slain at wake
Published: Friday, August 9, 2013Carl Welch, brother of murder victim Clyde Welch (INSET), who was shot along Old Trainline, San Fernando, on Wednesday night, while attending a wake. PHOTO: KRISTIAN DE...
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Photos of the Day 2013-08-09
Published: Friday, August 9, 2013Click here to go to the Photo of the Day 2013-08-08 galleryNews
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Caribbean region lagging in data usage
Tremaine Soca WarnerPublished: Friday, August 9, 2013Caribbean ICT Ministers conference - Day 2Bevil Wooding, Chief Knowledge Officer, Congress WBNData is rapidly overtaking voice in global consumer...
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Maulana’s Eid message: Political leaders must be upright moral and honest
Published: Saturday, August 10, 2013Maulana Saddiq Nasir addresses Muslims of the La Romaine masjid, during Eid celebrations at the La Romaine Secondary School yesterday. PHOTO: RISHI RAGOONATHAs...
View ArticleBusiness groups: Give campaign financing top priority
Published: Saturday, August 10, 2013The T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce (TTCIC), the T&T Manufacturers’ Association, the Energy Chamber and the American Chamber of Industry and Commerce of...
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Region lagging in data usage
Tremaine Soca WarnerPublished: Saturday, August 10, 2013On the head table at the Caribbean ICT ministers’ forum at the Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain, yesterday from left are Caribbean Telecommunications...
View ArticleExplosive device found at police station
Camille ClarkePublished: Saturday, August 10, 2013Police are investigating how an explosive device came to be in a police station in northern Trinidad on Thursday night. Police received information and...
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Burnt car-accident victim laid to rest
Sascha WilsonPublished: Saturday, August 10, 2013A couple wearing masks lead the funeral procession of businessman Doodnath Steve Sirju from his Tarouba home yesterday. Sirju, who died in a car crash...
View ArticleLaventille teen shot dead
Published: Saturday, August 10, 2013A 19-year-old Pashley Street man was shot dead on Thursday night at Boot Hill, Trou Macaque, in Laventille. Kriss Martin of Francis Lane, which is off Pashley...
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Moonilal on Penal hospital contract: Canadian Corp to clear the air soon
Published: Saturday, August 10, 2013Philip BuxoThe Canadian Commercial Corporation is to issue a statement on the controversial contract given to troubled Canadian firm SNC Lavalin to design and build...
View ArticleNo justifiable reason to postpone local govt elections—Jack
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Saturday, August 10, 2013Interim political leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) Jack Warner says there is “absolutely no justifiable reason” to postpone local...
View ArticleComputer and systems engineer: Robots can help fight crime
Charles Kong SooPublished: Saturday, August 10, 2013Robots can be used to help fight crime, deployed in high-risk areas without endangering human lives, boost manufacturing and also be programmed to...
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