Riding the fairy
Published: Monday, February 24, 2014Tobago PeepsRecently in the grocery I heard a customer say to the cashier: “Keep your eye out for the fairy.” I was intrigued until I realised that he meant the...
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NGC signs CNG MoU with Chinese company
Anthony WilsonPublished: Monday, February 24, 2014At the signing ceremony are, from left, Cheung Yipsang, president of ENN Group, China, Roopchan Chadeesingh, chairman of National Gas Company (NGC),...
View ArticleMSJ leader: Socadrome segregating mas
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Monday, February 24, 2014Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) leader David Abdulah says the planned Socadrome at the Jean Pierre Complex in Port-of-Spain is segregating Carnival...
View ArticleDriving home the breathalyser message
Published: Monday, February 24, 2014Law Made SimpleDayadai HarripaulStudent, Hugh Wooding Law School In 2007 the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act Chap. 48:50 was amended to introduce the...
View ArticleT&T to get building code by 2015
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Monday, February 24, 2014T&T should have a national building code by early 2015, chairman of the National Building Code Committee Shyankaran Lalla told the T&T...
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Rock ’n’ Soca Rollercoaster
As told to BC PiresPublished: Monday, February 24, 2014TRINI TO THE BONEPhil HillMy name is Phil Hill and I gave up soca to play rock and roll. I played soca keyboards from around ’96 to 2009 or so...
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Three winners named for Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence
Published: Monday, February 24, 2014Anthony N SabgaThe Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence has announced its three laureates for 2014. In the category of Arts and Letters Prof Liam Teague...
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Bands still going to Savannah
Kalifa ClynePublished: Tuesday, February 25, 2014The four large mas bands which will be part of the Socadrome initiative at the Jean Pierre Complex may still head to the Queen’s Park Savannah,...
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Homosexuality threatens the arts, fuels crime—Clarke
Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Tuesday, February 25, 2014Artist LeRoy ClarkeHomosexuality is not only threatening the arts but is used to indoctrinate gang members, says artist LeRoy Clarke. The T&T...
View ArticleMental experts on cousins’ murder appeal: They’re not fit to stand trial
Derek AchongPublished: Tuesday, February 25, 2014The Appeal Court has begun hearing evidence from a group of British mental health experts who claim that five convicted murderers, who were diagnosed...
View ArticleUnidentified woman found murdered in Petit Valley
Jensen LaVendePublished: Tuesday, February 25, 2014The murder toll increased by two yesterday, pushing it to 79 for the year, with the discovery of the semi-nude, decomposing body of an unidentified...
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Judges hear cry of London’s nephew
16-year-old wins Junior Monarch Khara PersadPublished: Tuesday, February 25, 2014Fyzabad Secondary School student Ronaldo London, 16, delivers an emotional performance of Hear My Cry during the...
View ArticleT&T mulls border lockdown
Published: Tuesday, February 25, 2014National Security Minister Gary Griffith has held talks with defence heads about T&T’s borders as a result of the current unrest in Venezuela, which might cause...
View ArticleT&T’s newest ambassador: China embassy needs more specialist staff
Anthony WilsonPublished: Tuesday, February 25, 2014BEIJING—T&T’s new ambassador to China, Chandradath Singh, says the embassy in Beijing, which is due to be opened officially by Prime Minister...
View ArticleCanada links T&T to gems found in woman’s stomach
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Tuesday, February 25, 2014Canadian police are probing the possibility that a woman who landed at Toronto’s Pearson airport on a flight from T&T on February 3, may have...
View ArticleSewer problem keeps P/Town pupils from school
Sascha WilsonPublished: Tuesday, February 25, 2014Parents of pupils attending the Princes Town Methodist Primary School are refusing to send their children to school because of a sewer problem. Last...
View ArticleSparrow the social media of his time—Rudder
Yvonne WebbPublished: Tuesday, February 25, 2014Many honours and titles have been conferred upon the undisputed King of Calypso, the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Fransico), but last Wednesday night in San...
View ArticleKiddies make mas
Camille ClarkePublished: Tuesday, February 25, 2014The National Carnival Commission’s Kings and Queens Junior preliminary competition went off without a hitch on Sunday at Adam Smith Square in...
View ArticleFree media access to stadium venue
Published: Tuesday, February 25, 2014With the approval of an extended route and separate performance venue for Carnival bands Harts, Tribe, Yuma and Bliss on Carnival Tuesday, free accreditation will...
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JetBlue here to stay
Airline boss proud after inaugural Piarco flightNadaleen SinghPublished: Tuesday, February 25, 2014Airport’s Authority chairman Jason Julien, from left, US Embassy charge d’affaires Keith Gilges,...
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