Prober: No compromise with Bakr’s absence
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Friday, March 14, 2014The refusal of Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr—the man who staged the July 27, 1990 insurrection—to give evidence to the commission of...
View ArticlePanic in Penal over gas leak
Published: Friday, March 14, 2014Almost three months after Petrotrin’s major oil disaster in the Gulf of Paria, panic rose among Penal residents when a smell of natural gas filled the air as the...
View ArticleVybz Kartel found guilty of murder
Published: Friday, March 14, 2014KINGSTON—Popular Jamaican and international dancehall DJ Vybz Kartel and three co-accused were found guilty of murder in the Home Circuit court yesterday. Kartel, whose...
View ArticleMarlene attacks Penny: She’s not fit to lead PNM
Yvonne WebbPublished: Friday, March 14, 2014Port-of-Spain South MP Marlene Mc Donald has launched a blistering attack on Pennelope Beckles-Robinson, saying she is not fit to lead the PNM into...
View ArticleMP wants answers on CAL overdraft today
Richard LordPublished: Friday, March 14, 2014Has an overdraft facility been established for Caribbean Airlines (CAL) at First Citizens? That is the question being posed by Opposition MP Alicia...
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Texas dad shoots, kills teen daughter's boyfriend
Gerard BestPublished: Friday, March 14, 2014Neighbourhood divided as...An unidentified father on a stretcher shot dead a 17-year-old boy after finding the teen in bed with his 16-year-old daughter this...
View ArticleBaby Simeon’s funeral next week
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014Baby Simeon will be finally laid to rest either next Tuesday or Wednesday. His parents, however, said the child will be buried with many questions...
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Girl, 12, killed in PBR accident
Jensen LaVendePublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014In this family photo, Kadaisha Edwards and a younger relative are shown.A 12-year-old girl died on Thursday night after she was knocked down by a pickup...
View ArticleKhan: AG will investigate newborn’s death
Richard LordPublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan described the recent death of a newborn at the Mt Hope Women’s Hospital as an “adverse event” in a ministerial statement in...
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PM lays Coup enquiry report in Parliament
Raphael John-LallPublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar holds the confidential section of the Commission of Enquiry into the 1990 attempted coup while speaking in...
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Speaker says no to Browne’s baby debate
Richard LordPublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014Dr Amery BrowneSpeaker Wade Mark yesterday denied a motion by Opposition MP Dr Amery Browne seeking an urgent debate on the Carnival Saturday death of a...
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PNMites want change
Gail AlexanderPublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014Penny upset at intimidatory tacticsPeople’s National Movement (PNM) political leader Dr Keith Rowley, centre, flanked by members of his slate vying for...
View ArticleRobinson hospitalised
Derek AchongPublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014Former president Arthur NR Robinson was hospitalised at the St Clair Medical Centre up to late yesterday. Sources said Robinson, 86, who had been...
View ArticleProtest outside Parliament
Kalifa ClynePublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014An elderly man held a piece of cardboard displaying newspaper reports on the death of a 16-year-old cricketer, sweat running down his temples as he faced...
View ArticleBail for schoolboy in pipe attack
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014The 15-year-old Preysal High School student who allegedly beat his fellow schoolmate with an iron pipe on the head appeared before a Couva Magistrate...
View ArticleSentencing deferred for drug-dealing pig farmer
Sascha WilsonPublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014Rio Claro pig farmer Jeffrey Sydney who confessed to selling drugs after the police found 20.76 grammes of marijuana in his parlour is expected to be...
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Trio sentenced to 15 months for killing watchman
Sascha WilsonPublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014Kirth Alexander, 44, left, Sheldon Walker, 37, right, and his brother Sherwin Walker, 35, (back) are escorted by police officers from the San Fernando...
View ArticleAbdulah knocks Rowley on double standards
Kevon FelminePublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014While the People’s National Movement chastised Government over Super Industrial Services Ltd’s being awarded the $1 b contract to build the Beetham Waste...
View ArticleChina $5b loan not for elections—Ambassador
Anthony WilsonPublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014China’s ambassador to T&T Huang Xingyuan on Thursday insisted that the proposed US$750 million infrastructure ($4.8 billion) loans from the Asian...
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Coast Guard rakes up $5m food bill
Businessman seeks paymentPublished: Saturday, March 15, 2014Crime WatchTALKING IT OUT: Narsingh Bisnath, Diane Bisnath, Vishnu Seenath and Cynthie Seenath chat with Ian Alleyne on the Crimewatch set on...
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