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2 Toco students suspended after fight at school
Published: Friday, March 28, 2014Two Toco Secondary School students have been suspended following yet another fight which went viral on social media websites last week. The girls were suspended...
View ArticleImmigration now holds 24 Trinis in Venezuela
Published: Friday, March 28, 2014A group of women and children who were among 24 Trinidadian Muslims detained in Venezuela were released to immigration officials in Caracas yesterday. The group was...
View ArticleFish in Gulf contaminated--Aboud’s FFOS
Published: Friday, March 28, 2014Environmental activist Gary Aboud yesterday warned people to stop eating fish, since he now believes most of the fish population is being contaminated in the wake of...
View ArticleFour men killed in shoot-outs with cops
Officer wounded during car chase Jensen LaVende and Kevon FelminePublished: Friday, March 28, 2014 A driver is searched by a police officer during a roadblock exercise along South Quay, Port-of-Spain,...
View ArticleDrug accused hangs self in station cell
Published: Friday, March 28, 2014A 50-year-old Kelly Village man was found hanging in the holding cell of the Arouca Police Station on Wednesday night, hours after he was arrested for possession of...
View ArticleConstituents: Glenn was a hard worker
Kevim FelminePublished: Friday, March 28, 2014Despite the sacking of former people and social development minister Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh being reported internationally, members of his Caroni Central...
View ArticleNew seat for sacked MP in Parliament
Published: Friday, March 28, 2014Sacked government minister Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh is expected to occupy a new seat in Parliament when it meets this afternoon. It will be the first sitting since he was...
View ArticleDyer-Griffith backs PM’s firing of Glenn
Published: Friday, March 28, 2014Vice-chairman of the Congress of the People (COP) Nicole Dyer-Griffith, yesterday joined the chorus of support for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s decision to...
View ArticleImbert on Penny’s fight for PNM leadership: If she wins she can’t lead...
Joshua SurteesPublished: Friday, March 28, 2014Diego Martin North East MP Colm Imbert told a PNM crowd in St Joseph Pennelope Beckles-Robinson could not be the leader of the Opposition, according to...
View ArticleLawyers concerned over closure at BIR
Published: Friday, March 28, 2014The Law Association is adding its concern about the closure of the stamp duty department and also of the closure of the cashier at the Board of Inland Revenue office,...
View Article32 workers added to Children’s Authority
Kalifa ClynePublished: Friday, March 28, 2014The Children’s Authority has hired 32 new staff members and will be fully functioning by September, says Child Protection Task Force chair Diana...
View ArticlePNM to surround Parliament today
Published: Friday, March 28, 2014PNM supporters are expected to assemble outside Parliament this afternoon to protest the Government’s award of a $1.6 billion contract to construct the Beetham Waste...
View ArticleWoman on drug charge freed after retrial
Jensen LaVendePublished: Friday, March 28, 2014Shirley Charles of Penal thanked Jesus, her attorneys and the nine-member jury yesterday after she was freed of a charge of trafficking 2.4 kilos of...
View ArticleGovt, PNM supporters protest outside Parliament
Kalifa ClynePublished: Saturday, March 29, 2014The scene outside Parliament yesterday resembled a circus, with government ministers attempting daring feats as they attempted to weave through hordes of...
View ArticleFired Glenn absent from House
Published: Saturday, March 29, 2014Former People and Social Development minister Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh was absent from Parliament yesterday during the first sitting since his dismissal on Tuesday....
View ArticleWoman drowns in bucket
Published: Saturday, March 29, 2014Arima police are investigating the drowning of a 41-year-old woman, who they believed suffered an epileptic seizure and collapsed in a bucket of water at her home....
View ArticleMore fish kill
Kevon FelminePublished: Saturday, March 29, 2014Months after the December 17 oil spill disaster hundreds of dead fish continue to wash up on Point Sable Beach, La Brea, yesterday. PHOTO: RISHI...
View ArticleBody found in Blanchisseuse
Published: Saturday, March 29, 2014Police are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a decomposing body found over a precipice along Blanchisseuse Road, Arima, near Paria Junction....
View ArticleCOP at JSC: Crime affecting corporations
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Saturday, March 29, 2014While crime was being discussed at yesterday’s Joint Select Committee (JSC) meeting, scores of protesters gathered outside Parliament to voice their...
View ArticleRecaptured prisoner assisting police in murder investigations
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Saturday, March 29, 2014David John PierreConvicted killer David John Pierre, who was recaptured on Thursday after nine months on the run, has been handed over to homicide...
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