Scrap dealer to serve 16 years for drug trafficking
Published: Saturday, March 29, 2014A 45-year-old marijuana trafficker was sentenced yesterday to 16 years in prison. Samuel Ramesar, a scrap iron dealer of Centenary Street, Tunapuna stood silently in...
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JTUM: ‘Mother of all marches’ coming soon
Kalifa ClynePublished: Saturday, March 29, 2014Members of the Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) hand out pamphlets for the movement’s upcoming mass public demonstration along the Brian Lara Promenade,...
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Union blames Petrotrin for worker’s death
Sascha WilsonPublished: Saturday, March 29, 2014Lolita Maharaj, 19, centre, is comforted by relatives during the funeral service for her husband Avitar Ramkhelawan at Sudama Village, Fyzabad yesterday....
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Poachers, nets kill turtles at Matura
Sharlene RampersadPublished: Saturday, March 29, 2014One of the dead turtles at Matura Beach. Photo courtesy: Nature SeekersWithin the past few days, five leatherback turtles have washed up dead on the...
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Alleyne breaks new ground
Published: Saturday, March 29, 2014Crime WatchNorrel Nandalal on the ward at the San Fernando General Hospital following the accident after he had an altercation at a bar on March 14. He never regained...
View ArticleSammy: Talk is cheap
Vinode MamchanPublished: Saturday, March 29, 2014West Indies skipper Darren Sammy, responding to a jibe made by Australian all rounder James Faulkner before their World T20 clash in Dhaka, Bangladesh...
View ArticleGrant ends Petrotrin two-match slide
Nigel SimonPublished: Saturday, March 29, 2014National forward Triston Grant scored a timely hat-trick as four-time reigning champions of the T&T Hockey Board Men’s Championship Division, crushed...
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Police probing Chandresh for assault of ex-girlfriend
Shaliza HassanaliPublished: Sunday, March 30, 2014Sacha SinghTourism Minister Chandresh Sharma is under investigation by the police for the assault of his former girlfriend. Sacha Singh, the managing...
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Deosaran, La Guerre’s terms to end in April
Shaliza HassanaliPublished: Tuesday, April 1, 2014Prof Ramesh DeosaranThe terms of two chairmen—Prof Ramesh Deosaran, head of the Police Service Commission (PSC), and Prof John La Guerre, who chairs...
View ArticleThree men freed of shooting at police
Jensen LaVendePublished: Tuesday, April 1, 2014Three men have been freed of shooting at two police officers. They were freed after a Port-of-Spain magistrate found that the lawmen’s version of the...
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Venezuelan airline starts flights to T&T
Raphael John-LallPublished: Tuesday, April 1, 2014Venezuelan Ambassador to T&T Coromoto Godoy, right, speaks with Venezuelan officials following their arrival at Piarco International Airport on the...
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Pure Hatred
Jensen LaVendePublished: Wednesday, April 2, 2014Pastor Kitty's family tells of violent history...Bobbie Ramcharan consoles his sister Allison Lutchmansingh, wife of murdered contractor/farmer Kishan...
View ArticleCops probe why ‘Kitty’ still had gun licence
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Wednesday, April 2, 2014Senior Central Division police have ordered an investigation into how controversial Pastor Vishnu “Kitty” Lutchmansingh was allowed to keep two...
View ArticleDetained Imam begs for more help from T&T
Published: Wednesday, April 2, 2014One of the eight Trinidadian Imams held by security forces in Venezuela on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government of President Nicholas Maduro is pleading...
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Bharath on ministers’ conduct: PP Govt still stable
Raphael John-LallPublished: Wednesday, April 2, 2014Vasant BharathTrade Investments and Communication Minister Vasant Bharath says there is no instability in the People Partnership Government. He was...
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Disobedient teen killed
Jensen La VendePublished: Wednesday, April 2, 2014Sixteen-year-old Kyle Gumbs who was murdered on Monday.After he disobeyed his grandmother and left his Laventille home, 16-year-old Ken-Kerishe Kyle...
View ArticleSchoolboy, 14, in court on knife charge
Sascha WilsonPublished: Wednesday, April 2, 2014A student who pleaded guilty to having a ten-inch knife told a San Fernando magistrate yesterday it was to protect himself from bullies. The 14-year-old,...
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Jury told to ignore State’s statements
Derek AchongPublished: Wednesday, April 2, 2014Vindra Niapual Coolman Murder Trial Justice Malcolm HoldipThe 12-member jury in the murder trial of Central businesswoman Vindra Naipaul-Coolman was told...
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Fishermen blame Aboud for poor sales
Kalifa ClynePublished: Wednesday, April 2, 2014Fish vendor Burton Sammy holds up a king fish at the Cocorite Fishing Facility yesterday. Sammy was among several vendors who complained of low sales...
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Crackdown on illegal vending
Kalifa ClynePublished: Wednesday, April 2, 2014A vendor sells at the corner of Queen and Frederick Street, Port-of-Spain, yesterday. PHOTO: EDISON BOODOOSINGH Port-of-Spain mayor Raymond Tim Kee...
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