T&T gets two new vessels to service seabridge
Government has given the Port Authority of T&T (PATT) approval to lease two vessels, Cabo Star, and the passenger boat, Ocean Flower, to service the seabridge between Trinidad and Tobago.Anytime...
View ArticleMahabir-Wyatt: Don’t criticise Children’s Authority
Help the Children’s Authority, don’t criticise it, says child rights activist, Diana Mahabir-Wyatt. Asking how many children outside of the Children’s Authority have committed suicide, Mahabir-Wyatt...
View ArticleOpposition did not walk out during debate—Kamla
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has denied reports that the Opposition walked out during debate in the Lower House on flooding after Tropical Storm Bret. She said they left only after the...
View ArticleThree-way fight for COP leadership
Three women are vying to lead the Congress of the People as the almost dormant political party seeks to rebuild and relaunch as the third political force in T&T.Former deputy political leaders...
View ArticlePurchases above board
Following the launch of the Housing Development Corporation’s (HDC) upscale Victoria Keys development “in and around February 2017”, the housing corporation identified through its sales office “a clear...
View ArticleMoonilal at UNC forum: Posh HDC units for army chiefs
Both Chief of Defence Staff Brigadier General Rodney Smart, now on vacation and acting Chief of Defence Staff Hayden Pritchard have purchased apartment units at the posh Housing Development Corporation...
View ArticleBoy, 9, claims he was beaten with PVC by teacher
Romone Boodoo, a nine-year old second year student of Rousillac Hindu Primary, had his world turned upside down when a teacher at the school beat him with a piece of PVC pipe.Boodoo, of Matterson...
View ArticleMom tormented
After an agonising 12-year wait for justice for the murder of her son, Colin Ruiz, on Mother’s Day 2005, Grace Ruiz was left angry, hurt and disappointed at the sentencing of his killers on Friday,...
View ArticleYou can run but not hide
Independent Senator David Small yesterday read the Riot Act to directors of the Education Facilities Company Ltd (EFCL) who failed to show up for a Joint Select Committee (JSC) meeting in Parliament,...
View ArticleWe followed all rules
Enigma Events, the operators of the Indian expo at Macoya which was given the boot by the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation (TPRC) just before Indian Arrival Day, is accusing the corporation of...
View ArticleSenator: Motor Vehicles Bill surreptitious
Describing the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017 as a “surreptitious” way to extort more money from citizens, Opposition Senator Danny Solomon accused the Government of inflicting...
View ArticleAnand sticks to his story
Former attorney general, Anand Ramlogan SC, who led a legal challenge against the Government’s property tax exerciseHe is holding on to his position the process was not consistent with established...
View ArticleSports hotel fees realistic
Hassel Thom, president of the Trinidad Hotels, Restaurants & Tourism Association (THRTA) says the $92,000 bill chalked up by Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Darryl Smith, for a three-night...
View ArticleBrinsley’s moving search for his roots
University of the West Indies history professor, Dr Brinsley Samaroo, great-grandson of indentured Indians, in a moving search for his roots in India, found his relatives in the village of Baraich in...
View ArticleGo outside your comfort zone
Trade and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon has urged CIBC First Caribbean Banking Centre and other members of the Bankers Association to “move a little bit beyond your comfort zones and to explore...
View ArticlePolice Service 1,000 short
The Police Service has a shortfall of one thousand officers even as it continues to grapple with spiralling crime, particularly murders, and waning confidence from the public.Deputy Commissioner of...
View ArticleSupernormal bank profits
Describing bank fees for simple things like closing an account, depositing cheques and even an empty envelope in an ATM machine as “supernormal”, Government Senator Michael Coppin yesterday called on...
View ArticleEarly rainy season as showers drench T&T
The Met Office yesterday announced the start of the 2017 rainy season as torrential showers drenched most of the country causing several motorists the skid of the road and flash flooding in some areas....
View ArticleT&T Express out for repairs
Tobagonians who are experiencing food shortages because of inadequate transportation of goods to the island are now battling more problems with the passenger ferry service.This after the T&T...
View ArticleEnill: Economy stabilising
T&T is not doing as badly as it was about one year ago.This was what former finance minister in a previous PNM administration, Conrad Enill, said he came away with from Finance Minister Colm...
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