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Man shot dead at garage
A La Horquetta man was shot dead at a neighbourhood garage yesterday.Investigators identified the victim as Sherwin Hall, 26.He was shot dead at a garage in Phase IV, police said.Around 2.30 pm,...
View ArticleChicken farm facing closure
Chicken farmers in Tableland and New Grant have started shutting down operations because of a severe water shortage.This is as inadequate rainfall and dwindling water supplies have forced the Water and...
View ArticleEOC welcomes Rowley’s stance
The Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) has expressed satisfaction with statements made by Prime Minister Keith Rowley that he does not support behaviour which discriminates against individuals.However,...
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Recession no excuse for lawlessness
Denouncing oppression and calling for a new social order, former independent senator and Presbyterian Reverend Daniel Teelucksingh says world recession should not be used as an excuse for...
View ArticleReject revenge and show mercy—Carmona
President Anthony Carmona yesterday called on citizens to reject revenge and recreate within our lives love and the application of mercy during Easter.This was the message Carmona relayed to the nation...
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Contractor delay hits UWI’s Debe campus
Delays in the construction of the University of the West Indies south campus have nothing to do with money.So said Pro Vice Chancellor and principal of UWI St Augustine campus, Prof Clement Sankat. In...
View ArticleEx-employee wins $2.5m negligence case
A 52-year-old former Republic Bank Ltd employee, who developed an incurable respiratory disease after being exposed to paint fumes following renovation works at one of the bank’s two branches in...
View ArticleSentencing postponed for fleeing drunk driver
Anthony Ackee, the man who racked up eight charges after he failed to stop while driving under the influence of alcohol in February, will be sentenced by a San Fernando magistrate on April 8.According...
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Gopee-Scoon: T&T better off than many countries
Despite significant challenges at this time, T&T is still better off than many other countries, even among energy exporting nations, says Trade and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon.In her...
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Tobago ice cream flavours St James
For many years, St James, the city that never sleeps, has been associated with bars, street vending and homemade ice cream carts. Now those craving an authentic homemade taste can do so with a wide...
View ArticleIncome at heart of inequality in region
The richest ten per cent of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean pay an exceptionally low personal income tax rate compared with the rate applied to waged workers, according to the...
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New Outlook from Caribbean Export
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados—What is the Outlook for Caribbean trade and business? This is the question the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has attempted to answer through the production...
View Article‘Metro’ is not necessarily ‘gay’
Presently, there is a phenomenon of glorification of what we call the “pretty boy” in the Caribbean. In the not so distant past the term “saga boy” was bestowed on the man who was able to woo all the...
View ArticleMigration leads to underdevelopment
It is with great concern that I am writing on the issue of migration and its global effects on Third World nations. Migration patterns occur mostly with professionals migrating from developing...
View ArticleTCL retired exempt staff ignored
This is an open letter to the Cemex-led management of TCL, Claxton Bay operations, to let them know it is not acceptable to break small commitments as long as you keep the big ones. Six retired TCL...
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Samuels helps Windies into World T20 semis
An excellent bowling and fielding performance by the West Indies team landed them a place in the semifinal of 2016 ICC World T20, with a seven-wicket victory over South Africa at the VCA Stadium in...
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Indian professor calls for T&T, Guyana Test matches
Renowned Indian writer and commentator Prof Ravi Chaturvedi is making a call for Test matches in the upcoming Indian tour of the West Indies, to be played in T&T and Guyana.As was exclusively...
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Hermitage Bay, Cape Banjo ready for the challenge
Hermitage Bay and Cape Banjo attempt to recoup last time out losses by going one better, and making it third time lucky, in the eight-runner three-year-old Maiden Stakes over seven furlongs of Kempton...
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Boldon: St Fort ready to rule
Four-time Olympic medallists and coach of sprinter Khalifa St Fort, Ato Boldon, is convinced she is ready to take on the Caribbean’s best at today’s start of the 2016 Carifta Games in Grenada.Citing...
View ArticleT&T ready to dethrone Jamaica
T&T’s future international track and field athletes will begin their quest for glory today on the first day of the 45th Flow Carifta Games which begins at the National Athletic Stadium in St...
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