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Education ministry to move into new home
The education ministry’s new head office on St Vincent Street, Port-of-Spain will be handed over to the ministry by Udecott today, according to Education Minister Anthony Garcia. The 16-floor building...
View ArticleSix years jail for hammer attack
A Princes Town man who struck his former boss on the head several times with a hammer and robbed him of $1,500 has been sentenced to six years hard labour. Vinay Sharma, 30, begged for forgiveness when...
View ArticleCourtroom etiquette
Courtrooms are almost always filled with passion, emotions and drama. Litigation can be a stressful process and often complainants or defendants find it difficult to cope with attending court. Factors...
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Baptiste-Primus: No quick fix for Retrenchment Act
As Government embarks consultation on amendments to the Retrenchment and Severance Benefits Act, Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus has warned that there will be no quick fixes to the existing...
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Guatemala invites T&T nationals
Guatemala’s Ambassador Giovanni Castillo is inviting nationals of T&T to visit Central America’s largest country for business purposes and as casual tourists.“According to research, Guatemala as a...
View ArticleCruise season brings estimated $50m to Tobago
Secretary of the Division of Tourism and Transport in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Tracy Davidson-Celestine said the 2015-2016 cruise ship season, which ended on May 3, was “one of the most...
View ArticleCritical Thinking Needed On Speed Limit Issue
Everyone agrees that the wanton deaths which have occurred because of car accidents are totally unacceptable. However, enforcing the speed limit of 80 kilometres per hour is addressing the wrong...
View ArticleGhana agreements won’t benefit us
Having read all that twaddle about the Ghana Trinidad connection just makes me laugh. Listen man, in five years from now or perhaps even less than that we will all be reading who are the real...
View ArticleChild marriage, just the start
We must accept that there would be changes which may not be proper religiously, traditionally or culturally but which are politically and socially very correct and relevant in keeping with the world in...
View ArticlePrayer is one more weapon in fight against violence
Everything that we see with our normal eyes begins with a journey in the realm of the unseen. Take for example, the life of a flower begins beneath the dirt or a tsunami is triggered by shifts in the...
View ArticleIn defence of Maduro and Chavezism
The use of mass media to paint the last 18 years of Bolivarian Revolution as some sort of dictatorship is completely factually unfounded. In fact under the Revolution the Venezuelan people have had 16...
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Stern test as Warriors face Peru
T&T’s Soca Warriors will kick off their three-game warm up series when they face off with Peru in a friendly international today at the Estadio Nacional in Lima from 9:30pm (8:30 pm Peru).The...
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From steel to cocoa Rebuilding the Cocoa Kingdom
The steel industry may have fallen but one of T&T’s main players in the industry, Kampta Persaud, is now now making his mark in the production of fine-flavoured cocoa beans.Persaud, who is the CEO...
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Beating obesity with sporting culture
Keynote speaker at the second biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Sport Studies and Higher Education on Physical Literacy: Gender, Science and Sport for Development, Dr Dean Kriellaars emphasised...
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Taxi driver ‘Lucky’ killed outside home
While the visit of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro took centre stage yesterday, murderers continued to take lives, leaving four men dead and another nursing gunshot wounds in South and east...
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Latest murder shocks ‘quiet’ Duncan Street
Residents of east Port-of-Spain said the sound of gunshots startled them early yesterday morning shortly before they found the body of a 24-year-old man.According to Duncan Street residents, the area...
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Nearly 400 burn tyres to protest bad roads
Angry residents of Vega de Oropouche staged another protest yesterday, taking their demonstration closer to Sangre Grande in an effort to get the relevant authorities to immediately address road...
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Police block protesters’ view
Peaceful demonstrations yesterday by Venezuelans and local Muslims waiting to see Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro near the Diplomatic Centre, in St Ann’s, turned frantic when police blocked Maduro...
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Govt urged to amend law to help domestics
An urgent call has been made for the Government to amend the Industrial Relations Act to ensure domestic workers are fairly treated under the law.Making the call was Ida Le Blanc, general secretary of...
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Govt moves for stricter control of digital sector
In an attempt to introduce stricter control mechanisms within the telecommunications sector, the Government has decided to join with regional counterparts to harness the growth of the sector which...
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