W Connection chases knockout hat-trick
T&T Pro League club W Connection wants to add the Digicel Pro Bowl title to its coffers to ease the disappointment after failing to qualify for 2017 CONCACAF Champions League qualifiers via the...
View ArticleBirds, bugs, bats
Pygmy owls, sharp-eyed hawks, an explosion of bats, gentle manatees, raccoons, mysterious mushrooms, fishes and frogs are just a small fraction of the biodiverse life in T&T, which is home to some...
View ArticleDiner en Blanc scores at Queen’s Hall
When Diner en Blanc took place in Jamaica last year, someone whispered it was not going to be long before it hit Trinidad’s shores. Diner en Blanc, is a popular event that takes place in about 50...
View ArticleHow Alta’s Spelling Programme helps
Both reading and spelling require you to connect letters to speech sounds and to develop a visual memory of the letters in words. However, when you read, you see the letters and have to work out what...
View ArticleBoogsie, Ronnie and PM share A Mother’s Love
Having previously claimed that Invaders is his steelband, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley spent last Sunday evening with members of CAL Invaders Steel Orchestra and patrons attending A Mother’s Love—the...
View ArticleDiversity through Emerging Cinema
The inaugural edition of the World Festival of Emerging Cinema, hosted by UWI’s Film Programme between May 19 and 22, brought to audiences an intense, diverse selection of over 200 productions spanning...
View ArticleSearch on for Caribbean’s top makeup artist
In a bold move to expand the US-based celebrity brand, Kreating New Faces (KNF), throughout the Caribbean, renowned makeup artist, Neema Ali, will host a T&T casting for makeup artists. The...
View ArticleChoo Kong’s political farce moves to Sapa
“Vintage Choo Kong,” that was the sentiment shared by many who attended the first two runs of Play Yuhself, Prime Minister, held in April and May at Cipriani College of Labour and Corporative Studies...
View ArticlePort-of-Spain youth get inspiration for careers in ICT
Blink | bmobile and the We Say “YES!!!” (WSY) organisation joined the rest of the world in observing World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD), recognised annually on May 17. An...
View ArticleMahabir mum on Rowley criticism
There is a long established convention in the Parliament that members of one chamber in general do not comment on the goings-on in another chamber, Independent bench elder Dr Dhanayshar Mahabir has...
View ArticleArmy: Slain soldier not linked to Isis audio
The acting Commanding Officer of the T&T Regiment (TTR), Col Dexter Francis, has dispelled reports made in the media this week linking the death of Cpl Jerry Leacock to voice notes that went viral...
View ArticleCops’ curious behaviour raised
A lead detective with a bad memory, an extra-marital affair between investigators, a corrupt police officer and a suspicious husband were just some of the controversial issues raised by High Court...
View ArticleCorpus Christi mass unaffected by Isis scare
Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Harris yesterday expressed joy at the overwhelming response of thousands of parishioners who attended the annual Corpus Christi Mass at the Queens Park Savannah,...
View ArticleCash hindering T&T’s growth
MasterCard, the leading technology company in the global payments industry, has unveiled the results of a study, Evaluating the Social Cost of Cash, that demonstrates how the use of cash in T&T...
View ArticleANSA Merchant Bank records $297m profit
ANSA Merchant Bank and its subsidiaries had a profit before tax (PBT) of $297.3 million in 2015—the second highest in the bank’s history.Managing director Gregory Hill said this result represents a 13...
View ArticleInternet content providers focus on the Caribbean
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao—Much ink has been spilt and many hands wrung over how slow and expensive the Internet is in the Caribbean. The latest snapshot from ICT Pulse, for example, is a reminder of the...
View ArticleEnergy expert: Oil prices won’t top US$100 a barrel
Following a stunning decline, oil prices have clawed back near the US$50 level this year. Production boomed in the US but is now slumping. Globally, Opec is in disarray and major producers can’t agree...
View ArticleNew addition to ANSA family
There is a new company in the ANSA McAL Group. ANSA Rentals, a professional rental operation, has been added as a division of ANSA Motors, offering a range of services including long-term and...
View ArticleDevelopment of ‘Indian’ radio stations in Trinidad
There are 39 registered local FM radio stations in T&T which service the diverse needs of the multi-religious, multi-ethnic and multi-racial society. Nine of them are Hindu- and Indian-formatted...
View ArticleIt’s time we give back to sweet T&T
The collective consequence of benevolent leadership coupled with the patriotic mindset of citizens putting country first are prerequisites that develop a nation to progressive status. Empirical proof...
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