Kamla warns PNM against HDC plan: Floodgate to litigation
The Government’s new policy to limit the joint income level of people applying for Housing Development Corporation’s (HDC) homes to $25,000 may be heading to the courtroom, as Opposition Leader Kamla...
View ArticleTime to move away from price of oil
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has alluded to T&T’s grim economic situation as members of the Economic Advisory Board were handed their instruments of appointment at the Office of the Prime...
View ArticleChairman: Diversification main aim for economy
A promoter and developer of diversification projects was how former Central Bank’s deputy governor Dr Terrence Farrell described the Economic Advisory Board as members were handed their instruments of...
View ArticlePM: Role for private sector in housing
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley strongly defended Government’s decision to immediately implement the policy that only those who live in households where the total income is less than $25,000 will be...
View ArticleRooftop bandit breaks legs in failed escape bid
Caught in the act of breaking into a jewelry store in San Fernando, a Jamaican national wanted by Interpol jumped 25 feet off a building, breaking both legs in the process as he tried to evade the...
View ArticleT&T running on auto-pilot—Kamla
The Government is now seeking to implement the same anti-terrorism plans it opposed which were outlined in an anti-terrorism resolution co-sponsored by the former People’s Partnership administration...
View ArticleStrange parcel prompts Central PoS shutdown
Jitters over the reign of terror currently being meted out by the Islamic State (ISIS) globally, yesterday brought central Port-of-Spain to a halt.The situation developed after police and Fire Services...
View ArticleNew uniform for lawmen
National Security Minister retired Major General Edmund Dillon yesterday viewed two samples being proffered by the Police Service Social and Welfare Association as the new uniform of the Police...
View ArticleBharath: No Rowley campaign hurt PP
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley was made a victim by the last People’s Partnership administration through its No Rowley campaign and this caused people to embrace and comfort him.So said Vasant Bharath...
View ArticleNew challenges after Paris attacks
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris has posed new challenges to local national security agencies, says president of the International Police Association (IPA) Curtis Belford.He was addressing more...
View ArticleStarting art education early
One day Tessa Alexander Sloane-Seale’s teen daughter came home from school and told her something no artist-parent wants to hear. “Mommy, there are kids in my class who don’t know what a collage is,”...
View ArticleTeams battle in Animation Bootcamp
T&T’s growing animation industry is attracting young people with creative ideas and the means to make these dreams into reality. The Animae Caribe Animation and Digital Media Festival aims to...
View ArticleSporting greats inducted into Hall of Fame
Clayton Morris, former captain of the T&T senior men’s football team from the 1989 era, on Friday joined his coach of that year, Everard “Gally” Cummings, as an inductee in the First Citizens...
View ArticleBon Accord Govt set for Atlantic football titles
Former champion Bon Accord Government will attempt to get back on the winning trail in the Atlantic Primary School League finals at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port-of-Spain, on Wednesday. Minister...
View ArticleJamaica denies U-17 Women Concacaf spot
This country’s Under-17 Women Soca Warriors missed out on a spot at next year’s Concacaf Women’s Finals to be held in St George’s, Grenada, March 3-13 after going under to rivals Jamaica, 1-0 in the...
View ArticleWilliams, Whitfield reach Tobago vball quarters
Top T&T men’s beach volleyball pair, Daneil Williams and Fabien Whitfield advanced to the quarterfinals for the third straight tournament when round-robin pool play ended at the seventh and final...
View Article‘Lil’ Bravo’s confidence boosted by award
Humbled! That’s how West Indies and T&T left-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler Darren Michael Bravo has responded to the T&T Cricket (TTCB) decision to name him as its International...
View ArticleSolozano hits century for Red Force
When it is your day, it is your day and Jeremy Solozano found it was his yesterday, as he recovered from two dropped catches to record a century to give T&T a first innings score of 271 on the...
View ArticleWaugh: Leadership, T20s to blame for WI decline
SYDNEY—Successful former Australia captain Steve Waugh has blamed poor leadership and the lure of global Twenty20 tournaments for the demise of West Indies cricket. Speaking in Bangkok at a global...
View ArticleLatapy quietly confident about Warriors World Cup chances
Former Soca Warriors footballer and head coach Russell Latapy is optimistic about this country’s chances of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but does not want the team to get complacent and...
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