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$100,000 worth of weed found in mangrove in Marabella
After combing the mangroves covering the Marabella waterfront, Southern Division police found $100,000 worth of "lemon cush" hidden under galvanize sheets. The find came as police were searching the...
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Father of five dies in hospital after being shot
A father of five died while being operated on on Sunday afternoon after being shot while at his Mapp Lands, Laventille home. Police reports state that 47-year-old Abdul Karim was killed after he was...
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Man escapes police custody at the San Fernando Magistrate's court
A man who had just been sentenced to three years hard labour ran out of the San Fernando Magistrates Court today, moments before officers could put handcuffs on him. Russel Thomas and his twin brother...
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Citizens to pay more for food
While an estimated 1,300 businesses will no longer have to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) from next month, thousands of citizens will have to dig deeper in their pockets to buy several items, such as rice...
View ArticleHouseholds can expect to spend $300 more a week
As supermarkets across the country prepare to implement the reduced rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) from 15 per cent to 12.5 per cent which takes effect on February 1, consumers falling into the lower...
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Unique small businesses for Carnival
Whether you love Carnival’s energy or flee it like the plague, it’s an unavoidable entity, like floods in the wet season or hangovers after copious rum. While big bandleaders and party promoters have...
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The Internet sales pitch
“I went home on maternity leave and when I came back in 1998, the Internet had exploded,” said Sarah Carroll, her face still showing some of the surprise of that life change.Carroll had been working on...
View ArticleMake no mistake, latent prejudices run deep
Firstly, as professional to professional, Gayle as sportsman and Mel McLaughlin as journalist, Gayle’s personalising of the interview in the way he did amounts to a trespass. But if the one on the...
View ArticleRecognition to writers and producers long in coming
We are well into the Carnival season for 2016, a period when competitions in our artistic expressions are plentiful. Over the years monetary prizes have increase astronomically, until in recent times...
View ArticleOur people making a difference!
I recently visited Trinidad after having lived abroad for almost eight years. While living here, I was a student at the UWI St Augustine Campus for three years prior to having migrated to the United...
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Man murdered in Maracas
A 27-year-old Morvant man who sought refuge in the serene hills of Maracas Valley, St Joseph was hounded and murdered early this morning. According to police around 6.30 am residents of Waterfall Road...
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Court escapee surrenders himself to police
Russel Thomas, the man who ran out of the San Fernando Magistrates Court yesterday after being sentenced to three years hard labour for armed robbery, has surrendered himself to the police. The...
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Five-year-old boy drowns by sea wall
Police are investigating the death of a five-year-old boy who drowned at sea while playing near his home on Monday. Reports are that Tasari Mc Kenzie was at his Old Train Line, St Margaret’s home when...
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Prison Officer nabbed in attempted burglary
An early morning rooftop pursuit between two bandits and police officers has led to the arrest of one of the thieves, a 27-year-old Prison Officer. Around 1 am, a security guard attached to a furniture...
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Mother of man shot by cops: My son was murdered
Relatives of Stephan “Swell Teeth” St Louis yesterday admitted the 25-year-old father of four “lived the life” but was on Sunday murdered by men who vowed to uphold the law.Speaking with the media at...
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Baptism of fire for new LATT board
The installation of the Christopher John Williams-led board of Lake Asphalt (1978) Ltd (LATT) was greeted with hot protest by asphalt workers yesterday.As the newly-installed chairman was outlining his...
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PM: Aim is consumer power
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said each consumer in T&T had the power to choose what they placed in their food baskets. He was responding to questions about the food items removed from the...
View Article6 cops on ID parades after Central robberies
Officers of the Professional Standards Bureau were up to late yesterday holding identification parades in connection with a spate of robberies in central Trinidad.Six of these were police officers...
View ArticleMan hounded and killed in Maracas
Jason Thomas, who fled to the hills of Maracas Valley, St Joseph, was hounded by those seeking to end his life yesterday morning and was killed.The body of the 27-year-old man from Second Caledonia,...
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Bakr in court on summons charge
Attorneys representing the commission of enquiry (COE) into the 1990 attempted coup yesterday began prosecuting Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr for refusing to answer its summons to testify...
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