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Rowley hails Scotland vote: A victory for the Caribbean
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who openly supported Sir Ronald Sanders for Commonwealth Secretary General, yesterday congratulated Baroness Patricia Scotland who copped the post.Scotland, the...
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Princely send off for accident victim
He languished in hospital for eight months, shrunken and paralysed but when he was cremated yesterday, accident victim Chaitram “Kenny” Rampersad looked like a prince.Even though he died a shadow of...
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Movie mania
Every now and then when I have some free time, I think it would be nice to relax in the air-conditioned darkness of the cinema, with a bag of popcorn and some M&Ms, watching a good movie. However,...
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63 children get free eyewear
Faced with an increase in child obesity cases in T&T, medical practitioner Dr Shazard Soobrattie is calling on parents to make healthier food choices for their children. He was speaking at the...
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Hair Craft
My name is Rachel Grappie and I’m a multimedia artist who changes her hair every month.I’m from Pashley Street, Laventille, where I grew up over 30 years. Girl days in Pashley Street were hard, because...
View ArticleHijab—no place in the workplace?
Asif Hosein-Shah Student, Hugh Wooding Law SchoolFor many it is a piece of cloth, but for Muslim women around the world, the headscarf (loosely called “hijab”) represents a crown of religious symbolism...
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Caroni to resume land distributions
Distribution of land to ex-employees of Caroni (1975) Ltd will move from the Land Division of the Ministry of Agriculture to Caroni (1975) Ltd, Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat announced on...
View ArticleJobsTT’s year in online recruitment
The growing popularity of jobsTT is based on an invested approach to social media. jobsTT.com is an online recruitment platform dedicated to creating more value for employers and Jobseekers, by...
View ArticleSuggestions for ambulance service reform
I would like to share my deep concern with respect to the ambulance service of T&T. Despite the dedication of some of its members, the ambulance service is indeed the most dangerous part of the...
View ArticleBad driving results from no law enforcement
The driving on our roads is becoming worse by the day. Witness those horrific accidents over the past weeks. While people tend to blame wet roads, faulty vehicles, etc, the real blame in my view rests...
View ArticleAnalyst: Decision can unite UNC
The Elections and Boundaries Commission’s (EBC) ability to bend the rules as they are known should be definitively defined by the time the UNC election writs case is over.Also, the six UNC members...
View ArticleAnand slams detractors
The Opposition UNC’s legal team has hailed yesterday’s Court of Appeal ruling as a victory and slammed detractors who had said the UNC’s election petition had been destined to fail.“(Instead) The rule...
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2 in court charged with trafficking Venezuelans
After being arrested a week ago for trafficking two Venezuelan women, Sandy Bedasie-Andrews, the owner of the popular Santa Maria Hotel and her employee Eli Sylvester, had to spend another night in...
View ArticlePiccadilly’s shift to Tranquillity stands
Let Piccadilly prevail. That was the call issued by both Education Minister Anthony Garcia and the chairman of the National Parent Teacher Association Zena Ramatali during a news conference at the...
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Tobago Health Authority’s CEO sacked
Chief executive officer of the Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA) Brent Murphy is no longer employed with the authority with immediate effect.The announcement was made via an internal memo dated...
View ArticleNFM jumps by $0.22
Overall Market activity resulted from trading in 11 securities of which two advanced, three declined and six traded firm.The Composite Index declined by 0.12 per cent to close at 1,157.31, while the...
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NCBJ now owns 29.9% of Guardian Group
Jamaica’s largest bank by assets, NCBJ, yesterday consummated the acquisition of a 29.9 per cent stake in T&T’s largest insurance company, Guardian Group, for an undisclosed sum.The stake purchased...
View Articlefinal nail in unc coffin
Hell will freeze over today, while pigs take flight, as Kamla Persad-Bisessar is forcing me to do something I never thought was possible until now; which is to pay compliment to Dr Keith Rowley....
View ArticleNew bank charges too much
Recently, one of our commercial banks announced that they will be a charge for cash and coin deposits over the counter and a lesser charge, should the customer choose to deposit via the night safe. In...
View ArticleUNC could lose out in election challenge
The latest challenge to the Elections Results 2015 is expected by the losing party. As the calypso says, the winner always say that the Judges were right.It is not my intention to decide if the...
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