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Value with ‘Krystal!’
Zio Gianni should prove a gilt-edged bet in a five-runner Maiden Stakes over twelve furlongs of Wolverhampton Tapeta today, if he stays an extra half mile!On the time-handicap this Lemon Drop Kid colt,...
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Making sense of purpose and priority
T&T has an abundance of world class talent and potential. If only we believed in ourselves and not spend too much time focusing on what’s wrong. When life happens and things don’t go the way you...
View ArticleLeg-spinner Lewis is WI interim manager
ST JOHN’S—Former West Indies leg-spinner Rawl Lewis has been appointed interim West Indies team manager for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup in India. The 41-year-old, currently a West Indies Cricket...
View ArticleU-19s offer hope for WI revival says Patterson
Kingston—One of the region’s foremost cricket students, PJ Patterson, said the success of the Under-19 team at the recent World Cup offers hope for a revival in West Indies cricket.“It is the sign that...
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Lewis maiden hundred powers Red Force
KINGSTON—Evin Lewis’s maiden first class 100 headlined a convincing T&T Red Force win as they predictably trounced Jamaica Scorpions by eight wickets yesterday.The visitors needed just 55 minutes...
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Teachers, students were living in fear
Less than a week after police were alerted to a planned gun attack at the Chaguanas North Secondary School, 24 students have been “removed” from classes there.Some of the 24 reportedly hold criminal...
View ArticleBad parenting partly to blame—TTUTA
President of the T&T Unified Teachers’ Association (TTUTA), Davanand Sinanan, is blaming parenting for the current “dysfunctional and anti-social” behaviour displayed by the nation’s students.He...
View ArticleFIUTT in Senate report: More $$ from T&T going to terrorism
The amount of financial transactions suspected of being linked to terrorist activity has tripled in T&T over 12 months. So said the director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of T&T (FIUTT)...
View ArticleMinistries rallying to help troubled children
Social Development Minister Cherrie-Ann Crichlow-Cockburn says ministries are rallying to assist indiscipline students in schools.She was speaking yesterday at the ministry’s Sowing Empowerment through...
View ArticleDr Tim on PM’s ‘monsters’ remark: He must apologise
Former education minister and Caroni East MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh is calling on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to apologise for referring to the nation’s delinquent children as “monsters.”Participating in...
View ArticleTeens plead guilty to threat charges
Two teenagers of the Chaguanas North Secondary School appeared in court on Monday and yesterday charged with threatening to kill a security guard and threatening to physically harm a teacher.The two...
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Deyalsingh: Payments made to pharmacies
Payments to pharmacists for July to August 2015 have been processed and were due to be out between yesterday evening and today, whereas payment for subsequent periods are being processed, Health...
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$21m to restore roof and walls of Heritage Library
The approved budget for phase one of the restoration works of the National Heritage Library in Port-of-Spain is $21 million.The work in this phase includes the restoration of the roof and walls alone...
View ArticleEMA laments weak legislation
Despite the very high rate of development in this country no new environmental legislation was passed since 2001.And much of the existing environmental legislation is outdated; even with the more...
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Roget urges firms: Cut profits, not workers
As thousands of citizens face the breadline because of T&T’s current economic slump, Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) leader Ancel Roget says employers should cut their profits instead of laying...
View Article1,000 OAS workers facing dismissal
With close to 1000 Construtora OAS workers facing dismissal, Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget is calling for an investigation into the company’s awarding of contracts...
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UWI economist on high food imports: Redeploy Cepep workers to boost agriculture
Andre WorrellSenior lecturer and co-ordinator of the Trade and Economic Development Unit at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Dr Roger Hosein is calling for the reallocation of 80 per...
View ArticleChoose beauty and wonder over ugly
Question: Where else in the world can we see breathtaking natural beauty to match Maracas Bay?Answer: Nowhere!Question: Where else in the world can we also find such a magnificent sight obscured by odd...
View ArticleTraffic laws exist BUT NEED TO BE ENFORCED
As the road carnage continues, are we really up to dealing with this now national problem?We hear, see and read all the road safety ads about drinking and driving, speeding, overtaking and all the...
View ArticlePut accident-prevention measures in place
According to statistics, there have been hundreds of road accidents and over one hundred road fatalities each year. How many more will die on our roadways before stricter regulations are put into...
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