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Rowley on escalating murder rate: Unacceptable
Urgent action is being taken to deal with the unacceptable murder rate in Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday.Rowley, who is also the chairman of the National Security...
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Dad of twin girls slain
A 19-year-old father of twin girls was killed a few houses away from his Nicholasville, Barataria, home yesterday, in what police and residents believe was a case of mistaken identity.According to...
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US applies to be made interested party
Former government minister Jack Warner’s extradition proceedings took another turn yesterday when the United States government attempted to intervene in his judicial review lawsuit challenging Attorney...
View ArticleLabour Minister: At least 846 retrenched
Approximately 846 people—and possibly more—have so far been retrenched from 27 private sector companies since September 7, 2015, Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus said yesterday.Replying in...
View ArticleWIN TV loses case
Media house WIN Caribbean Ltd has until Monday to pay almost $5 million in outstanding licensing fees to the Telecommunications Authority of T&T (TATT) or it will be forced to shut down its...
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PM pays tribute to late PNM stalwart
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley paid glowing tribute to former diplomat and senator Winston Steve Moore at his funeral service in San Fernando, yesterday. Rowley was among hundreds of mourners from all...
View ArticleSchool suspensions rise
Data regarding violent acts in secondary schools for the past three years have remained more or less the same as in 2012 when there were 1,912 cases. There were 1,709 cases in 2013, 1,405 cases in 2014...
View ArticleNo new Zika cases in T&T
There remains only one confirmed case of the Zika virus in T&T.This is after the two samples submitted to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) last week tested negative.The samples were...
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Special phone system for prisoners
Prisons Commissioner Sterling Stewart says security systems at the nation’s prisons have been beefed up with the installation of scanners and jammers.Now the inmates can no longer make phone calls on...
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Wrecking to resume in west PoS
To avoid a $500 fine and the hassle and frustration of retrieving their property, vehicle owners who park in west Port-of-Spain should avoid parking on street corners, near fire hydrants, in front of...
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Domestic capital lacking for development
Andre WorrellThere is not enough domestic capital available in T&T to support local development says the former Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Mariano Browne, who spoke yesterday at a...
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Cuba open for T&T business
Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moses is urging T&T companies to look for new business opportunities in Cuba as that country continues to open up to foreign investment.Speaking at a Cuban National...
View ArticleECA denies link to Facebook audio
The Employers Consultative Association (ECA) has distance itself from an audio tape circulating on Facebook which contains erroneous claims by a company to a caller implicating the organisation.In a...
View ArticleEducation Minister taking bull by the horns
Bold action has now been taken by the Minister of Education, Mr Anthony Garcia in having 24 students removed from the Chaguanas North Secondary School. He must be congratulated for his decisiveness...
View ArticleFailure of Parliament Committee on national security
The Parliament should be ashamed of the functioning of its Joint Parliament Committee on National Security that was established on November 13, 2015—more than three months now.Given the unacceptably...
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TTGF to judge Williams and Dick social media photos
Drama between two of T&T’s talented national gymnasts Marisa Dick and Thema Williams escalated earlier this week, as revealing pictures of both women were exposed on social media, intensifying a...
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Narine calls for Bassarath to be investigated
Embattled West Indies off-spinner Sunil Narine is calling for an investigation into an alleged email purportedly sent by president of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) Azim Bassarath.In a release sent...
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FIU’s suspicious transactions report ‘alarmingly small’—West
Former director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) David West has raised red flags about the $354,471,532 million in suspicious transactions reported by the FIU in its 2015 report, which was...
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Carmona: Volunteer to empower young women in T&T
Volunteerism is proving to be costly, says Reema Carmona, wife of president Anthony Carmona. She made a plea for citizens to make greater efforts to ensure that young girls realise their potential and...
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Family defends Chag North Sec student: It was a mistake, he’s only 16
“He’s a good child who wants to be a chef. He will never carry out any violent act against anyone.”Words coming from the mouth of a hurting mother of one of the boys allegedly involved in criminal...
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