Prisons blowout USC in ASNL
Prison Services executed its game plan well and was rewarded with a huge 54-16 victory over the University of the Southern Caribbean (USC) on Tuesday night in the Alternative Division of the Courts All...
View ArticleSports minister donates to TTOC
Minister of Sports Darryl Smith continued his support for sports in T&T by agreeing to donate five per cent of his salary for the period February-August, 2016 to T&T Olympic Committee’s Athlete...
View ArticlePro League may have less clubs next year
WALTER ALIBEYIt is unsure whether the T&T Pro League will survive the coming 2017 football season. Four of the eight clubs in the top flight league- Point Fortin Civic Football Club, North East...
View ArticleReplanting Nariva Swamp
A haven for nature lovers, the Nariva Swamp on the east coast, just inland from Manzanilla Bay, is one of T&T’s national treasures. Some of our most interesting wildlife make their home in Nariva,...
View ArticleJoseph-Chin changes lives one bra at a time
Her love affair with breast care and health all started when she needed a bra at nine. Some decades later, that love has driven Nicole Joseph-Chin passionately toward her calling. And now this author,...
View ArticleOpportunity, a root cause of crime
Kevin Baldeosingh Nearly everyone in T&T who is concerned about crime will disagree with Felson’s and Eckert’s crime analyses. This includes both the armchair theorists like media commentators and...
View ArticleFilmmaker seeks crowd-funding to complete Unfinished Sentences
On February 23, award-winning filmmaker Mariel Brown launched a fund-raising campaign on popular crowd-funding website Indiegogo, to raise money towards the completion of her film Unfinished Sentences....
View ArticleRotary Clubs support Alta classes
Alta/Rotary partnerships are a natural fit. The core skill of literacy has been high on Rotary International’s agenda since their adoption of a Decade for Literacy in 1990, the year designated by the...
View ArticleWilliams shows his excellence at music fest
The philosophy of the Scotiabank-sponsored 31st Biennial T&T Music Festival is based on a famous quote by late British music adjudicator Sir H Walford Davies: “The object is not to gain a prize or...
View ArticleStudents battle in 2016 Spoken Word Intercol
Students from 20 secondary schools will compete tomorrow for a place in the finals of this year’s Courts Bocas Speak Out Intercol.Only 12 competitors will go through to the final next week, March 11....
View Article‘Too stink to think’ at Mt Pleasant Primary
Students from the Mt Pleasant Primary School and their parents today blocked the Sum Sum Hill, Claxton Bay, Main Road to draw attention to the recurring problem of a broken sewer system which has...
View ArticleUS report: "T&T achieves considerable gains in fight against narcotics; major...
The United States Department of State says T&T has made considerable accomplishments in the fight against illegal narcotics in 2015, including the extradition of a major drug trafficker.Its...
View ArticlePhagwa Festival Begins in Central
The activity-packed Carnival period is slowly subsiding with fewer entertainment events being held. Having flocked to the beaches these past few weekends following the reign of the Merry Monarch, the...
View ArticleLocals vie for US recording deals
The work of Titan Lee Hai, a Trinidadian-born aspiring rapper/musician, who died after falling off a building at New York University (NYU) in 2014, has helped earn a US recording deal for a fellow...
View ArticlePerfect Technocrats
National youth team captain Marlon “Waldo” Phillip and team-mate Nicholas Prescott led from the front as defending champions Technocrats improved to a 2-0 record in the Flow-sponsored T&T...
View ArticleGymnastic Federation falls off the beam
Here we go again. More small-minded, self-absorbed people holding positions of influence and power in an organisation for which, by their actions, they have no qualifications. What the Gymnastics...
View ArticleGetting to classes just as risky
Students from some crime hotspots risk their lives just to get to school and are also faced with gang culture at school.So said the principal of Barataria South Secondary School, Sharlene...
View ArticleToo stink to think
Traffic came to a standstill in the busy Claxton Bay area yesterday as frustrated students, accompanied by their parents, blocked the Sum Sum Hill Main Road to complain once again about the closure of...
View ArticleOpposition knocks Govt’s crime plan
The Opposition has called for Government to facilitate a local or regional consultation on crime and use citizens’ suggestions in addressing the problem.In a statement, United National Congress...
View ArticlePNM moves to strike out ‘late’ election petition
A High Court judge has reserved her decision on whether one of the United National Congress’ (UNC) six election petitions challenging the result of last year’s general election should be struck out due...
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