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T&T benefiting from the Commonwealth
T&T is benefiting from its membership in the 53-member-nation Commonwealth. So said Planning and Development Minister Camille Robinson-Regis, in response to a question from reporters at a function...
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Mystery 60-ft crater linked to colonial well
Operations at San Fernando City Corporation’s Carib Street Works Department got off to a late start yesterday, after a sink hole appeared in the parking lot, causing the evacuation of workers.The hole,...
View ArticleTTNGL records improved profit
T&T NGL Limited (TTNGL) has recorded after tax earnings of $402.8 million in 2015. This is a significant improvement over the loss of $804.2 million incurred in 2014,” said chairman Gerry C Brooks...
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ArcelorMittal Fallout
Two of three economists interviewed by the T&T Guardian are advising the Government against purchasing the ArcelorMittal steel plant at Point Lisas. The foreign operators of the plant have shut it...
View ArticleUnions: Workers need more protection
The plight of the 644 ArcelorMittal workers who have been put on the breadline following the shutdown of the steel plant at Point Lisas has triggered calls from trade unions for amendments to the...
View ArticleIn protecting animals we protect people
The Simba/Baby Maleek tragedy is shocking and mortifying on every level. Animals Alive extends its heartfelt sympathies to the grieving family. As an Animal Welfare Organisation we are also deeply...
View ArticleUse technology to help with discipline
Nowadays parents occupy their children’s time by allowing them video games, tablets and smartphones. From as early as one year of age (and earlier in some cases) kids are being handed electronic...
View ArticleHoping Minshall returns in 2017
We seem to have promising news with mas maker extraordinaire Peter Minshall who may be returning to the Carnival arena once more next year. It is, hopefully, to continue his excellence in the culture...
View ArticleSeverance benefits should be protected by law
An open letter to the Government of T&T, all trade unions, employees of ArcelorMittal and ArcelorMittal Pt Lisas Limited: Firstly, please allow me to state for the record, that I am writing in the...
View ArticleAnother ‘too big to fail’ company
After a decade and a half of absorbing billions from selling the state inflated-priced steel products they are lamenting that their inflated profit margin is too slim to stay in business in T&T....
View ArticleT&T could only come second in this battle
ISCOTT, the original steel company, was a political plant. A straight case of jobs for the boys.We did not have iron ore occurring naturally but we had natural gas in abundance. So based on one man’s...
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Search on for murder suspect in La Brea
The police are currently combing through the streets of La Brea looking for a man they suspect is connected to murder in the area. At about 10 am Dareem Payne, 24, from Three Hands, La Brea was walking...
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Landfill fire forces school to close
The Springvale Hindu Primary School was closed this morning, as smoke from ongoing fires at the Forres Park landfill blanketed the community. According to reports, around 8.45 am, shortly after school...
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Construtora OAS cuts 860
After weeks of intense protests for outstanding wages, 860 employees of financially embattled Construtora OAS received the dreadful news yesterday that the company had laid them off.The workers,...
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Missing Central couple killed
A Central couple who were reported missing Sunday were found murdered, hours apart, in two different police divisions on Monday.Police said from their preliminary reports they believed that the body of...
View ArticlePolice investigates ‘gay bashing’ at Naps
An Upper Sixth Form potential scholarship winner of Naparima College, San Fernando, who was involved in a face-off with one of his teachers on the issue of homosexuality, said yesterday that some...
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Suspect in rug lord's murder shot dead
Three months after being accused of killing a reputed south drug kingpin, Dareem Payne was gunned down while walking through a track in La Brea yesterday. Payne, 24, of Cassava Alley, Three Hands, La...
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Japanese pannist was not raped
Forensic reports have confirmed that murdered Japanese pannist Asami Nagakiya was not sexually assaulted before she was strangled in the Queen’s Park Savannah last month.Police sources working on the...
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Principal beaten by two students
Alana Boodoo-Suraj The principal of a secondary school in Rio Claro was beaten by two students yesterday when he tried to stop a fight on the school’s compound.The two students of the Rio Claro East...
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Dead pigeons in prison drug trade
In the past, before the development of electronic communication, homing pigeons had been used to deliver important messages.But in a new text on making deliveries, local criminals have turned to these...
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