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TTOC signs partnership for good governance policy
The T&T Olympic Committee (TTOC) has announced a collaboration with the International Centre for Sport Security Europe (ICSS Europe) to work together to help protect and safeguard sport. Following...
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Flow Carenage Utd unbeaten in Super league qualifiers
WALTER ALIBEYFlow Carenage United, the champion team of the Northern Football Association (NFA), leads the standings in the Champion of Champions Super League Qualifiers after two rounds of action with...
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Bovell III bags 50m breaststroke bronze
Top T&T swimmer and Olympic bronze medallist George Bovell III swam to a bronze medal in the men’s 50m breaststroke at the 12th Eindhoven Swim Cup, which is also used as the Dutch Olympic Trials,...
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Hinds hits Samuels for six
President of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) Wavell Hinds slammed into West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels for speaking the untruth concerning his remuneration for playing for the West...
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Garner bowls CARICOM bouncer
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados—Barbados Cricket Association president, Joel Garner, has hit out at the Caricom-commissioned Governance Panel’s controversial recommendation that the West Indies Cricket Board be...
View ArticleOutpouring of support for displaced family
In a T&T Guardian article last week, Ingrid Applewhite and her son, Joshua, who were living in a bathroom at the back of the Pinto Road recreation ground, were featured. Since then, help continues...
View ArticleUrgent need to develop tourism industry
If successive governments had been asked the question: “Do you want tourism?” they would probably have all said, “Yes, of course.” But one after the other they have failed to put the building blocks in...
View ArticleThe myth of fuel subsidies
The Minister of Finance in his mid-term review of the 2015-16 budget, raised the prices of super gasoline and diesel by 15 per cent in an attempt to bring them into line with the current international...
View ArticleBudget review a valiant attempt by Government
This mid-year review is a valiant attempt by the Government to ease the country into the frigid economic waters with which we are now faced. The elimination of the fuel subsidy is justified not just by...
View ArticleManaging the economy in challenging times
As a businessman for the past 50 years, where managing any business is the same as managing a government, when your overdraft is at the maximum you have to do what is the best to save your business; in...
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State company runs out of cash
Employees at the Rural Development Company (RDC) in Couva have not been paid for the entire first quarter of the year and are owed more than $.75 million in salaries.In addition to the 23 workers,...
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Robber kills bar patron
A 33-year-old New Grant welder who stopped at a bar for a drink with friends was fatally shot during a robbery yesterday afternoon. Sunil Jaisarie was shot in the right eye by a gunman during the...
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Primary school violence increasing: Teachers fear for their safety
As the new school term begins today, teachers at primary schools in east and central Trinidad say they fear for their safety because of gang violence and are calling for an urgent intervention by...
View ArticleFuneral for slain cop tomorrow
News that Government will be paying $1 million in compensation to police officers killed in the line of duty is of no comfort to the common-law wife of slain PC Anson Benjamin. Cherry Ann Foster, 33,...
View ArticleTeen bandit dies at hospital
One of two teenagers who robbed a PH driver of his vehicle using a fake gun then crashed into a light pole during a high speed chase with police on Saturday has died. Kemroy Alexander, 18, sucumbed to...
View ArticleSuspects still at large after Brasso robbery
Still shaken by a robbery in Tabaquite last week in which two of the assailants were killed, 23-year-old Chanice Marchand is still not sure she will ever return to her job as a pump attendant. The...
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MSJ knocks mid term budget measures
Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) political leader David Abdulah has criticised the Government for failing to hold public consultation before Friday’s mid year budget review. At a press conference...
View ArticleCasino workers fear job losses
Scores of casino workers gathered in front of the Parliament Building in Port-of-Spain on Friday to protest the increased taxes imposed on the gaming industry. They are worried that as a result of that...
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Former AG suggests DNA database can help reduce crime
“Government should concentrate on putting resources to be able to fix the justice system in Trinidad and Tobago.” So said former attorney general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj during a workers’ meeting...
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Cancer patient does all he can to help
When asked what he wanted, the first thing 12-year old Joshua Applewhite asked for was paper and material to make a kite. Joshua and his mother, Ingrid Applewhite, had been living in a savannah at...
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