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Futsal men off to Costa Rica
T&T’s National Futsal team is scheduled to leave for San Jose, Costa Rica today to engage in two warm-up matches against Costa Rica ahead of their CONCACAF playoff qualifying tie with Honduras on...
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Disrespectful: ICC Slams WI conduct after WT20 victory
Cricket’s governing body the International Cricket Council (ICC) took the unusual step yesterday of publicly criticising the West Indies team for its conduct after the team won the World Twenty20...
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Support builds for pardon proposal
Rosemarie SantGML ENTERPRISE DESKThe Law Association has signalled its support of a petition from the Catholic Church to pardon hundreds of remand prisoners who have been in jail without trial for...
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Man killed in alcohol-fuelled argument
One man was killed and another critically injured in a shooting incident in San Fernando yesterday.The dead man was identified as Guyanese national Kemraj Persad, 30, a construction worker, of...
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Ballistic report before Homicide Bureau
A forensic ballistic report done on the weapon which killed PC Govindra Ramroop at the Guapo Police Station five months ago is now under scrutiny by the Homicide Bureau.In an interview yesterday,...
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Nine matters sent to DPP
Nine investigations out of a total of 38 which were completed by the Integrity Commission in 2015 are now before the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), commission chairman Justice Zainool Hosein...
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Woman, 21, killed in Beetham crash
A 21-year-old hairdresser was killed in an early morning car accident on the Beetham highway yesterday. According to reports, around 4.30 am, Teniesha Mahabirsingh, of Bon Air Gardens, Arouca, was...
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Fired steelworkers demand severance payment
Pointedly wearing a red People’s National Movement (PNM)T-shirt, former ArcelorMittal port coordinator Joanette Pariag stood at the Point Lisas roundabout yesterday to send a clear message to Prime...
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BIR must clear severance payment
Director at Bhagwansingh Hardware & Steel Industry Ltd (BHSIL) Vinoo Ramoutar says while Central Trinidad Steel Ltd (Centrin) owes vacation and severance pay to its retrenched workforce, the...
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Remaining squatter houses torn down
Demolition crews from the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) returned to Thompson Gardens, Ste Madeleine, yesterday to tear down the remaining squatter houses. But while armed private security...
View ArticleWoman stabbed to death in bar brawl
Two murder suspects remained in police custody last night after being arrested following two fatal stabbings in Pasea, Tunapuna, and Cunupia between Sunday evening and yesterday morning. In the first...
View Article105 held, 8 stolen cars recovered
Police recovered seven stolen vehicles and arrested 105 people during an anti-crime operation in the Southern Division over the weekend.Several places in La Romaine, San Fernando, Pleasantville,...
View ArticleTCL moves from loss to profit
Less than a year after completing a major debt restructuring exercise, the Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) Group has recorded its highest revenue of $2.1 billion. Financial results just released by the group...
View ArticleFormer PM rejects calls for T&T trade boycott
Jamaica Opposition Leader Portia Simpson-Million has rejected calls for a boycott of goods and services from T&T over the alleged maltreatment of Jamaicans by immigration authorities at Piarco...
View ArticleCriminals are made, not born that way
The vision of youths running headfirst into a life of crime and civil disobedience is one that we see regularly on the media, is it a true reflection of the majority? One must admit that our society...
View ArticleThe root causes of crime
When the PNM first took office last year, their victory coincided in an upsurge of "gang activity" that was attributed to the honeymoon period granted to new administrations. As time went by however,...
View ArticleTax paradox
Paradoxically, we have become accustomed to government subsidised or sponsored everything without the high taxes that usually come with it. Taxes are meant to raise money for the State to provide...
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Pensioner, 80, shot in head
An 80-year-old Erin pensioner is clinging to life while awaiting surgery at the San Fernando General Hospital after she was accidentally shot in the head by a rookie police officer on Monday night.With...
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Carmona wants review of national award possession
President Anthony Carmona says the time may have come for a review of who holds the right to possess a national award when recipients of such awards die.He made the comment yesterday, after Group...
View ArticleProtective services demand cash
If the Government insists on paying backpay arrears to police officers in cash and bonds, police officers say they will, in turn, work in tranches. Speaking at a media briefing at the Police Service...
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