Rethink a dam on Moruga River
Frequent disruptions in public water supply, particularly in the south and south-western parts of Trinidad, make a compelling case for the construction of a dam, and an impoundment reservoir, on the...
View ArticleTraffic lights doing more harm than good
Traffic on Wrightson Road has always been slow. Somewhere between October 8 and October 13 something happened—the eastbound traffic got considerably worse. The eastbound traffic between the National...
View ArticleEstablish a culture of safety at sea
It’s happening too often. That untenable situation of fishermen being lost at sea for one reason or the other. At times it is necessary to save people from themselves. I think this is one instance. I...
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Cole putting Pres on map in cycling
Presentation College, Chaguanas is famous for producing numerous T&T and West Indies cricketers, but a young man by the name of Tyler Cole is putting the school on the map in another sport. Former...
View ArticleArmy retains SW Touring/THA Masters Football crown
WALTER ALIBEYDefence Force claimed their second straight title at the 5th Annual SW Touring/THA Tobago Invitational Masters (Over 40) Football Tournament which ended at the Plymouth Recreational...
View ArticleLewis treble keeps Paragon women perfect
Team captain Alanna Lewis scored a hat-trick to lead defending champions Paragon to an 8-5 come-from-behind triumph over Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) in the T&T Hockey Board Indoor Championship...
View ArticlePanel demands dissolution of WICB
KINGSTON—A report on the state of West Indies cricket is strongly recommending the immediate dissolution of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Cricket sources with knowledge of the The five member...
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Music meets environment in Galofre’s film A Better Place
BC Pires reviews A Better Place, the lead film in Sustain T&T’s 2015 Green Screen programmeYou’re not doing too shabbily, as a film-maker, if the strongest criticism of your film is that it should...
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Viva deadheads!
Truckin’ got my chips cashed in. Keep truckin’, like the do-dah man Together, more or less in line, just keep truckin’ on.Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street. Chicago, New York,...
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Find the right volunteer match
Volunteering can be a great experience, but the key is to find the right match for you. Like all matchmaking, finding your partner may take several tries. One approach is to treat finding your...
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Naipaulian tour: Trinidad’s first family of literature
“All of (Vidia) Naipaul’s work came from what (his father) Seepersad wrote,” said Prof Arnold Rampersad, Trinidadian Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, while delivering the feature address at...
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In Flanders fields
It was pure coincidence that T and I found ourselves motoring through Flanders fields a week before Remembrance Sunday. It was her birthday so we were on our way to the beautiful Belgian city of...
View ArticleDaytime TV host Wendy Williams succeeds by broadening appeal
Any fan of talk-show host Wendy Williams knows her signature question: “How you doin’?” in a thick New Jersey accent. Put it to her now and the answer has to be, “pretty well, thanks.” Williams is...
View ArticleClean-up begins at sex hideaway
Hours after a San Fernando schoolgirl was shot inside an alleged sex and drug den at San Fernando Street, San Fernando, mattresses and sheets were carted out of the antique house by Cepep workers....
View ArticleBusinessman among five held
A Chaguanas businessman was among five people held by police after they seized more than $6 million in marijuana and cocaine in central Trinidad on Wednesday night. The group, which included a...
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Police raid crime spots
It is the sign of things to come. That was the warning from head of the Port-of-Spain Division Senior Supt Johnny Abraham following an anti-crime exercise held in east Port of Spain yesterday. Warning...
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Dillon, prisons boss to meet again on demands
Communications Minister Maxie Cuffie says National Security Minister Edmund Dillon will meet again with Prisons Commissioner Sterling Stewart in an attempt to meet the demands of the officers. He said...
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Cop shot by cop ...while clearing gun at police station
Relatives of PC Govindra Ramroop, who was shot dead by one of his colleagues at the Guapo Police Station yesterday, wants stiff penalties against the offending officer, saying it was caused by...
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Julien back as UTT chairman
The PNM Government has reinstated Professor Kenneth Julien as head of the University of T&T (UTT) and also appointed NH International (Caribbean) executive chairman Emile Elias as chairman of the...
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Call for private sector to invest in farming
Head of the European Union delegation to the Eastern Caribbean countries—the OECS and Caricom—Mikael Barford says the private sector should have a major role in the investment of the farming industry....
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