Chaguanas North, Scarborough keep win streaks intact
Chaguanas North and Scarborough Secondary remained the lone teams still with 100 per cent winning records when matches in the BG T&T/First Citizens Secondary Football League Championship Division...
View ArticlePrisons opens gap atop Championship Div
T&T Prisons opened a two-points lead at the top of the CNG National Super League Championship Division after a 3-1 whipping of Malabar FC at the D’Abadie Recreation Ground, Arouca on...
View ArticleTigers ends Naps unbeaten run
Haile Beckles got the lone goal with two minutes left on the clock as St Anthony’s College ended defending champions Naparima College unbeaten run at six matches to start the 2015 BGTT/First Citizens...
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Calypso Spikers in Continental fifth place semis
T&T senior women's volleyballers will be hoping to end a three-match losing skid when they compete in the fifth to eight place semifinal play-off of the 24th NORCECA Continental Championship...
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Time to target the real bad guys
From my balcony the scent of flowering plants wafts up from the courtyard below. I’m amazed my sense of smell has returned after days of Parisian flu. I stick my head out to soak up the late September...
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Soca legend McIntosh gets Sunshine honour
Among this year’s honorees for Sunshine Awards Hall of Fame, which will be held on October 3 in Manhattan, is the legendary soca music arranger and keyboardist Frankie McIntosh. Since the mid-1970s,...
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Beyond the Lullaby
He knew it was a set up from the moment we handed him into the arms of the nursery assistant. I’m sure an eight-month-old baby has no concept of abandonment, betrayal or separation but, as he turned...
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The enduring Donaldson legacy
Most would have seen the name, John S Donaldson, inscribed in letters large on a fairly large building on Wrightson Road in Port-of-Spain. In recent times that name has been subsumed, relegating “John...
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From despair to success
As Alta continues annual student registration at classes across Trinidad, we rally our readers to share the message of our anti-stigma campaign: No shame. Go brave. You can read. Students who benefited...
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Unidentified body found floating in river
Southern division police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying a body found floating in the Usine pond in Ste Madeline early this morning. The body was that of an East Indian woman,...
View ArticleTwo cineplexes not paying up
Valdeen Shears-NeptuneThe Copyright Organisation of T&T (COTT) says it is unable to pay royalties to artistes whose music is played in movies because of unpaid licence fees from T&T’s two major...
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Vagrants recycling in Sando
Assistant Police Commissioner in charge of South, Cecil Santana, said vagrants were being recycled in the southern city and has called on mayor Kazim Hosein to help address the social issue.Santana’s...
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Stop use of State vehicles by MPs
Attorney Subhas Panday is calling on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley not to allow ministers to use state vehicles as their personal vehicles, estimating it will save government $29 million annually. He...
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Teachers locked out
Teachers protesting for the speedy re-opening of the Rousillac Hindu Primary School were locked out of their temporary accommodation yesterday.According to reports, the group of teachers returned to...
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$2,000 fine for eating protected snake
A 27-year-old man was arrested and charged with having a dead boa constrictor snake and the skin from another.The man, who is believed to be a gardener, was caught with two dead boa constrictor snakes...
View ArticleT&T not in crisis
A Central Bank report about two per cent negative growth in the T&T for the year so far should come as no surprise, says Anya Schnoor, managing director of Scotiabank T&T Ltd.Schnoor,...
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Chamber welcomes relocation of Agriculture Ministry
President of the Chaguanas Chamber of Industry and Commerce Richie Sookhai is happy about the decision by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to relocate the Ministry of Agriculture to Chaguanas in a new...
View ArticlePublic must demand more, expect best service
A few weeks ago I was issued a ticket under the Motor Vehicles Act for operating a handheld device while driving. It’s a strict liability offence so notwithstanding my reason for being on the phone, I...
View ArticleDeal with NIS, high food prices, Mr Imbert
Mr Finance Minister, I think that something has to be wrong with a system in which, having made the 750 contributions required to receive full pension from the National Insurance Scheme, one does not...
View ArticleLaws need to control access to wildlife
Yesterday marked the start of the hunting season after a two-year ban was implemented. Unfortunately, the season is opening without the structures in place to sustain wildlife. At this time of the year...
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