T&T top order fails after bowlers fightback
After the T&T Red Force bowlers fought back, the top order failed to deliver as Barbados Pride holds the advantage heading into day three today in round two of the West Indies Cricket Board...
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Perfect Start as Soca Warriors stuns Guatemala 2-1
Trinidad and Tobago’s senior men’s team made the perfect start to their 2018 World Cup qualifying quest with a spirited 2-1 victory over hosts Guatemala at the Estadio Mateo Flores on Friday night.The...
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Vasant unveils early treachery
Minutes after launching the slate for his newly-formed “Team Reconnect” at the Couva South Hall yesterday, Vasant Bharath raised concerns about the United National Congress’ (UNC) internal elections...
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Small buyers still feel Forex pinch
The half-a-billion United States dollars injected into the system by the Central Bank to ease the currency crisis in the country has already been used up by the business community. On October 29,...
View ArticleBeating Isis
Orin GordonEditor-in-ChiefWith exquisite bad timing, President Barack Obama declared, in an interview with ABC News early on Friday, that the US and its allies had contained Isis. Then Friday night’s...
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Rowley, Kamla send condolences
No Trinis have so far been reported injured or dead following Friday’s horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign and Caricom Affairs.The ministry...
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Paris tries to breathe again
As tends to happen in major cities after terrorist attacks, life in Paris yesterday morning continued almost as normal. Despite the recommendations by security forces that Parisians stay inside, the...
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Beetham Wastewater deal under review
The details of the billion-dollar Beetham Wastewater Treatment facility contract are currently being reviewed by the National Gas Company (NGC). In response to questions by the Sunday Guardian, NGC...
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ISIS pursuing Trini foothold
Criminologist Daurius Figueira is warning that T&T Muslims recruited by ISIS could be used to infiltrate and destabilise western countries, including those in Europe coping with an influx of...
View ArticleMan killed, 2 hurt in nightclub attack
A 28-year-old taxi driver who agreed to take two men to a nightclub in Port-of-Spain was ambushed and killed yesterday morning.According to police, Tyrike George, of Le Platte Village, Maraval, had...
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Blueprint for future attacks
T&T born UK-based terrorism expert Candyce Kelshall has warned that last Friday’s deadly Paris attack is the new blueprint for future terrorist attacks.The death toll stood at well over 100 from...
View ArticlePlayer shot while celebrating SSFL win
A 17-year-old student, who was out celebrating his team’s Secondary Schools’ Football League victory over St Benedict’s College, was wounded when a bar patron ran into the road and fired shots wildly...
View ArticleGood work, T&TEC
Last Saturday, I was at my mother's home in Barataria. It was a hot and humid afternoon when the electricity supply was interrupted around 1.50 pm.I waited anxiously for a few minutes but still no...
View ArticleTake heed of Prisons Commissioner’s plea
In viewing and listening to TV coverage of Prisons Commissioner Sterling Stewart’s emotional and brilliant speech at the funeral of his felled comrade, David Millette, I do hope that a message and plea...
View ArticleSociety needs to de-escalate the aggression
The society has to make up its mind how it wants to deal with crime. On the one hand there are calls from significant segments that we should give prisons officers guns to protect themselves, as well...
View ArticleUNC back to square one
The United National Congress, and the myriad of political parties that preceded it, have all carried within them one fundamental flaw—the party was always molded by its leader, as opposed to the PNM,...
View ArticleKamla must promote free, fair elections
Kamla Persad-Bissessar must do more to reassure the country that the UNC internal election will be free and fair.There are still persistent reports that the electoral list is not available to...
View ArticlePromoting rum culture a no-no
Have the Advertising Agencies Association of T&T, Arrive Alive and concerned citizens paid any attention to an advertisement that is urging its customers and potential customers to “make your...
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Hit by truck, crushed by passing cars
A 25-year-old Chaguanas man yesterday survived an accident after his van slammed into a median near Grand Bazaar, Valsayn but as he emerged from the wreck he was hit by a truck.Seconds later, another...
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89 Trinis join Isis fighters
There are now 89 T&T nationals—including families—known to Government who have joined the Islamic State of Iraq (Isis) in the last three plus years, T&T Guardian has confirmed.That is the most...
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