Ragoonath: Don’t blame cricketers for lack of loyality
WALTER ALIBEY“Don’t blame or ridicule players for choosing to play T20 cricket instead of country” said Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the T&T Cricket Board Suruj Ragoonath. His call comes in the...
View ArticleMohammed to defend Caroni A title
Montrose United’s Issa Mohammed will put his title on the line when the Caroni Zone Table Tennis Association host its seventh annual tournament sponsored by Low Cost Supermarket, Southern Main Road,...
View ArticlePartap-Boodhan, Wilson top RSML ‘Super Singles’
Recent North Zone winner, Aaron Wilson of Carenage Balsters and Linda Partap-Boodhan played unbeaten to capture their respective men and women Open titles in the T&T Table-Tennis Association...
View ArticleTaylor leaves his mark on tennis
President Anthony Carmona was among those who attended the funeral service of former T&T tennis coach and umpire Carlos Taylor at the Covenant House of Praise in Diego Martin, yesterday.Carmona,...
View ArticleStay on Picket Line
Pivotal Dream and 7lbs apprentice, Charlie Bennett, team up again tonight when Mark Brisbourne’s charge races from stall one in the nursery handicap, over an extended mile of Wolverhampton...
View ArticleAn unfortunate lack of data
I discovered some very disappointing, yet unsurprising facts this week: there are no national statistics on the prevalence or incidence of falls in the elderly, nor any information on the costs...
View ArticleRed Force seeks relief in St Lucia
Allrounder Akeal Hosein has replaced left-arm spinner Kavesh Kantasingh as T&T Red Force seek success on the road when it faces Windward Islands Volcanoes in round five of the West Indies Cricket...
View ArticleNo pay, no play as Warriors out Haiti game
Trinidad and Tobago Soca Warriors have withdrawn their services for their next international match against Haiti. The team was carded to participate in the Copa América Centenario Berth match,...
View ArticlePlundered: Voges, Marsh put Windies to sword
HOBART—Rookie left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican shone briefly but West Indies bowlers were put to the sword as Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh pummelled unbeaten centuries in a triple-century partnership on...
View ArticleCabinet okays new law for naming CoP
Cabinet yesterday approved a new order changing the process for the appointment of a Commissioner of Police (CoP) which would be restricted to nationals.However, Opposition Leader Kamla...
View ArticleGonsalves sworn as PM
KINGSTOWN — The leader of the ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) Dr Ralph Gonsalves was sworn as Prime Minister of this Caribbean Community (Caricom) country yesterday even though Opposition supporters...
View ArticleGovt acquires Cazabon paintings
Government has acquired 12 original paintings done by the late T&T artist Michel Jean Cazabon at an auction in London.Communications Minister Maxie Cuffie, speaking at yesterday’s post-Cabinet...
View Article$4m award for quarry owner
The State has been ordered to pay over $4 million in compensation to a Valencia quarry operator whose fleet of vehicles were impounded for almost three years after he was cleared by police on suspicion...
View ArticleIt’s a yoke around our necks
Whether the continuing imposition of the death penalty which has not been carried out since 1999 continues to be a deterrent to capital offences was argued by Justice Frank Seepersad as he made a case...
View ArticleSpecial bond to raise funds
The Government has no money to pay public servants their arrears in salaries and backpay resulting from wage negotiations settled by the last People’s Partnership administration, Finance Minister Colm...
View ArticleNo data showing T&T in recession—Rowley
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says a claim by Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran that T&T is in a recession is now very contentious because there is no supporting data.Rowley made the comment...
View ArticleWoman’s body found stuffed in barrel
Homicide detectives are investigating the murder of a woman whose decomposing body was found stuffed in an oil drum in Curepe on Thursday. According to the reports, the grisly discovery was made by St...
View ArticleEnergy minister in shale gas blunder
Energy Minister Nicole Olivierre made a blooper in Parliament yesterday when she said the former People’s National Movement (PNM) administration signed an agreement with Cheniere Energy, “one of the...
View ArticleMan stabbed to death in domestic dispute
A 21-year-old Arima woman is now in police custody after stabbing her common-law husband to death during a domestic dispute, yesterday. The woman, from Bypass Road, Arima, told police that the argument...
View ArticleGuyanese national killed in El Socorro
Police are investigating the murder of a Guyanese national whose body was found in El Socorro, yesterday.According to a police report, at about 2 pm, Andrew Garraway, believed to be in his early 40s,...
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