MSJ head: Rambarran playing ‘populist’
Leader of the Movement for Social Justice David Abdulah is calling for Governor of the Central Bank Jwala Rambarran to go. Abdulah made the call at a press conference at the party’s St Joseph Village,...
View ArticleState ‘advanced’ towards action
The Government is remaining tight-lipped on its next move concerning Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran and whether it can continue to work with him following Prime Minister Keith Rowley’s stinging...
View ArticleCar plunges into river
A Chaguanas man died yesterday after the car in which he was an occupant ran off the Uriah Butler Highway and crashed into the cable barrier at the Guayamare River. Police identified him as Clyde...
View ArticleBrothers slam into pickup on M2 Ring Rd
Hansraj Roopnarine, 47, of Endeavour, Chaguanas, died on the spot yesterday when the Mitsubishi Lancer, driven by his brother, Roland Roopnarine, slammed into a pickup truck on the M2 Ring Road in...
View ArticleFormer PNM finance minister: Declare reason to fire Jwala
The Government must declare its reasons if it wants to fire the Central Bank Governor says former finance minister Conrad Enill. He added that the governor and the Government cannot be at loggerheads...
View ArticleTwo more murders, toll reaches 396
A few footsteps away from where Roger Romaine was shot dead in May, the man accused by relatives of killing him was shot dead yesterday morning. Micheal Matthews, 57, of Fazal Avenue, Penal, was gunned...
View ArticleMore than a sno-cone man
Wesley Basdeo pedals his bicycle cart slowly through the quiet streets of Felicity every day, except Saturdays. An indelible part of the area’s daily life, villagers call him “sno-cone man.”Basdeo, 38,...
View ArticleLet retrenched ArcelorMittal workers operate Point Lisas plant—Abdulah
Leader of the Movement for Social Justice David Abdulah is suggesting that workers who were retrenched by steel giant ArcelorMittal last week be allowed to operate the manufacturing plant in Point...
View ArticleParang in the 21st century
My name is Stanley Jennings and I am a parrandero. But when I’m onstage, my sobriquet is Albertos Alvarales Consuelo. Stanley Jennings is mellow. But Albertos is cocky.I’m born and raised in the West...
View ArticlePolice powers of search, seizure
Darius Emrith Student, Hugh Wooding Law SchoolThere are two circumstances where a police officer’s powers of search and seizure may arise: (i) in effecting an arrest; and (ii) in effecting a search...
View ArticleILO warns of increased unemployment
In 2015, the unemployment rate in Latin America and the Caribbean increased for the first time in five years to 6.7 per cent, causing at least 1.7 million people to join the ranks of the unemployed,...
View ArticleILO, Cipriani College renew agreement
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has extended its collaboration with the Cipriani College of Labour and Co-operative Studies (CCLCS) for a further three-year period.Last week, the ILO...
View ArticleRBL is Caribbean Bank of the Year
Leading international banking and finance publication LatinFinance has named Republic Bank Limited (RBL), Bank of the Year-Caribbean 2015. Published from New York and Miami, with a network of...
View ArticleWarriors to be paid after TTFA board meeting
A decision by new president David John-Williams to allow the board of directors to sit on the matter of the payments of match fees to players for the Guatemala and USA World Cup Qualifiers may have...
View ArticleOttley 99 as Red Force flourishes
GROS ISLET—Yannick Ottley agonisingly missed out on his maiden first class hundred as he led a gallant Trinidad and Tobago Red Force batting display on the penultimate day of their fifth round game...
View ArticleVan Dyke to go one better
Van Dyke and Liam Keniry team up again when Hughie Morrison’s charge attempts to go one better, and make it third time lucky, in the Maiden Stakes over an extended nine furlongs of Wolverhampton Tapeta...
View ArticleMc Leod looks to deal with absent clubs
Joseph Mc Leod, president of the Amateur Swimming Association of T&T, has said that among some major amendments to the constitution he will be lobbying for at the general council meetings, will be...
View ArticleWilliams hat-trick inspires 5-0 Connection rout
Jomal Williams scored a hat-trick on Saturday night as W Connection blasted St Ann’s Rangers 5-0 at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Balmain, Couva.The win moved Connection three spots up the Digicel Pro...
View ArticleWindies loss—bitter pill to swallow
Abject, disappointing, disheartening, dispiriting, depressing, second-rated, pathetic, lame, pitiful, disastrous and substandard. These are just some of the adjectives to describe the West Indies...
View ArticleCop among two killed in Aranguez
A police constable and another man were gunned down this morning along the Aranguez Main Road. Police investigators are currently on the scene. According to a police report, at about 5.30 am the...
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