David ready for new chapter
Trinidad and Tobago defender Aubrey David is preparing for a new move in his professional career after signing a new one-year deal with CONCACAF and Costa Rica club giants Deportivo Saprissa.David was...
View ArticleKumar finishes fourth in Orange Bowl
National junior golfer Sachin Kumar playing in the Junior Orange Bowl golf tournament against some of the top junior golfers in the world, held his nerve on the last day to finish tied fourth at the...
View ArticleTSTT averts licensing fiasco
The Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago’s (TSTT) avoided the embarrassing prospect of one of the country’s largest state companies being unlicensed, and therefore, technically, an...
View ArticleMixed fortunes
Alphonse Karr was a French wit and editor who gave the world an epigram that has become part of the lexicon of the cynical observer: “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” which loosely translates...
View ArticleMan gunned down in Gasparillo
Valdeen Shears-Neptune A 17-month-old baby boy lost his father yesterday after gunmen ran into their Gasparillo home and shot the man five times. Dead is 27-year-old Anthony Kevin Bissessar of Altima...
View ArticleReviewing the situation
This was going to be one of those “year in review” efforts, you know: hottest year in recorded history; more refugees in Europe since the end of World War 2; Isis escalates terrorism faster than gas...
View ArticleWalking into Alta’s light
Walk Through That Door “You’re old,” were the words that were said to me Delivered in mocking hateTo confuse and hurt and to deeply disturbMy newly-retired state.“But what are words worth?” the poet...
View ArticleMixed reactions to PM’s address
Coming public panic and desperation, devalued back pay dollars for public servants and fears of a return of the 1986 recession. These were some of the responses the T&T Guardian got from...
View ArticleEat and be happy
Review by Kevin BaldeosinghI am an omnivorous omnivore reader. Even so, when I went searching on the Internet for a scientifically rigorous book on diet and exercise, I found only three that were up to...
View ArticleThe year of living
The year 2015 began for me on the porch of a cottage by the sea in Buccoo with a bottle of liquid that could barely be described as “bubbly.” Tobago has never been a destination for wine connoisseurs,...
View ArticleImbert defends private sector housing arrangement
GML ENTERPRISE DESKActing Prime Minister, Finance Minister Colm Imbert says that The Government wants to enter into an arrangement with the private sector to build houses “to help stimulate economic...
View ArticleKamla slams Rowley recovery plans
The Governemnt’s intention to split and utilise a portion of the multi-billion Heritage and Stabilsation Fund is a cause for concern to the Opposition. In a statement yesterday Opposition leader Kamla...
View ArticleSuccessful surgery for shot footballer
National midfielder Keron Cummings underwent a successful surgery yesterday at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital and doctors believe he should be able to return to the playing field in ten...
View ArticlePensioner killed and dumped in canefield
Less than 24 hours after he went missing, the body of Couva pensioner Ramsaran Maharaj was found yesterday dumped in an old canefield road in Phoenix Park, California, battered and sodomised with a...
View ArticleBlast at PowerGen knocks out power
An explosion rocked the PowerGen plant in Port-of-Spain yesterday, knocking out power across northern Trinidad, Chaguanas and environs. Employees at the plant were immediately evacuated. No one was...
View ArticleMinistry ends use of PBR by private users in 2016
Motorists who have grown accustomed using the Priority Bus Route (PBR) as an alternative route to and from Port-of-Spain will no longer have that opportunity in the new year.The Ministry of Works and...
View ArticleBandits target bars with games in ‘Rio’
In the past month three bars in the Rio Claro area were robbed. Police said in each case patrons and proprietors were beaten. This string of crimes has triggered the police to issue a warning to bar...
View ArticleBusiness groups praise Rowley address
Only time will tell if the Government’s splitting the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) into two funds will succeed, said Ravi Suryadevara, President of the American Chamber of Industry and...
View ArticleT&T chamber urges caution on HSF
The T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce (TTCIC) is concerned about the planned withdrawal of US$1B from the “rainy day” fund which is part of the Heritage and Stabilization Fund in order to...
View ArticleTTNGL jumps $0.42
Overall market activity resulted from trading in 12 securities of which seven advanced, two declined and three traded firm. JMMB was the volume leader with 190,148 shares changing hands for a value of...
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