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Prisoner escapes after three-year sentence
After being sentenced to three years in jail for armed robbery, twin brothers Roston and Russel Thomas tried to make a dash for freedom from the San Fernando Fourth Magistrates’ Court yesterday....
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Fire reignites at WASA
Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs Stuart Young says files of interest were removed from WASA’s St Joseph office at the weekend but they were retrieved by the...
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Injured warden wants justice
Traffic Warden Mandisa Woods, 27, who was severely injured in an accident while on duty along Independence Square, Port-of-Spain, last Tuesday said she needs to get justice and is wondering why there...
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FirstCaribbean recovers from loss in 2014
Chairman of FirstCaribbean International Bank Limited David Ritch says 2015 was a year of recovery for the bank which achieved net income of US$98 million. He said this was “a significant improvement”...
View ArticleTime to end biases against marijuana
In the early 1900s there was an influx of immigration from Mexico into the USA. These Mexican immigrants brought with them the custom of using cannabis as a medicine and relaxant. They referred to it...
View ArticleMatt deals with sexual harassment
The Media Association of T&T seeks to correct inaccurate statements published in a letter to the editor, headlined, Different strokes from Matt, (T&T Guardian, Saturday, January 9, 2015). In...
View ArticleReducing backlog can reduce prison hostility
People of all walks of life viz. doctors, politicians, teachers, policemen etc, have been charged and convicted of various offences and have served terms of imprisonment in the nation’s prisons over...
View ArticleMake no mistake, latent prejudices run deep
Firstly, as professional to professional, Gayle as sportsman and Mel McLaughlin as journalist, Gayle’s personalising of the interview in the way he did amounts to a trespass. But if the one on the...
View ArticleRecognition to writers and producers long in coming
We are well into the Carnival season for 2016, a period when competitions in our artistic expressions are plentiful. Over the years monetary prizes have increase astronomically, until in recent times...
View ArticleOur people making a difference!
I recently visited Trinidad after having lived abroad for almost eight years. While living here, I was a student at the UWI St Augustine Campus for three years prior to having migrated to the United...
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Man murdered in Maracas
A 27-year-old Morvant man who sought refuge in the serene hills of Maracas Valley, St Joseph was hounded and murdered early this morning. According to police around 6.30 am residents of Waterfall Road...
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Court escapee surrenders himself to police
Russel Thomas, the man who ran out of the San Fernando Magistrates Court yesterday after being sentenced to three years hard labour for armed robbery, has surrendered himself to the police. The...
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Five-year-old boy drowns by sea wall
Police are investigating the death of a five-year-old boy who drowned at sea while playing near his home on Monday. Reports are that Tasari Mc Kenzie was at his Old Train Line, St Margaret’s home when...
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Prison Officer nabbed in attempted burglary
An early morning rooftop pursuit between two bandits and police officers has led to the arrest of one of the thieves, a 27-year-old Prison Officer. Around 1 am, a security guard attached to a furniture...
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Mother of man shot by cops: My son was murdered
Relatives of Stephan “Swell Teeth” St Louis yesterday admitted the 25-year-old father of four “lived the life” but was on Sunday murdered by men who vowed to uphold the law.Speaking with the media at...
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Baptism of fire for new LATT board
The installation of the Christopher John Williams-led board of Lake Asphalt (1978) Ltd (LATT) was greeted with hot protest by asphalt workers yesterday.As the newly-installed chairman was outlining his...
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PM: Aim is consumer power
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said each consumer in T&T had the power to choose what they placed in their food baskets. He was responding to questions about the food items removed from the...
View Article6 cops on ID parades after Central robberies
Officers of the Professional Standards Bureau were up to late yesterday holding identification parades in connection with a spate of robberies in central Trinidad.Six of these were police officers...
View ArticleMan hounded and killed in Maracas
Jason Thomas, who fled to the hills of Maracas Valley, St Joseph, was hounded by those seeking to end his life yesterday morning and was killed.The body of the 27-year-old man from Second Caledonia,...
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Bakr in court on summons charge
Attorneys representing the commission of enquiry (COE) into the 1990 attempted coup yesterday began prosecuting Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr for refusing to answer its summons to testify...
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