Two in court on car theft charges
Sascha WilsonPublished: Friday, February 17, 2017An Arima mechanic and a Sangre Grande labourer accused of stealing vehicles from the San Fernando district were remanded into custody yesterday to...
View ArticleWe’re working with NCC
Anna-Lisa PaulPublished: Friday, February 17, 2017Tuco at Calypso Fiesta draw:The Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation (Tuco) says they will continue to work with the National Carnival...
View ArticleCash bail laws coming—AG
Published: Friday, February 17, 2017Government proposes to make it easier for over 1,000 remand inmates to be released on bail by cash and cheque deposits.Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi, speaking at...
View ArticleWASA: Drinking water safe
Gail AlexanderPublished: Friday, February 17, 2017No lead contamination of Caroni Treatment PlantThe water supply from the Caroni and other water treatment plants meet World Health Organization (WHO)...
View ArticleCabinet gets draft plan on gender violence
Rosemarie SantPublished: Friday, February 17, 2017Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister for Gender and Child Affairs, Ayanna Webster-Roy, says a draft national action plan on...
View ArticleMore pressure for Balgobin
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Friday, February 17, 2017Anya joins sexual harassment protestLocal fashioner designer Anya Ayoung Chee yesterday joined Angostura Limited workers in a protest outside the...
View ArticleCareful steps on Cybercrime Bill
Published: Friday, February 17, 2017Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s recent pronouncement of an intention to amend the Cybercrime Bill to deal with social media abusers has brought the country to...
View ArticleNo need for CLF agreement—shareholder
Gail AlexanderPublished: Saturday, February 18, 2017There’s no need for an extension of the CL Financial (CLF)shareholders’ agreement with Government since shareholders have presented Government with a...
View ArticleHilaire: Competition driving bank fees, rates
Published: Saturday, February 18, 2017Central Bank Governor Dr Alvin Hilaire says the existing bank fees and interest rates on consumer loans are determined by competition in T&T. He said interest...
View ArticleRepublic sheds $1.99
Published: Saturday, February 18, 2017Overall market activity resulted from trading in 12 securities of which four advanced, two declined and six traded firm.Trading activity on the first tier market...
View ArticlePaying the price for inaction on landfills
Published: Saturday, February 18, 2017The hue and cry raised this week over lead leaching into water courses from the Guanapo landfill is a textbook example of too little, too late. No amount of haste...
View ArticleTOURISM SECTOR NEEDS A REBOOT
Paolo KernahanPublished: Saturday, February 18, 2017Tobago hoteliers are struggling to keep their heads above water. The Tobago Chamber of Commerce says arrivals have fallen from a high of 80 thousand...
View ArticleANY CARICOM SOLUTIONS ON FATCA...
Gail AlexanderPublished: Saturday, February 18, 2017The hint of what lay ahead in Monday’s Fatca legislation debate came the minute Opposition MP, Roodal Moonilal spoke.“This is the moment when we...
View ArticleMAN & CHILD: Wrestling with fighting
A parenting column by Kevin BaldeosinghPublished: Saturday, February 18, 2017It’s still not clear if an incident at a primary school in Mayaro, where a student got his arm broken, was a case of...
View ArticleRESPECTING ALL WOMEN
Published: Saturday, February 18, 2017YOUTH VIEWWe have had such an upsurge of abuse handed down to females over the past few years in T&T that it makes one wonder what has gone wrong that women...
View ArticleSTOP THE VIOLENCE AGAINST FEMALES
Published: Saturday, February 18, 2017We have been witnessing an increase in violence against women in the last few months, which is quite troubling. What will cause a man to physically harm a woman to...
View ArticleCaution over US terror backlash
Published: Sunday, February 19, 2017An article in today’s Sunday Guardian reporting that T&T nationals in the United States are feeling extreme anxiety as a result of the crackdown by the US...
View ArticleKNOW YOUR RIGHTS
Published: Sunday, February 19, 2017In order for us to grow as a society there must be informed discussions on everything that touches or will touch and concern our lives, our country’s economy,...
View ArticleTAKE T&T TOURISM OUT FRONT
Tony Rakhal-FraserPublished: Sunday, February 19, 2017Why is Tobago (far more so than Trinidad), an island of real beauty and potential to attract visitors, failing to earn a significant share of a...
View ArticlePORKONOMICS EXPLAINED
Published: Sunday, February 19, 2017Sahadeo Ragoonanan is one of those individuals who apparently have a second career writing letters to the editor, on issues ranging from trade unions to slavery to...
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