Grieving girl attempts suicide
Grief-stricken over her mother’s suicide, a Barrackpore teenager tried to take her own life exactly one month after her mother’s death. According to a close relative, despite receiving counselling from...
View ArticleDana for Miss Globe 2015 pageant
A Standard Five teacher is T&T’s representative for the Miss Globe 2015 pageant. Dana De-Frence sat down for an interview with the T&T Guardian last week and spoke of her dreams of being...
View ArticleSecurity officers turn on boss over late pay
Police had to be called in yesterday to protect the owner of a security company, contracted by Brazilian construction firm, OAS Construtora, after over 50 disgruntled guards demanded their salaries.The...
View ArticleOpposition blames PNM for murder spike
Another double murder and another young couple killed by the gun.This time in crime hotspot of Enterprise, Chaguanas taking the murder toll, since the September 7 elections, to 23 in 13 days.Five...
View Article$100,000 reward offered to find missing woman
The relatives of San Fernando business woman, Carolyn Katwaroo, are offering a $100,000 reward for any information on her whereabouts, eight days after she disappeared. In a newspaper ad yesterday, the...
View ArticleWork set to resume on highway project today
Hundreds of OAS Construtora employees who stopped work on the Point Fortin Highway last week over health and safety concerns are expected to resume work today.So said Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union...
View ArticleDana for Miss Globe 2015 pageant
A Standard Five teacher is T&T’s representative for the Miss Globe 2015 pageant. Dana De-Frence sat down for an interview with the T&T Guardian last week and spoke of her dreams of being...
View ArticleConstable gets bail on ammo charge
A police constable with 15 years service was granted $40,000 bail when he appeared before a Princes Town magistrate charged with possession of ammunition yesterday. Ian Bishop, 36, of Naparima Mayaro,...
View ArticleSea Lots crash victim awarded $800,000
Almost three years after he was paralysed in an accident that claimed the lives of three other people, Sea Lots resident Ryan Rampersad has been awarded $800,000 in damages by the driver’s insurance...
View ArticleUnidentified body found floating in river
Southern division police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying a body found floating in the Usine pond in Ste Madeline early this morning. The body was that of an East Indian woman,...
View ArticleBody found floating in Ste Madeleine pond
Southern Division police are asking for the public’s assistance to identify a body found floating in the Usine Ste Madeleine pond early yesterday.The body was that of an East Indian woman, believed to...
View ArticleStop use of State vehicles by MPs
Attorney Subhas Panday is calling on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley not to allow ministers to use state vehicles as their personal vehicles, estimating it will save government $29 million annually. He...
View ArticleNo leads in death of woman found in pond
The woman found dead in the Usine Ste Madeline pond yesterday morning has been identified as Cheryl Mohammed.Mohammed, 55, lived at Peter Street, La Romaine.Her body was identified by relatives last...
View ArticleCops foil robbery at Sando grocery... shoots one robber
One man is in hospital nursing a gunshot wound and the other in in police custody after police foiled a daylight robbery in Palmyra yesterday. According to reports around 5 pm yesterday Southern...
View ArticleVendor charged with assaulting licensing officer
A Princes Town vendor was remanded into custody on seven charges in relation to the alleged assault of a licensing officer when he appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court on Monday. Marlon...
View ArticleHow did my mother die?
The son of a La Romaine woman who was found floating in the Usine St Madeleine Pond, one week ago, is calling on the man who last saw her alive to tell her family how she died.Anil Mohammed told the...
View ArticleRekha Ramjit is new ILP leader
Attorney Rekha Ramjit has been elected as the new political leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP).The party held elections yesterday, with seven polling stations across T&T, to select a new...
View ArticleAccused fraud denied bail...faints in court
A 53 year-old Couva man collapsed in court this morning after being denied bail. Pooran Sookdeo, of Exchange Estate, Couva, appeared before Deputy Chief Magistrate Mark Wellington in the San Fernando...
View ArticlePrisoner collapses after bail denied
An ambulance was summoned to the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court yesterday after a 53-year-old prisoner on five fraud charges collapsed after he was denied bail.Pooran Sookdeo, of Exchange Estate,...
View ArticleBail for couple in ganja charges
A British national and her husband were granted bail in the sum of $125,000 each when they appeared in court charged with possession of marijuana and ammunition.Nigel and Andrea Lloyd, of Caratal Road,...
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