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Kamla: UNC lawyers creating database on job loss
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the opposition’s team of attorneys will be compiling a database of job losses under the PNM Government.Persad-Bissessar addressed the issue of Housing...
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Too many disputes end in violence
A High Court judge says that citizens in this country are far too often resorting to violence to resolve disputes.“What is it that makes you behave violently in a situation?” Justice Maria Wilson...
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Recovering addict spared jail after cutlass attack
A Penal man who admitted to having a drug and alcohol abuse problem was ordered to pay $25,000 to his sister-in-law yesterday for chopping her in October, 2007.Errol McIntyre, 52, of Penal Rock Road,...
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Santa’s surprise visit to brain surgery patient
Recovering brain surgery patient Suzanne Harripersad had a special visitor, yesterday, at the San Fernando General Hospital.While many were at home opening their presents and sharing memories over...
View ArticleBandits strike family on Christmas Eve
A Marabella family of ten was terrorised on Christmas Eve when three bandits entered their home, robbing them of cash, cellphones and a rented Nissan Tiida sedan.According to reports, around 11.30 pm,...
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Marabella man shot by stray bullet
A run to get ham for a friend almost cost one Marabella man his life on Boxing night.Dixon Richards, 22, was liming at a neighbour’s home on Bay Road Marabella around 8 pm on Boxing night when he left...
View Article4 men on $80,000 robbery charges
Four young men were denied bail yesterday when they appeared in court for allegedly robbing two people at gunpoint a few days before Christmas.Donny Edwards, Akinda Reid, Kion Paul and Devon Raymond...
View ArticleStressed out father turns to cocaine for comfort
Stressed out by his loan payments and by his efforts to assist his pregnant, newly-wed daughter start her home, William Gunness fell into his old habit of using cocaine.Yesterday, Gunness was ordered...
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Wheelchair worries at San Fernando court
Lynette Alexis Henry has been attending the San Fernando Magistrates Court for over 18 months to say why her son, whose bail she stood, did not attend his court date.However, for Henry, 62, the trips...
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Lucky seven New Year’s babies at Sando
Seven babies were born at the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) on New Year’s day.The first baby, a girl, was born at 1.55 am to Trisha Bridgemohan.Speaking to reporters at her bedside yesterday,...
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Old Year’s murder in Siparia
As a tradition, every Old Year’s night, Zwade Taylor would leave his Sudama Alley home and venture a short distance away to his brother’s home to ring in the New Year surrounded by family.But on...
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Truck driver charged with 3-year-old child’s death
Two days after the family of accident victim Ravindra Gattoo marked the first anniversary of his death, Southern Division police arrested and charged truck driver Reynold Boodlal with causing the...
View ArticleLate certificate causes hiccup in ex-cop’s funeral
The family of a retired police inspector who was a suspected case of H1N1 (swine flu), yesterday had to postpone his funeral because they did not get his death certificate in time.Grieving widow Nazmin...
View ArticleSwine flu scare... ‘Don’t capitalise on fear of citizens’
While news of the fifth confirmed H1N1 (swine flu) death swept the country yesterday, there has been a call for companies and medical institutions not to capitalise on the fear of citizens.This comes...
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Robbers set fire to Siparia warehouse
When burglars at a warehouse in Siparia failed to steal hundreds of thousands dollars in goods early Sunday, they then set the building on fire, causing more than $2M in damage.According to reports,...
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Nobby pushes right buttons at Kaiso Showcase
Calypsonian Carl “Nobby” Barrington stole the show at the opening of the Kaiso Showkase 2016 on Friday night with his composition, Marriage Advice.Barrington and 22 other calypsonians performed at the...
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Man escapes police custody at the San Fernando Magistrate's court
A man who had just been sentenced to three years hard labour ran out of the San Fernando Magistrates Court today, moments before officers could put handcuffs on him. Russel Thomas and his twin brother...
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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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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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Credit union sector can’t have two masters
Although Labour and Small Enterprise Development Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus says her Government will listen to the views and concerns of the Credit Union Co-operative Society on reviewing...
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