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Acid attacker still on the run
After two days of combing San Fernando for a La Romaine man wanted in connection with dousing a mother of three with acid, Southern Division police are now seeking the assistance of the public in...
View ArticleCouple in suicide pact over mounting debt
Unable to repay thousands of dollars in debt, Couva couple Ralph Buchoon and Yvonne Arjoon, decided to commit suicide together on Sunday evening.However, minutes after ingesting a weedicide, paraquat,...
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Bringing back life to obsolete computers
Like everything else, computers have a life span. When that time is up, most people take the machines to the dump and upgrade to newer models. But Restore a Sense of I Can (RSC), a non-profit...
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Rats, snakes in classes so parents say: Hand over new school building
Angry parents and students of the Penal/Quinam Government Primary school staged a protest yesterday, calling on the Education Ministry to open their new school building.From around 7 am yesterday,...
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ANSA McAL places bid for ORTT on eBay
The ANSA McAL group has placed a $25,000 bid for the 18-carat Order of the Republic of T&T (ORTT) medal awarded to trade unionist Adrian Cola Rienzi, which is now up for sale on eBay. The group’s...
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ANSA McAL brings Rienzi medal home
The ANSA McAL Group is bringing trade union leader Adrian Cola Rienzi’s Order of the Republic of T&T (ORTT) medal back home, after its bid on the e-commerce website, eBay, was accepted...
View ArticleNow Cazabon book on auction for US$25,000
After waiting over two years for the Government of T&T to purchase her original copy of Michel Jean Cazabon’s Book of Trinidad 1837, Karen Glubis has put it up for sale on eBay for US$25,000.This...
View ArticleSale offer ‘a trap’—Abdulah
Amidst rumours that the management of ArcelorMittal has offered to sell the Government the Trinidad leg of their operations for $1, economist David Abdulah says the offer may be a trap.In an interview...
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Land grabbing in Claxton Bay
Several people who own land along Southern Main Road, Claxton Bay, claim they are being bullied by men who continuously change their locks and put up ‘No Trespassing’ signs in front of their buildings,...
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Glimmer of hope for steel workers
A glimmer of hope for 644 former workers of ArcelorMittal as Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus agreed yesterday to take their suggestions to keep the plant running to the Prime Minister for...
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Landfill fire forces school to close
The Springvale Hindu Primary School was closed this morning, as smoke from ongoing fires at the Forres Park landfill blanketed the community. According to reports, around 8.45 am, shortly after school...
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Burning dump leads to cancelled classes
Claxton Bay residents are planning to start a petition to take to the Government calling for the Forres Park dump to be relocated.Yesterday, smog from an ongoing fire at the dump caused the principal...
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Accused acid attacker still on loose
Almost a month after a woman was doused with acid and forced to drink some of the corrosive liquid, her attacker remains on the run.On February 22, Rachel Chadee was attacked at her La Romaine home by...
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ArcelorMittal ‘not interested’ in union’s offer
After finding two investors willing to purchase ArcelorMittal’s steel plant in T&T, the Steel Workers Union of T&T (SWUTT) was shut down before their bid even reached the drawing table. In an...
View ArticleUnion’s bid to buy steel plant shot down
The Steel Workers Union of T&T (SWUTT) says it has found two private investors, one local and one international, to purchase ArcelorMittal’s Point Lisas steel plant but those efforts may have been...
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Sando mayor admits: Some unaware they have Zika
San Fernando Mayor Kazim Hosein says there may be a lot more than seven people in Trinidad with the Zika virus as he says many people have the virus and did not know. He said so during the San Fernando...
View ArticleChicken farm facing closure
Chicken farmers in Tableland and New Grant have started shutting down operations because of a severe water shortage.This is as inadequate rainfall and dwindling water supplies have forced the Water and...
View ArticleSentencing postponed for fleeing drunk driver
Anthony Ackee, the man who racked up eight charges after he failed to stop while driving under the influence of alcohol in February, will be sentenced by a San Fernando magistrate on April 8.According...
View ArticleMan, 53, charged with rape of girl, 12
A Penal contractor charged with raping a 12-year-old girl was granted $100,000 bail when he appeared in the Siparia Magistrates Court yesterday. Tyrone Jagessar, 53, of Rochard Road, Penal, appeared...
View ArticleNeighbour in court for schoolboy’s murder
Nine days after the charred remains of schoolboy Darian Nedd was found in the burnt out shell of his home, one of his neighbours appeared in the Siparia Magistrates Court charged with his murder.Roger...
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