Baptist Archbishop begs for Mahabir’s release
The Spiritual Shouter Baptist community is calling on the kidnappers of Couva school teacher Keston Mahabir to release him safely. Speaking at Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day celebrations...
View ArticleNew anti-terrorist legislation soon—Al-Rawi
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi says his office will be laying new legislation in Parliament soon to deal with foreign terrorist fighters and propose amendments to the current anti-terrorism...
View ArticleSpiritual Shouter Baptists want home in city: Give us a cathedral
People’s National Movement (PNM) Senator Foster Cummings, a Spiritual Shouter Baptist, yesterday called for the Baptist community to be given its own cathedral in Port-of-Spain.Joining in the...
View ArticleSando man shot in arm
A San Fernando man is warded in the hospital after being shot whilst liming at a bar in San Fernando yesterday morning.Police reports state that around 6.20 am, Shamba Lewis, 31, of Roy Joseph Scheme,...
View ArticleFive-year-old killed by cyclist: Family mourns for little Jaden
All five-year-old Jaden Cudjoe wanted on Saturday evening was a “sweetie.” But the trip to a nearby mini mart for the sweet treat eventually cost the youngster his life, as he was struck by a...
View ArticleCop shot in head
A police officer is currently receiving treatment at the San Fernando General Hospital after being shot in the head tonight.According to police, around 8.40 pm officers of the Ste Madeliene Police...
View ArticleMan shot 8 times by off-duty cop
The father of a man shot eight times by an off-duty police officer at a gas station on Sunday night is calling for the Commissioner of Police to launch an investigation into the incident.Franky Lewis,...
View ArticleNo early pension payouts for upset ex-Mittal workers
Frustrated ArcelorMittal’s former workers who were hoping to take an early retirement and cash in on their pension plans to help pay their bills no longer have that option.This was the message an...
View ArticleThere will be no repeat of ArcelorMittal
Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus says the appointment of a liquidator for ArcelorMittal’s assets in T&T means there is nothing more the Government can do for over 600 former workers of the...
View ArticleCops told: Keep suspects’ photos off Facebook
With photos of two suspects reportedly involved in the shooting of PC Anson Benjamin circulating on Facebook, head of Southern Division CID Insp Don Gajadhar is calling on police officers to be more...
View ArticleUnemployed hopeful after job expo
Although over 60 different private companies offered jobs at the Ministry of Labour’s Job Fair on Tuesday, retrenched workers are finding it difficult to find vacancies in their own fields. The Fair...
View ArticleBaby, toddler burnt in ‘arson attack’
A nine-month-old baby girl is in critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in hospital after she and her four-year-old brother received third degree burns when their home was gutted by fire...
View ArticleNo CCTV footage of police shooting
Police Complaints Authority (PCA) head David West says the authority has to rely on witness statements to determine the outcome of an investigation of a shooting by an off-duty police officer two weeks...
View ArticleForgive officer who killed pensioner, 80
“Pray for the police.”This was the advice given to the grieving family members of Sona Lalloo at her funeral service yesterday. Lalloo, 80, succumbed to her injuries hours after she was shot in the...
View ArticleCentrin worker’s funeral delayed
Confused, frustrated and heartbroken is how Chandrawatie Nandlal, the common-law wife of former Centrin worker David Francis, says her family feels after a High Court injunction was granted late Friday...
View ArticleThree murdered in South overnight
Three men were killed in separate incidents in South Trinidad between Saturday night and yesterday morning. They have been identified as Collin Mitchell, 52, Dixon Richards, 23 and Kirk Veronique, 25....
View ArticleProtest at Shore of Peace
Residents of Oropouche and councillors from the Siparia Regional Corporation braved heavy rains yesterday to ensure that cremations continue at the Shore of Peace.A group of about 50 people gathered at...
View ArticleBar patrons ‘went too far’
Eight days after being beaten during a robbery at a Claxton Bay bar, Curtis Pierre, 16, succumbed to his injuries at the Intensive Care Unit of the San Fernando General Hospital.Pierre was one of two...
View ArticleFormer highway workers in dark
Retrenched OAS Construtora employees are calling on the company to break their silence over retroactive salaries and severance pay. Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union shop steward and former safety...
View ArticleUnion calls on minister to help save buffalypso
The All Trinidad General Workers Trade Union (ATGWTU) is calling on Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat to investigate issues affecting workers at the Mora Valley Farm and the Sugarcane Feed...
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