Constant media attack against PNM leader
General Secretary of the People’s National Movement Ashton Ford says in the five years Dr Keith Rowley has been Opposition Leader, he has faced more attacks in newspaper editorials than the Prime...
View ArticleThreat of arrest for absent employer
Petrotrin’s vice-president of human resources Keith Ramnath could be arrested if he fails to appear in court in November 13 to answer a charge of unfairly dismissing Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union...
View ArticleLicks for Cops
Two weeks after her daughter shot her prisons officer husband Robert Seecharan dead, Sherry-Ann Seecharan took her own life by ingesting a poisonous substance at her sister’s home in Barrackpore. Her...
View ArticlePM: Jack no threat in Chaguanas East
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Jack Warner’s decision to contest the Chaguanas East constituency will not affect her party’s decision about a candidate or have an outcome on the United...
View ArticleStage collapses at Children's Hospital
Heavy winds and torrential rains caused a stage set up for the formal opening of the Children's Hospital, in Couva to collapse. There were no immediate reports of any injuries and the function was...
View ArticleStage collapses at Children's Hospital
Heavy winds and torrential rains caused a stage set up for the formal opening of the Children's Hospital, in Couva to collapse. There were no immediate reports of any injuries and the function was...
View ArticleScamper off stage as tent collapses
The commissioning of the Children’s Hospital almost turned into tragedy yesterday as almost 200 people, including 45 children, had to make a dash for safety as the canopy covering the ceremonial stage...
View ArticleJamaican guards fined for no work permits
Caricom leaders are failing their people by excluding the lower section of society from working and travelling freely among Caricom nations. So said defence attorney Subhas Panday in a plea for...
View ArticleFour teens in court on sex charges
Three of four teenagers accused of sexually penetrating a child under the age of 18 and sexually touching a child under 16 were granted bail when they appeared before a San Fernando magistrate...
View ArticleTears as thief gets one year in jail
A Debe man wept as he was sentenced to one year in jail yesterday for breaking and entering a house and stealing $10,000 worth of jewelry. Shairo Khan, 21, pleaded guilty to the charge when he came...
View ArticleUNC’s Bodoe: Cuts in health to pay for PNM’s rapid rail
If the PNM is elected into office on September 7, they will cut funding to the health sector to finance their $60 billion dollar rapid rail project. That was the warning from former chairman of the...
View ArticleMissing man’s mother makes appeal on Facebook
Six months after Southern fashion designer Kirby Mohammed disappeared without a trace, his mother made an emotional social media plea for his captors to return him regardless of his condition. Linda...
View ArticleFour murders mar holiday weekend
As the nation celebrated its 53rd anniversary of independence, the families of four men who were killed yesterday were in mourning.While police did not release the identities of two victims whose...
View ArticleThree road fatalities on holiday weekend
Two men died in separate accidents in the Eastern Division over the weekend.Police said Kenson Humphrey, of Rio Claro was killed after crashing his Nissan Almera into an electricity pole along the M2...
View ArticleTake evidence to police
“Take your evidence to the police.”That’s the advice of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in response to claims by Opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley that an employee in the Office of the Prime...
View ArticleMayaro gets ‘hurricane-proof’ fire station
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar opened the newly constructed Mayaro Fire Station on Sunday, one week before the country faces the polls to choose a government that will run the country for the...
View ArticleT&T family in disbelief
Even as US officials investigate whether the death of a family of four in New Jersey was a murder/suicide, relatives of the deceased in T&T say they don’t believe Lyndon Shane Beharry could have...
View ArticleAutopsy shows wife, kids shot dead
“What did we miss?”This is the question that now haunts the family members of Amanda Morris after an autopsy revealed Morris and her two sons were murdered and her husband, Lyndon Beharry, committed...
View ArticleAnti-Kidnapping Squad in hunt for missing woman
The Anti-Kidnapping Squad of the Police Service has been called in to help find missing San Fernando businesswoman Carolyn Katwaroo.Katwaroo, 43, was last seen around 8 pm on Friday night by...
View ArticleParents demand pre-fab building
The Parent Teachers’ Association (PTA) at the Cap-de-Ville Government Primary School is calling on the Minister of Education to set up a pre-fab school for their children as they say the current school...
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