CHAGUARAMAS – THE Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA) is advising against bathing in at least two popular beaches in Chaguaramas due to high levels of bacteria. This was revealed at the IMA 6th community research symposium titled The Sea and Me: Livelihoods and Learning, at the Carenage Fish Market on Wednesday. IMA research officer (Microbiology) […]Read More
FIRED minister of public administration Marlene McDonald has been able to secure her bail while still at the St Clair Medical Centre. She is on fraud, conspiracy and misbehaviour charges and secured her $2 million bail on Wednesday. When she is discharged from the medical centre, she will be able to go straight home, […]Read More
PRISON officers are being advised to exercise extreme caution after two audio messages posted on social media allude to a plot to “kill any two officers.” Stating that all security agencies were on high alert, Commissioner of Prisons Gerard Wilson warned officers to exercise caution and vigilance especially when off-duty. In a statement on […]Read More
PORT-OF-SPAIN – A policeman has accidentally shot off his middle toe on his left foot when the police car he was in went over a speed bump. Reports indicate that the officer was in a patrol vehicle on Tuesday morning at MovieTowne in Port-of-Spain. Two other officers were in the vehicle and they were […]Read More
GASPARILLO – AFTER 50 years in politics, Tabaquite MP Dr Surujrattan Rambachan says he will be riding out into the sun. He said he will not be seeking political office again. Rambachan was speaking at the Gasparillo Secondary School during the UNC’s meeting on Tuesday night. He said, “There are those who will say good […]Read More
Allyson West has been appointed as Trinidad and Tobago’s new Minister of Public Administration. This was announced by Communications Minister Donna Cox in a news release on Wednesday. Cox said the Prime Minister had advised the President to revoke Garvin Simonette’s appointment as Government senator and to assign the Public Administration portfolio to West. […]Read More
THE Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Office is predicting heavy showers and thunderstorms over Trinidad from 10 a.m. on Wednesday to 2 p.m. on Thursday. In a Yellow Alert, adverse weather bulletin, the Met Office stated, “Street/Flash flooding and gusts up to 65km/h are likely near heavy downpours. “There is the possibility of landslides or […]Read More
Marlene McDonald has been fired again. This time Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who is the political leader of the People’s National Movement (PNM), has revoked McDonald’s position as a deputy political leader of the PNM. In his Facebook Page, Rowley said, “As The Political Leader of the People’s National Movement, I have today revoked […]Read More
GUARDIAN Holdings Ltd (GHL) has declared $253.6 million in after-tax profits for the six months ending June 2019. This was revealed in GHL’s first financial report since its change of majority ownership. Newly-appointed Chairman Patrick Hylton recognised not only the financial performance of the group but the input by the previous chairman “Arthur Lok […]Read More
JACKSONVILLE – THE United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agency has interdicted a boat in the Caribbean Sea with cocaine worth US$115 million. The CBP with its assigned crew to the National Air Security Operations Center in Jacksonville, Florida intercepted the “cocaine-filled go-fast style vessel.” The cocaine estimated wholesale value of the cocaine […]Read More
