A joint operation called Opeeration Strike Back II between the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) and the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF) has started. It began on Republic Day – September 24 – and will continue for the five months. According to the TTPS, it will deal specifically with certain Divisions in […]Read More
CASH rewards of $50,000 each have been offered for information regarding the whereabouts of the five inmates who escaped from the Youth Training and Rehabilitation Facility in Arocua on Thursday. The five – Anthony Ramsumair, Jaden Fletcher, Dillano Marcano, Darren Scott and Shakell Brian Seepersad – remain at large. The used a hacksaw to […]Read More
By KEVIN RAMNARINE The 2020 budget will be read on Monday. It will be the fifth budget of the current Minister of Finance. There has never been an easy time to be the Minister of Finance of Trinidad and Tobago. Whoever occupies that chair of Minister of Finance after the 2020 general election will […]Read More
THE Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) has filed a judicial review application against a decision of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley not to launch an investigation into allegations of misconduct against Chief Justice Ivor Archie. The LATT is seeking a series of declarations over Rowley’s handling of a report, which recommended that […]Read More
PROVIDENCE – THERE was little doubt that the skipper of the Guyana Amazon Warriors Shoaib Malik’s 73 from 45 balls would have secured the Player of the Match award against the Jamaica Tallawahs at Providence in Guyana on Thursday. His captain’s knock saved the day since after winning the toss and electing to bat […]Read More
POLICE have recovered the stolen vehicle of a murdered Princes Town man in St Helena Village, Piarco. The red Nissan Sylphy was stolen from Azard Ali, 60, when he was killed in his Princes Town home over the weekend. Officers of the Stolen Vehicles Unit (SVU) of Port-of-Spain stopped two men who were in […]Read More
By ALICIA CHAMELY On Sunday I read a newspaper headline that was so infuriating, so egregious, so insulting that I continue to be surprised that my beloved people of Trinidad and Tobago didn’t take to streets in a mass fiery protest. What was this headline? “$4,000 CARIFESTA CAKE.” $4,000 of taxpayers’ money was […]Read More
FIVE inmates of the Youth Training Rehabilitation Centre in Golden Grove have escaped early Thursday morning. The Trinidad and Tobago Prison around 2.45 a.m, officers on duty at the Youth Training Rehabilitation Centre were alerted by charges in the western dormitory that an escape was in progress. An alarm was raised and the officers […]Read More
PORT-OF-SPAIN – BARBADOS Tridents have moved into second place in the 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League standings beating Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) by seven wickets with two balls to spare at the Queen’s Park Oval on Wednesday evening. It means that TKR will have to beat the thus far unbeatable Guyana Amazon Warriors in […]Read More
MALABAR – POLICE have arrested a 34-year-old man who held two of his relatives against their will at their home at Harrinanan Avenue in Malabar on Wednesday. A release from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) stated that officers of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), Guard and Emergency Branch and the Northern […]Read More