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Burglars strike sleeping minister
Bandits sneaked into the family’s home of a government minister as he slept and made off with cash and other electronic items. “My life was spared thank God for that. Thank God for being alive this...
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73-year-old graduates in computer literacy
Some 312 participants, including a 73-year-old woman, on Monday graduated from a computer literacy class hosted by the National Poverty Reduction and Eradication Programmes Coordinating...
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Hunting ban to be lifted
While hunting associations are happy that the two-year hunting moratorium will be lifted in October, they are concerned that government has not addressed the critical problem of poaching. Prime...
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Cane farmers query final $130m payout
Where is the rest of the money? This is the question being asked of Prime Minister Kamla PersadBissessar and her Government by Cane Producers Association of T&T’s general secretary Seukeran Tambie....
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Presbyterians get gift from ex-teacher: $.6m to build home for aged
The wish of a retired vice-principal was realised yesterday, six years after her death, when $.6 million was donated to the Presbyterian Church for the construction of an elderly home. This was the...
View Article$195,000 bail for two men charged with raping girl, 12
Two men were granted bail totalling $195,000 on charges of raping a 12-year-old girl who had been missing for four months.Vaughn Lester McDonald, 31, and Jamal Williams, 23, both of Marabella, appeared...
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Two accused of assaulting girl, 12
Two men were granted bail totalling $195,000 on charges of raping a 12-year-old girl who had been missing for four months. Vaughn Lester McDonald, 31, and Jamal Williams, 23, both of Marabella,...
View ArticleJury finds man not guilty of rape
A San Fernando jury wasted no time on Thursday in returning a not guilty verdict in favour of Moruga construction worker charged with raping a teenager eight years ago.Donneil Joseph, 33, went on trial...
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Rowley asks churches to be accountable
Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has called on churches to play their role in ensuring accountability and good governance from politicians. Referring to the government’s $55 million donation to...
View ArticlePrinces Town robber killed by bar owner
When three gunmen stormed a bar in Princes Town and shot a patron, the owner fired back with his licensed firearm, fatally wounding one of the robbers. The dead man was identified as Shaka James, 31,...
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Tragedy in Central: Crash kills four childhood friends
The Felicity community was shocked and saddened yesterday by the death of four childhood friends within walking distance from home. Ajay Gosein, 23, Premnath Ravi John, 25, Suresh Nanan, 34, and his...
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Vernella went too far—Prakash
Congress of the People political leader Prakash Ramadhar and San Fernando West MP Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan were both critical of Minister in the Ministry of People and Social Development Vernella...
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Pastor: Learn from tragedy
Two of the four men killed last weekend in Felicity were given a Carnival-like send-off with tassa and music trucks blaring, during a street procession to the Felicity cemetery where they were laid to...
View ArticleBail reduced for ‘ropeman’
Gardener Sunil Ramcharan, the man who allegedly tied a woman with a rope and walked her along a garden road in Gasparillo, has been charged.Thirty-seven-year-old Ramcharan appeared in the San Fernando...
View ArticleVendor’s wife: ‘Find my husband’s killer’
The wife of murdered street vendor Godwin “Bake” Goolie is appealing to the police to find her husband’s killer. “We have heard nothing from the police yet. I have no idea why someone would do this. I...
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No bail for woman, 22, accused of stabbing 10-year-old sister
Bail was yesterday denied to a 22-year-old woman accused of stabbing her 10-year-old sister because the child is in a serious condition at the San Fernando General Hospital. Dion Cross, who was...
View ArticleNo bail for woman accused of stabbing sister
Bail yesterday was denied to a 22-year-old woman accused of stabbing her ten-year-old sister because the child is still warded in a serious condition at hospital.A petite Dion Cross, who was arrested...
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Woman in Avenue van attack claims ‘horn’: I tripped
The woman who was caught on video vandalising a Toyota Hilux van on Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook, has apologised for her actions, saying that she “tripped” when she saw her boyfriend with another woman....
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Unionist faces dismissal from Petrotrin today
Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget faces instant dismissal if he defies the instructions of his substantive employer, Petrotrin, to return to work today.In an...
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Sando fire leaves 2 families homeless
Police are investigating whether two kerosene lamps were the cause of a house fire in Vistabella, San Fernando, on Wednesday night which left two families, including a baby, homeless. No one was...
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