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Protest over pay turns ugly for OAS
Retrenched highway workers have threatened violence and vow to dispose of the remaining assets of their former employer, Brazilian construction company Construtora OAS, if they fail to get their...
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Former OAS workers block highway firm
Protesting former highway workers made good on their threat to disrupt continuation of work on the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension project to Pt Fortin yesterday as they blocked AECOM officials from...
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Best friends shot dead in Central
A week before he and his best friend were shot dead, 22-year-old Jakan Lezama told his pregnant girlfriend Crystal Ramsaran that he did not want any other man raising their child. Lezama made Ramsaran...
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Teachers locked out of classes by irate parents
Frustrated parents of Rousillac Hindu School locked teachers out of classes on Friday as they staged a silent protest over delays in reconstruction of a new school.It has been 13 years since the school...
View ArticleExposé on money laundering coming soon—Faris
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi is promising an exposé on money laundering and corruption in T&T to be released to the public soon.Speaking to reporters after attending a Naparima Girls’ High School...
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Man, 39, murdered while watching TV
Teenager Dionneze Tardieu held her 12-year-old sister Alyiah and wept as undertakers brought out their father’s body from inside their home, more than 12 hours after he was shot.Rudy Ramkissoon, 39, a...
View ArticlePolice foil roadblock
Police foiled a major roadblock at Mosquito Creek, La Romaine, during the pre-dawn hours of yesterday as retrenched Construtora OAS workers tried to use concrete barricades to block the road.The former...
View ArticleFacebook petition to end child marriages
A petition to end child marriages has been set up on Facebook days after the Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO) warned of dire social repercussions if the State interfered with the Marriage Act....
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T&T cocoa rotting in the fields
Global cocoa prices are climbing steadily and international demand for the valuable produce remains high, yet millions of T&T’s finest cocoa beans are rotting in the fields.More than 1,700 cocoa...
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PSA faction calls on Duke to resign
Even though the Public Service Association’s executive has thrown its support behind rape accused president, Watson Duke, the PSA’s Constitution Protectors is calling for his resignation.Founding...
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Avinash tells farmers: Sell cocoa locally
Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture Avinash Singh is advising cocoa farmers to sell their beans to local chocolatiers rather than leave them wasting in the fields. He did so in...
View ArticleOAS workers taking fight to Labour Minister
Retrenched Construtora OAS workers said they have been advised by the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) to call off protests in the southland and instead take their fight to the office of Labour...
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Venezuelans wary of new food plan
Days after Venezuelan President and the T&T Government entered into a trade arrangement to provide basic food and medical supplies, Venezuelans, who continue to flock to local shores, said that...
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Food sales drop at Gulf City
Fast food outlets at Gulf City Mall, San Fernando, reported a 50 per cent drop in sales yesterday, in the face of the as yet unconfirmed threat of Isis attacks on malls across Trinidad this weekend....
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No retreat from Sat
“Offensive and disrespectful.”That is how former president of the Trinidad Muslim League, Dr Nasser Mustapha, yesterday described secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Sat Maharaj’s attack...
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Minister’s wife seeks end to child marriages
Camille McMillan-Rambharat, wife of Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat, is leading an online public campaign to end child marriages in T&T.Using her Facebook page, McMillan-Rambharat has been...
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With the influx of Venezuelans, Cedros prepares for Zika threat
Mosquito traps are being used to keep off mosquitoes in the Cedros region as fears of Zika worsened following an influx of Venezuelan nationals at the Cedros port. Immigration officials said an average...
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No more Hindu child marriages
Hindu child marriages do not exist in T&T anymore, secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Sat Maharaj said yesterday, as he dared Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi to bring statistics over...
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Venezuelans taking T&T jobs
Desperately hungry but with their dignity well intact, boatloads of Venezuelans are continuing to show up along the shores of the southwestern peninsula, with the hope of building a better life in...
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Grenade hoax clears out Point school
Leaving their lunch kits and book bags behind, terrified students of Point Fortin RC Primary School ran out of classes yesterday after hearing rumours that two hand grenades were lying in a bin at...
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