Author: Mya Quamie

Beating 34 other schools, Couva East Secondary took home the first-place trophy for the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business’ Secondary School Business Simulation Competition, with its virtual business, Broadbeam, gaining the highest cumulative earnings. The competitions saw form five and six students engage with a simulation designed to mirror the complex and challenging […]

FORMER prison inmate and drug addict Garth St Clair made a passionate plea to students to make better life choices. Now 34 years clean, St Clair is a multi-disciplinary artist and producer of the award-winning film Trafficked. He shared his story at the Keys to Success youth empowerment symposium hosted by En ToTo, a non-profit […]

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Kadeon Gittens, born with spina bifida, cannot walk. But that did not stop him from joining his classmates at the Tranquillity Government Primary School, Port of Spain for a peace walk on November 7. His mother, Sylvia Gittens, pushed his wheelchair along Stanmore Avenue as the group made their way to the Queen’s Park […]

THE police are seeking the urgent assistance from public in finding 16-year-old Rehanna Moraldo of Southern Main Road, Fyzabad. Moraldo was last seen on November 3 and was reported missing to the Fyzabad Police Station on November 4. She is of African descent, five foot eight inches tall, slim built and dark brown in complexion. […]

MINISTER of Social Development and Family Services Donna Cox says the response to the covid19 pandemic proved the ministry’s ability to support vulnerable groups by expanding programmes and increasing grants. Cox spoke at the 11th Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean held in Bridgetown, Barbados, from October 31-November 1. In her presentation, […]

THE National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago (NDATT) will hold its AGM at Queen’s Hall in the Helen May Johnstone Room on November 16 at 10 am. The AGM agenda will include opening remarks by the chair and a financial report and reports from the president and secretary. There will be an open floor […]

THE Diagnostic Research Educational and Therapeutic Centre for the Hearing Impaired (DRETCHI) is asking the private sector and the public for help in raising $10 million needed for urgent building repairs. “We cannot wait much longer. Part of the roof is actually off the building.” said Nicholas Cumberbatch, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Association […]

In 47 separate incidents, the Customs and Excise Division seized counterfeit goods from retailers between December 2023 and July 2024. Trudy Lewis, deputy permanent secretary at the office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs (AGLA), announced this on October 28 at a sub-regional seminar on intellectual property (IP) enforcement of IP prosecutors, […]

Over a decade after a job evaluation by HRC Associates recommended an 18.6 per cent pay increase for TTPost workers, the TT Postal Workers’ Union (TTPWU) is still trying to get the increase implemented. On October 17, seven months after they protested outside TTPost’s corporate shop in Scarborough, union members went to the office of […]

At a press conference in front of the Red House on October 15, activist Wendell Eversley demanded an apology from Energy Minister Stuart Young and Finance Minister Colm Imbert for the sexual innuendoes reportedly made in Parliament on October 10. The press conference was held to address the state of leadership in Trinidad and Tobago. […]