Author: Newsday Reporter

TWO Trinidad and Tobago nationals, Nestor Garcia and Reyad Mohammed, have been selected to receive fully-funded scholarships to pursue their master’s degrees in the UK, said the British High Commission in a press release on August 22. Garcia, a UWI graduate was part of the award winning delegate at the 65th Harvard National Model United […]

PORT OF SPAIN: Defending Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) champions Barbados Royals got off to a winning start in this year’s tournament with a thrilling one-wicket win over the Guyana Amazon Warriors at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba on August 21. In a repeat of last year’s final, the Royals were led […]

PARIS: Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has won a gold medal Friday at the Paris Olympics, emerging a champion from a tumultuous run at the Games where she endured intense scrutiny in the ring and online abuse from around the world over misconceptions about her womanhood. Khelif beat Yang Liu of China 5:0 in the final […]

THE EDITOR: It’s August. And on our collective horizon in the coming days and weeks are World Steelpan Day, Patriotism Month, Independence Day, Republic Day and the inevitable reading of the national budget; all of which has had me in a reflective mood. My grandfather told me years ago, that you can’t change the world […]

An assistant accountant with the Betting Levy Board (BLB) has withdrawn her lawsuit against the Ministry of Trade and Industry. However, Nalita Radhay’s claim for just under $140,000 for breach of contract in the payment of acting and travel allowances will proceed against the BLB and will come up for its first case management on […]

THE EDITOR: Consistently, I am reminded of those who are being left behind in our society. As I walk around, upon our streets and in our communities. Also as I read our dailies and view our local TV stations. You have to be really naïve not to notice that there are thousands of individuals of […]

THE Ministry of Health has said there are 666 cases of dengue fever and six laboratory-confirmed deaths in the country, in a statement on August 8. The public is reminded that dengue is spread by the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito. Symptoms appear within five-six days of being bitten and last for one-two […]

NO one has been interviewed to date in the police investigation into the Paria diving tragedy. This was the information Newsday received on August 8 from some of the people and entities connected to the tragedy. On February 25, 2022, Land Marine Construction Services (LMCS) divers Rishi Nagassar, Kazim Ali Jr, Fyzal Kurban, Yusuf Henry […]

THE Trinidad and Tobago Blind Welfare Association (TTBWA) has been granted the deed to a plot of land in Bacolet, Tobago, to build its Tobago headquarters. The deed was handed over to Felix Cazoe, president of TTBWA, by assemblyman and Secretary of Health, Wellness, and Social Protection, Dr Faith BYisrael during a ceremony on August […]

ANGOSTURA is marking Caricom’s 50th anniversary with a special limited spirit called Angostura Tribute Caricom. The rum and bitters maker presented its batch of Angostura Tribute Caricom to Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne at the House of Angostura, Laventille, on August 7. Only 240 bottles of Angostura Tribute Caricom were produced. […]