Author: Newsday Reporter

TWO suspects were arrested and US$89,450 and $2,158,166 in cash seized during a state of emergency (SoE) operation in Tacarigua between January 6 and 7. In a release on January 8, the police said officers of the Arouca CID, the Special Investigations Unit and the Inter-Agency Task Force carried out an SoE operation in Tacarigua […]

BAVINA SOOKDEO Wahida Mohammed-Narine has achieved a milestone in her decades-long career as an educator, earning the Pan African Leadership Institute (PALI) Global Award in Educational Leadership. The Global Awards are among the most prestigious recognitions in Africa. A letter from PALI to Mohammed-Narine, acting principal of San Fernando TML Primary School stated, “It is […]

PAN TRINBAGO will pay tribute to the late Lisa Morris-Julian in 2025. In a news release on January 4, Pan Trinbago said it will host the 2025 Eastern Region Steelpan Champions in her honour. Morris-Julian, Minister in the Ministry of Education and Member of Parliament for D’Abadie/O’Meara, her son Jesiah, six, and her daughter Xianne, […]

THE Eastern Lawyers Association has endorsed the call by the Law Association (LATT) for security to be provided to prosecutors and judicial officers, on request, in the wake of the murder of attorney Randall Hector. The 43-year-old attorney was gunned down in front of his family as they were leaving the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on […]

THE Tobago House of Assembly’s Division of Food Security, Natural Resources Environment and Sustainable Development has released separate public advisories on risks posed to the public regarding stinging nettles and cow itch. In its first release, on January 2, the division said it wanted to sensitise the public to the dangers of the bouhmadou plant/vine, […]

JONATHAN RAMNANANSINGH AND JELANI BECKLES AFTER being stripped of their 2024 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) premiership title on December 30, owing to the disciplinary committee’s findings that striker Derrel Garcia was an illegitimate player for four matches last season, the La Romaine Lions plan to appeal the decision. Benedict’s principal Gregory Quan Kep and […]

THREE SUSPECTS were arrested by officers of the Matura Police Station following the robbery of a delivery vehicle along the Toco Main Road on December 27. The arrest was made during an anti-crime exercise, two firearms and a quantity of ammunition and camouflage clothing were also seized. In a news release on December 28, police […]

THE condolence book in memory of Minister in the Ministry of Education and MP for D’Abadie/O’Meara Lisa Morris-Julian, who died in a fire along with two of her children on December 16, will remain open for signing daily from 9 am to 4 pm until December 31 in the Rotunda of the Red House in […]

Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) technical director Anton Corneal was among 23 technical leaders who graduated from the first edition of Fifa’s technical-leadership diploma. A TTFA release on December 26 said Corneal received his diploma at a graduation ceremony at the Fifa museum in Zurich, Switzerland earlier this month after attending the final block […]

SAN Fernando West MP Faris Al-Rawi says the Home and Village Improvement Programme (HVIP) is making a positive difference in people’s lives, building families and communities. He made this comment during a function on December 21 at his constituency office on Independence Avenue, San Fernando to distribute keys to starter homes under HVIP to some […]