Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

Dylan Carter missed out on the World Aquatics Swimming Championships men’s 50m freestyle final by two hundredths of a second, placing ninth overall when action continued at the Duna Arena in Budapest in Hungary on December 14. Swimming out of lane five, Carter placed fifth in semi-final two in 20.82 seconds, but his time was […]

Former dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at UWI Prof Emeritus Terence Seemungal says most people recover from long covid in three to six months, but there are a few for which symptoms last longer. The US Centers for Disease Control defines long-term covid as a chronic condition that occurs after covid19 infection and […]

Last Tuesday was Human Rights Day. It marked the end of 16 days of global activism against domestic violence against women. Last week, I signalled the growing trend of girls and young women wanting to return to the days when women were kept by men. In Sweden, 14 per cent of seven-14-year olds want to […]

Having perused the Report of the National Advisory Committee on Constitutional Reform (197 pages), I congratulate the eight-member committee, chaired by former speaker Barry Sinanan, for its obviously hard work in producing a viable basis to stimulate citizens’ interest in several critical constitutional matters – political representation, political performance, accountability and small-state democracy as a […]

Go to Tobago, they said. It will do you the world of good, they said. You’ll rest. You’ll relax. You’ll reset. Always willing to try new things, I took their advice. Tobago I know. Taking advice is less familiar ground. I go to Tobago. Specifically, I go to Tobago with a friend. We’ll call her […]

THE FATHER of businessman who owns several cellphone store branches was snatched from his Bamboo Settlement #1, Valsayn home on December 14. And residents are calling on the police to act quickly to find Zahir Khan. When Newsday visited Khan’s home around 4 pm there were several men standing around the yard talking and looking […]

POLICE are investigating the murder of a Tacarigua man in what they believe was a gang-related hit. Witnesses told investigators Ano Thomas, 44, was standing in front of his Alexander Street home around 7.50 pm on December 13 when a white car drove up and several assailants came out, opening fire on the victim. The […]

TWO-TIME Trinidad and Tobago Olympic cyclist Njisane Phillip, 33, showed he still has something left in the tank, by reaching the men’s sprint quarter-final of the Track Cycling Challenge – Grenchen 2024 in Switzerland on December 14. Phillip, representing his Just Living Daily (JLD) Cycling Academy, did well to progress through the three first rounds […]

POLICE are investigating the murder of Kirdy Ramdhanie of Longdenville who was gunned down on December 13. Police said they received reports of gunshot at Lamont Street, Enterprise shortly after 9 pm. First responders found the victim bleeding from several gunshots in a track and several spent shells near the body. The injured man was […]

POLICE are investigating the circumstances which led to the murder of a Diego Martin man whose body was found hog-tied and with a gunshot injury to the head off Lady Young Road, Belmont on December 13. The victim was identified as 23-year-old Kareem “Scooby” Baptiste. Police said they were alerted that the body of a […]