Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

STAFF and customers at South Haven Mall, Debe, got quite a scare when fire broke out around 9.45 am on August 20. A member of staff, whose identity was not revealed, was injured. Neither the nature nor seriousness of the injury is known as yet. Staff and customers were evacuated from the mall as a […]

RYAN Bishop was shot dead around midday on August 19. Police said around 12.10 pm on August 19 they went to Straker Village, Laventille after reports of gunshots in the area. They said approximately 100 feet from the Straker Village Community Centre they found Bishop dead. Investigations are ongoing. The post Man gunned down in […]

FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert is supporting moves by the TT International Finance Centre (TTIFC) to push Trinidad and Tobago towards becoming a cashless society. He spoke on August 20 at the launch of the National Financial Inclusion Survey Report (2023) at Tower D, International Waterfront Complex, Wrightson Road. Financial services ombudsman Dominic Stoddard revealed 21 […]

Roland “Boy Boy” Joseph, 24, of Cumuto Main Road, Cumuto, was shot dead late on the evening of August 19. Police said around 9.45 pm on August 19 they received a call about gunshots near Hilltop Drive, Cumuto. They arrived and saw a bicycle on the road, then followed a trail of blood for about […]

WHILE the doors of TT’s schools will open to 23 Venezuelan children next month, hundreds of others will remain locked outside the education system. Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly listed all the preparations – legal, administrative and educational – to admit the young migrants, but Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds told reporters that about […]

THE IDEA of steelpan on the coat of arms is sweet music to our ears, but the way this move was announced by the Prime Minister struck a sour note. Dr Rowley chose the forum of a special PNM convention on August 18 to unveil the change. But a political-party event is the last place […]

THE EDITOR: Well, Paris Olympics 2024 have come and gone. Congrats to the winners and commiserations to the non-medal winners. My country came close, but we have no extra luggage to bring home. Former TT Olympic Committee president Brian Lewis dared to dream. Many of us thought it was a stretch but hoped for some […]

RUSHTON PARAY AS THE shadow minister for trade and industry, I am compelled to bring attention to the disturbing direction in which the Government is steering the rice industry. The PNM Government has presided over the systematic collapse of several vital industries in this nation, from the sugarcane sector to the once-booming oil and gas […]

MEMBERS of the teaching service, having given the majority of their lives to educating and moulding the nation’s children, look forward to enjoying the fruits of their labour on retirement. The compulsory age for retirement, at least for the moment, is 60 years. However, members of the teaching service can access voluntary retirement from age […]

THE EDITOR: How terribly unfair life can be to us, the differently-abled community in TT. Deaf people in this country are, like children, “seen, but not heard.” This time we intend to be heard. TV6 was the first television channel to carry the signed news for the deaf, and deaf people flocked to the station […]