Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

THE inflation rate, a measure of the percentage change in items for the month of July 2024 as compared to July 2023, is 0.3 per cent. The Central Statistical Office (CSO) shared this information on August 19. The CSO said the inflation rate for July 2024/July 2023 represented a decrease from the June 2024/June 2023 […]

LEGENDARY calypsonian Chalkdust (Hollis Liverpool) sang that in the midst of chaos, you have to learn to laugh. The sentiment has found accord with Philip Montano, a practitioner of the art of ole mas, which is steeped in satire and picong, and from which he and his audience derive the same pleasure – laughter. Not […]

THE Health Ministry’s decision to repurpose the Couva Hospital as a dengue screening and treatment facility is an important step forward in acknowledging and responding to the increase in confirmed dengue cases, 825 at the most recent count, and the growing number of fatalities. Trinidad and Tobago is also facing the possible spread of Zika, […]

LENNOX FRANCIS THOSE charged with defining crime, catching criminals, bringing sanity to the TTPS, delivering justice and all other related activities to make the society safe need to know whom they are after. The hunters, the Minister of National Security; the Commissioner of Police and the police service are searching for criminals with outdated spyware. […]

Debbie Jacob WHEN THE Hugh Wooding Law School recently selected Israel Khan as one of seven lawyers to be honoured at its 50th-anniversary celebrations, I was reminded of the first story I wrote about a man acquitted of murder charges. He was one of Khan’s clients. The young man had stood on the street and […]

BitDepth#1472 Mark Lyndersay ON JUNE 30, the Prime Minister gave a commencement speech to more than 400 graduates at the University of the Southern Caribbean. In his speech, Dr Rowley, looking appropriately professorial in cap and gown, challenged graduates to put their knowledge to work in the fight against crime. It might have slipped the […]

TWO years after announcing her shock retirement from the international women’s game, all-action Barbados allrounder Deandra Dottin says her passion and desire to help the West Indies lift another Twenty/20 World Cup title contributed to her decision to come out of retirement. In July 2022, Dottin confirmed her retirement from the West Indies, saying, “the […]

Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) president Azim Bassarath has been removed as vice president of Cricket West Indies (CWI). At a CWI board of directors meeting on August 8, the regional body decided to revoke its appeal of an August 5 decision by the High Court of Guyana, which determined that Bassarath’s election as […]

SOCA legend and businessman Neil “Iwer” George will be hoping his latest venture into the entertainment world will be a hit as he prepares for the opening of a new nightclub in Tobago. George is part of a management team behind a club at Store Bay Branch Road, Bon Accord, home of the once popular […]

DOUBLE Olympic medallist Keshorn Walcott said criticism is part and parcel of being an athlete. Walcott was speaking to Newsday recently after placing seventh in the men’s javelin final at the Olympic Games in Paris. The Toco native threw the spear 86.16m, a season’s best following season-ending surgery in 2023. It was another medal-less Olympic […]