Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

A Master in the High Court has granted $60,000 surety bail to a 21-year-old man charged with six counts of robbery. Jameel Mills, of Calcutta No 3, Mc Bean Village in Couva, faced master Shabiki Cazabon on August 15, charged with five counts of robbery with aggravation and one count of robbery with violence. As […]

George A Laquis II, managing partner of the St Georges Development Group, said the company spent over $100 million to complete the building formerly known as Hevron Heights to create the luxury St Georges Apartments. Speaking at the launch on August 17 at Upper Mendes Drive, Champs Fleurs, he said construction started in 2022 and […]

THE Bishop Anstey/Trinity College East (BATCE) schools will continue to operate as they are, said the Bishop Anstey Association (BAA) in a brief staff update dated August 7. However, governmental remarks suggest the schools’ situation remains unresolved. Staff, pupils and parents had been under much angst over recent negotiations with the Ministry of Education to […]

IN what has been described as a massive intellectual-property win for this country, Tourism, Culture and the Arts Minister Randall Mitchell has announced that pan got Geographical Indication (GI) rights on August 9. This establishes the country as the birthplace of the instrument, Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore said yesterday, at the first World Steelpan […]

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 […]

CHIEF Secretary Farley Augustine says the THA intends to create a system through which those in the accommodation and transportation sectors can put into a database everyone that comes to rent a room or a car on the island. Augustine announced the initiative on August 8 during a news conference at the Shaw Park Cultural […]

MINISTER in the Ministry of National Security Keith Scotland says he is eager to “buckle down to some work” in Tobago. Scotland is expected to meet with THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine, head of the Tobago Division, ACP Collis Hazel and other security officials on August 12 and 13. High on the agenda during his […]

CENTRAL Division police arrested 13 people, including ten Venezuelans, in an anti-crime exercise on August 8. A media statement on August 9 said officers searched several drug hotspots in the Couva and Freeport districts between 3 pm and 8 pm. While searching an abandoned building at Soobran Street, Dow Village in California, they found the […]

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 […]