Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
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THE morning session on August 8 at the 2024 Paris Olympics was a disappointing one for Trinidad and Tobago, as the women’s 4×100-metre relay team and shot-putter Portious Warren were both knocked out of the qualifying rounds. In the women’s shot put event, the 28-year-old Warren recorded a distance of 17.22m in her third and […]
THE BEST was saved for last. After a rocky start last week, TT’s medal prospects at the Paris Olympics this week dramatically picked up steam. Jereem “The Dream” Richards did his country proud on August 7 at the Stade de France in the men’s 400m finals. Running in the unenviable position of lane 9, he […]
TOMORROW, Frederika Joseph, an Indo-Trinidadian, will be 100 years old. She was born on August 9, 1924 in D’Abadie. Her father was employed on an estate in D’Abadie. His main tool was a cutlass and his daily job was cutting coconuts; his wife assisted in removing the jelly. Frederika recalls during an interview, “We use […]
THIS MONTH marks six years since the Prime Minister announced the shuttering of the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery, once one of the most important in global history. Since then, instead of things coming to a definitive end, there has been a long, painful goodbye. The refinery is a headache. It is likely to remain so unless and […]
Dr Rita Pemberton AMID church service and celebration, Emancipation in Tobago began with strong expressions of resistance which were manifested in strikes across the island, some of which lasted for weeks. In this way the freed Africans sent a strong message that they were not prepared to comply with the labour demands of the planters […]
ENERGY Minister Stuart Young has said government’s efforts over the last nine years have caused TT once again to attract the attention of major international energy players. As a result of this, he said, there is a world of opportunity that students at the National Energy Skills Centre (NESC) could access in the global energy […]
INDEPENDENT Senator Hazel Thompson-Ahye will convene a regional conference on the rights of children on November 13-15 at the Hilton Trinidad. Held by the International Society of Family Law (ISFL), the conference theme is: The Convention on the Rights of the Child at 35 years: The promise kept or a dream deferred? Thompson-Ahye, vice- president […]
THE Trinidad and Tobago Blind Welfare Association (TTBWA) has been granted the deed to a plot of land in Bacolet, Tobago, to build its Tobago headquarters. The deed was handed over to Felix Cazoe, president of TTBWA, by assemblyman and Secretary of Health, Wellness, and Social Protection, Dr Faith BYisrael during a ceremony on August […]
ANGOSTURA is marking Caricom’s 50th anniversary with a special limited spirit called Angostura Tribute Caricom. The rum and bitters maker presented its batch of Angostura Tribute Caricom to Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne at the House of Angostura, Laventille, on August 7. Only 240 bottles of Angostura Tribute Caricom were produced. […]
WHEN Dennis Francis returned to his alma mater, Woodbrook Secondary School, on August 6, he told its current students without honouring the principles he learned there, “I would not be effective as the president of the General Assembly of the UN. “It was education that delivered me to the presidency of the UN,” he added. […]