Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

ARRIVE ALIVE is hosting the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2024 on November 17. The theme of this year’s commemoration is That Day. It takes people back to that day “when traffic collisions stopped or changed the course of the victim’s lives forever.” The road-safety NGO Arrive Alive, in a news release […]

A HIGH COURT judge has dismissed a claim and counterclaim over alleged unpaid invoices and overpayments in a dispute between a retired project manager and the Trustees of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago. The case revolved around a $203,929.76 claim by Kendal Lindsay, of Trincity, for unpaid invoices and a […]

THE United National Congress (UNC) held a public consultation on education on November 11, which its political leader said, would help inform the party on the shape and scope its education manifesto should take as it gears up to contest the next general election. The forum, held at Naparima College in San Fernando, was chaired […]

THE POSITION taken by the head of the Police Service Social Welfare Association Gideon Dickson – and ably supported by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar – in relation to the Judiciary’s ban on guns in court is disappointingly short-sighted but not surprising. In the wake of an incident involving an officer being refused entry by court […]

GEORGE WILLIAMS LEADERSHIP is not about being liked or making impressive speeches. It is about delivering results. Peter Drucker’s words should serve as a benchmark to distinguish true leaders from those who hold illusions about what success truly means. Recently, Prime Minister Rowley suggested that he would leave office with his head held high. This […]

THE EDITOR: Is it me or is the TTPS too close to the PNM? This was my conclusion after watching the Keith Scotland walkabout in Chaguanas on Friday. I couldn’t help but notice how loyal and subservient senior members of the TTPS were to Minister in the Ministry of National Security Scotland, especially since he […]

Kanisa George WITH everything taking place in the world right now, it’s easy to get sucked into the vortex of doom and gloom. Unstable economies and the threat of World War III are enough to derail anyone’s mental health. Still, despite undisputed evidence of society’s volatility, I am surprised to discover that naysayers define my […]

THE EDITOR: The annual scheduled shutdown of our desalting plant has met with a level of concern by some citizens. It is well established that maintenance of plants and machinery requires such proactive and scheduled operations. The emotional outbursts are tainted with questions about the regularity of such shutdowns. It is, of course, to be […]

Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) founder and political leader Watson Duke says the people of Tobago do not want autonomy but rather, self-determination. Speaking at a press conference at PDP headquarters at Port Mall, Scarborough on November 11, Duke said self-determination meant Tobago would have the right to determine its own political status, as well as […]

BOTH the executive of the police service and the TT Police Social and Welfare Association (TTPSWA) told Newsday on November 12, that they were willing to meet each other over the controversy over whether police officers must sign in their firearms before entering any law courts. DCP Junior Benjamin said most police officers were in […]