Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

DESPITE sharp condemnation from Guyana and the international community, including the US, Venezuela continues to defend its actions regarding the latest maritime incident in the disputed Essequibo region. On March 2, Venezuela defence minister Gen Vladimir Padrino Lopez issued a statement saying that the national armed force (FANB) categorically rejects the statements made by Guyana […]

A 73-year-old man is now dead after he was hit by a car on the Eastern Main Road on the night of March 1. The man has been identified as Frank Atherton of Swan Quarry Extension, Valencia. Police said at about 8.50 pm on March 1, Parbatee Mootelal was driving her white Nissan AD wagon […]

UNDER the Clock had Machel Montano, Grammy award-winning Nigerian Afrobeat artist Davido and top musician Etienne Charles as the headline acts at Queen’s Royal College, Maraval Road, St Clair, on February 28. The event also featured Shal Marshall, Drupatee, Farmer Nappy, Lyrikal and other artistes who delighted patrons with their performances. Here are some snapshots […]

YOUNG masqueraders took over the streets of Port of Spain at the Junior Parade of the Bands on March 1 at the Queen’s Park Savannah. Children came out in their thousands, eager to take part in the Carnival festivities. Newsday photographer Angelo Marcelle captured these images of the spectacular parade.   The post Kids take […]

THE Licensing Division has issued some 415 Carnival permits for trucks to be a part of the annual festivities, according to Transport Commissioner Clive Clarke. As of February 21, there were just 182 people making applications – a far cry from the 223 permits issued in 2023 and 326 in 2024. Licensing Division administers permits […]

NEGOTIATIONS between TTPost and its recognised majority union Postal Workers’ Union will continue on March 20 as both parties reject each other’s salary increase offers for two bargaining periods. TTPost rejected the union’s counter-proposal on February 26 for a 15 per cent increase for the period 2014 to 2016 and nine per cent for 2017 […]

The continuing contretemps between the Chaguaramas Military Museum and the state resurfaced again on Tuesday after the museum posted to its Facebook page its “rejection” of the eviction notice issued by the Chaguaramas Development Authority (CDA) in October 2024. That notice ended on Saturday. Kathy Edwards, the museum’s PRO, noted that it was impossible for […]

This is a humanitarian cause. It is worth spending a little time considering during Carnival. Man, woman and child have to use a small fishing boat to cross a river to go to work, shopping or school. The 100-year-old shaky bridge connecting their homes to the outside world collapsed about ten months ago after several […]

March 16 is the day when TT will say goodbye to its seventh prime minister since Independence in 1962. At 75, and after 44 years in politics, Dr Rowley will hang up his well-worn hat and go out while the nation is still in high post-carnival spirit. Mr Stuart Young, a senior counsel and currently […]

On February 24, I lunched with two friends, Mary and Fiona, visiting Tobago from the UK. Before our meeting, they announced they had a story to tell me – one that they felt would make an article of interest. On February 21, the two had gone on a fishing expedition with Mary’s Florida-based sister, Denise, […]