Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

The Tobago People’s Party (TPP) has selected retired assistant fire chief David Thomas as its candidate for Tobago East in the THA elections, constitutionally due in 2025. TPP held a marathon screening session for potential candidates for both Tobago seats on February 6, at Shaw Park Cultural Complex. Thomas got the committee’s nod over five […]

The United National Congress (UNC) is mourning the loss of former chairman of the Penal/Debe Regional Corporation (PDRC) and one of the party’s founding members, Premchand Sookoo. Sookoo, 77, died on Sunday February 9, from a suspected heart attack. In a statement on February 10, UNC Political Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said she was deeply saddened […]

It didn’t take long for Jamaica dancehall artiste Beenie Man (Moses Davis) to walk back comments about the popular local street food, doubles. Speaking on a US podcast, Mr Davis declared that while TT was his second favourite country, he did not eat doubles “because dogs did not eat it.” Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Amery […]

Debbie Jacob I LOVED every subject in school except for mathematics, so if you had told me 55 years ago that a maths teacher would shape my future in unimaginable ways, I would have laughed and dismissed any possibility of that ever happening. Fortunately, I wasn’t clairvoyant, and I had no idea that anyone in […]

BitDepth#1497 Mark Lyndersay THE MORNING session of the TT Internet Governance Forum (TTIGF) on January 31 was supposed to be an online discussion of cyberbullying, but it turned into something else entirely. According to Raj Ramdass, director of Restore a Sense of I Can (RSC), a Penal-based technology learning initiative, “The original set-up involved multiple […]

Fr Martin Sirju WORLD Interfaith Harmony Week was celebrated from February 1-7. The week is set aside by the United Nations since 2010 to focus on the importance of interfaith relations and what we can do as a body to pray and work together to enhance peace, foster dialogue, undertake joint projects, and help save […]

THE EDITOR: Next year TT enters its 50th year as a republic. Our past experiences clearly show that there is an urgent need for meaningful constitutional revision. More importantly, based on the most recent events as unfolding in the public domain as they relate to the executive, administrative and judicial arms of governance, serious amendments […]

Taureef Mohammed THE PATIENT lying in the bed was a living corpse: the heart tracing looked perfect, the blood pressure looked adequate, oxygen saturation was over 90 per cent, but, still, the patient looked dead. It seemed like life had been sucked out of him. He looked frail. When he opened his eyes he stared […]

A Venezuelan man, 42, has been arrested in connection with four sex offences, including rape, against a female minor almost five years after the matter was reported to the police. Newsday learnt that the technician was arrested on February 8 in the Southern Division. In July 2020, a report was made to police in the […]

THE Patriotic Front, led by Mickela Panday, has announced seven candidates for the 2025 general election. In May 2024, Panday said the party will be contesting all 41 seats. In a media release on February 9, the Patriotic Front said it was proud to announce its first batch of “strong and dedicated” candidates who are […]