Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

A pallet of Forres Park Puncheon Rum valued at approximately $25,000 has been reported stolen from the Angostura Ltd warehouse. According to police reports, the theft was discovered during an end-of-year stock check on January 1, and a report was made to the police. The pallet, containing 50 boxes with 24 bottles of 375ml rum […]

POLICE arrested two men and seized two gel blaster guns after a police-involved shooting in Cunupia on January 5. The incident took place at Brian Avenue, Chin Chin Estate at around 12.20 am. According to a police report, officers responded to a tip about six armed men in the area. During the operation, they encountered […]

ALTHOUGH he was born in the US, 14-year-old dancer Philip PremDas IV takes pride in his TT heritage. From admiring and trying to mimic backup dancers in front of his TV as he watched broadcasts of Machel Monday, to touring with Mariah Carey in 2024, he is living his dream. PremDas lives in Silver Spring, […]

Andrew Martin THE awards and accolades are starting to pile up for Chicago-area pannist and musician Jaden Teague-Núñez. The young pannist made history early in 2024 by becoming the first pan player to win the Crain-Mailing Foundation Chicago Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition. Teague-Nunez’s historic victory featured his performance of the challenging composition A Visit […]

It’s unlikely that senior members of Cabinet were unaware of the Prime Minister’s decision to resign. Was Stuart Young’s unusual statement at the news conference on the state of emergency that the PM’s presence would not have been “appropriate” a hint of this week’s development? The PNM has long taken pride in its efficient internal […]

During the Christmas season, a group of friends with mixed political loyalties, like so many citizens now, were expressing serious concerns about public-safety issues – crime, murders, corruption, politics. During the agitated discussion, blame was put on several high public officials whose names were loudly, even angrily, called out. There were blaming, fingerpointing, etc, accompanied […]

Attillah Springer’s words in the New York Times article on our state of emergency were heartening. They were dread words, and yet there was more hope to be gleaned from them than most other things I read. She said, amongst other things (and I paraphrase here), that innocent young black men will inevitably get caught […]

THE EDITOR: In general, most of us do nothing simply because it is easier to do so. Throughout history, the few, the wicked and the immoral have been able to rule and take advantage of the many because of fear. Taking a stand for what one knows to be right is not always easy. Think […]

Whenever I hear the FireOne Fireworks motto – “Let’s make positivity louder” – I cringe at its audacious inaccuracy. While, unfortunately, the “louder” part is spot on, how could the following ever be “positive” – nationwide trauma to animals, loss and death of animals, loss of livelihood for livestock and poultry farmers (eg the latter […]

Patrice Matthews may still be considered a baby in the TT art world, but her work was recently shown on an international platform – in Manhattan, New York. The self-taught artist told WMN, during the covid19 pandemic in 2020, she needed an outlet for all the time she had on her hands and she began […]