Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

CHAGUANAS WEST MP Dinesh Rambally believes the public deserves answers on the December 22 partial collapse of Well Services Petroleum Ltd’s Rig 110 which left one man injured and another missing at sea. In a release on January 3, Rambally warned that the incident must not be forgotten amidst the state of emergency and other […]

REIGNING First Citizens Knockout Cup champions Defence Force (15 points) made another massive statement in the 2024/25 Trinidad and Tobago Premier Football League (TTPFL) season on January 3 when they got a thumping 6-3 victory against the league’s defending champs AC Port of Spain at Phase 2 La Horquetta recreation ground. It was the Army/Coast […]

PAN TRINBAGO will pay tribute to the late Lisa Morris-Julian in 2025. In a news release on January 4, Pan Trinbago said it will host the 2025 Eastern Region Steelpan Champions in her honour. Morris-Julian, Minister in the Ministry of Education and Member of Parliament for D’Abadie/O’Meara, her son Jesiah, six, and her daughter Xianne, […]

TOBAGO has recorded its first murder for 2025. The victim has been identified as Beris Joseph, 15, a student of the Signal Hill Secondary School. Police said residents of Mt Hay heard gunshots on the night of January 3. The teenager’s body was discovered on the roadway on January 4. Investigations are continuing. The island […]

POLICE Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher said “the fight is just getting started,” against criminals as she announced the arrest 126 people, the seizure of 17 guns and 675 rounds of assorted ammunition in the first five days since the state of emergency (SoE) was declared on December 30. “The powers granted to officers under the SoE […]

POLICE are probing the circumstances in which a two-year-old girl from Point Fortin ingested a poisonous substance on Boxing Day. The girl’s mother told police the child was left in her grandfather’s care to go to work around 8 am on December 26. However, she said upon returning around 2.15 pm the child ran towards […]

POLITICAL leader of the National Transformation Alliance (NTA) Gary Griffith offered rare words of praise for Dr Rowley after his announcement that he will resign as Prime Minister before the end of the legal limit of his current term. Griffith has been one of Rowley’s fiercest critics after his stint as police commissioner (CoP) ended […]

IT TOOK just seven minutes for the Prime Minister to announce the end of a career that has lasted half-a-century. The decision of Dr Rowley, 75, to resign from office is not surprising, but the way he opted on January 3 to convey his intention to do so is unprecedented and extraordinary. At the tail […]

Dara E Healy Music is the atmosphere Sweet music is everywhere Even in the back, in the dark, a blind man can find a melody Music fills the world with happiness Plenty sweetness and togetherness Music have no friends or enemies Everybody could dingolay Dingolay! – Mighty Shadow, Dingolay HIS JOY while he was playing […]

UGO BLANCO TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR has not been the best year for the world; all red alarms went off. Humanity is under siege. Over the past decade the number of active armed conflicts worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Last year there were more than 120 armed conflicts ranging around the world, according to the International Federation […]