Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

THE EDITOR: They write about solutions, they analyse political situations, they offer suggestions to deal with a number of issues, but ask them to attend a meeting to share their views and the excuses come aplenty. Yet they wonder why the country is in the state that it is in. I have been heckled and […]

CENTRAL SPORTS began the defence of their TT Cricket Board (TTCB) National League Premiership I title with a convincing victory on Sunday, thumping newly promoted Prisons by an innings and 16 runs in Felicity. Central Sports had already earned first-innings points on Saturday after posting 287 in response to Prisons’ 66 all out. Resuming the […]

THE Cuban government and Refugees International have condemned a decision by US President Donald Trump to construct a migrant detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which he said would hold as many as 30,000 people. The US has had a military base there since 1903. The lease on the base has no fixed expiration date. […]

EDUCATION Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said learning to play the steel-pan can actually inculcate lifelong good habits in youngsters, speaking to Newsday at the Junior Panorama Finals at Queen’s Park Savannah on February 2. Newsday caught up with her, between her regular trips from the Grandstand to the Drag to encourage each group of young […]

MOVEMENT for Social Justice (MSJ) political leader David Abdulah says events which led to the arrest and subsequent release of Commissioner of Police (CoP) Erla Harewood-Christopher shows “Trinidad and Tobago is in a state of crisis.” He made this comment during a virtual news conference on February 2. Harewood-Christopher was arrested at her office in […]

POINTE-a-Pierre MP David Lee has repeated the Opposition’s view about deepwater exploration being a priority for the energy sector. He made this comment in response to the award of two production-sharing contracts (PSCs) to EOG Resources on January 29. In a statement then, Energy Minister Stuart Young said the PSCs were for shallow-water blocks Lower […]

THE PNM is considering two people from the field of education as possible nominees to contest the Cumuto/Manzanilla seat in the general election, sources told Newsday on January 31. The first is Wayne Gransam, a retired principal who now serves as assistant secretary of the PNM’s Cumuto/Manzanilla constituency executive. The second is a very highly-qualified […]

THE Prime Minister said he keenly looked forward to retirement, while confident he was leaving the country in good hands politically, as he bade farewell to PNM party members of his Diego Martin West constituency at a cocktail reception on February 1 at Diego Martin South Community Centre. Also attending were most of his Cabinet […]

SEVEN inmates from Women’s Prison, Golden Grove Convict Prison and Maximum Security Prison (MSP) faced judges on January 25 when they stepped on stage at the Unattached Calypso Competition in the Belmont Community Centre to vie for a place in Calypso Fiesta, the semifinal leg of the National Calypso Monarch competition. They sang to the […]

Months ago, before this iteration of our coat of arms, when the idea first caught the public’s attention and mockery, there were all sorts of illustrations making the rounds. By far the best was of the shield divided as per Carib and Stag, ships replaced by maxis and the whole flanked by two winer girls. […]