Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

Moruga “mom hacked to death,” screamed big front-page headlines. Hours after that, Michelle Benjamin (MP for Moruga/Tableland) cried, shedding tears, as she explained, not only for the murdered wife and judicial support officer, Stacy Gopaulsingh but “for all other murdered people in my constituency and the country.” Others – relatives and citizens – shed tears […]

At midnight on December 27, the Prime Minister made a statement on the official Office of the Prime Minister Facebook page expressing disappointment at the murder rate for 2024. The families of the 615 people slain to date are also disappointed, not least because of the continuing inability to bring killers to court, far less […]

We will soon say goodbye to a most unsettling year. Not necessarily personally but in the sense of the seismic shift in world affairs that has caused us all to question so much of what we took for granted in our lifetimes and the generally accepted value system. Truth be told, change has been gathering […]

We have a strange aversion to being grateful. Despite all the date books, calendars and daily inspirational messages about how thankful we should be for living. “I’m blessed,” people say when you ask how they are. Still, I get the feeling we have real trouble with “thank you” and “I really needed this” when it […]

The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has congratulated Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) technical director Anton Corneal for graduating from the first edition of the FIFA technical leadership diploma. Corneal was one of a select group of technical leaders from across the globe to graduate from this course. The programme kicked off in May 2023 […]

WEST INDIES women’s head coach Shane Deitz believes his squad will have to work much harder in 2025 after their devastating 3-0 One-Day International series loss against India puts them out of contention for an automatic Women’s World Cup spot. Deitz confirmed batting inconsistencies from his top order played an important role in the team’s […]

THREE SUSPECTS were arrested by officers of the Matura Police Station following the robbery of a delivery vehicle along the Toco Main Road on December 27. The arrest was made during an anti-crime exercise, two firearms and a quantity of ammunition and camouflage clothing were also seized. In a news release on December 28, police […]

THE Prime Minister, members of his government, opposition politicians and the people of Trinidad and Tobago on December 28 congratulated Joshua “D Pan Man” Regrello after he set a world record of 31 hours for the longest-playing pan marathon to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. Previous steelpan world records had been set for […]

THE condolence book in memory of Minister in the Ministry of Education and MP for D’Abadie/O’Meara Lisa Morris-Julian, who died in a fire along with two of her children on December 16, will remain open for signing daily from 9 am to 4 pm until December 31 in the Rotunda of the Red House in […]

OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar mourned the passing of former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, 92, who died on December 26. “As a former Prime Minister and current Leader of the Opposition, I extend my heartfelt condolences to the government and people of India on the passing of the Honourable. Manmohan Singh former Prime Minister of […]