Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

JASON CLIFTON THE final day of the 2024 racing season will culminate with an impressive six-race card on Boxing Day at Santa Rosa Park, Arima. First Citizens has thrown its hat in the ring and will sponsor all the races on day’s programme. There will be two feature events on the day’s card. The third […]

RELATIVES of Well Service Petroleum Ltd worker Pete Phillip had a difficult time celebrating Christmas, knowing he was supposed to return from offshore duty on December 25. Phillips, 47, had planned spend Christmas with his wife Kandasie, 34, and their four children- Jesiah, 13, Justin, 11, Jelicia, nine and Giselle, three. Phillip’s relatives spent their […]

FIFTY youngsters, aged ten to 18, from the Credo Foundation for Justice and St Jude’s Girls community residences, participated in a learn-to-swim camp at the Diego Martin Community Pool in early December, courtesy of a collaboration between SporTT’s I Choose Sport (ICS) initiative and Miss World Trinidad and Tobago, Anna-Lise Nanton. A SporTT statement on […]

VADODARA, India: Harleen Deol cracked her maiden international century and India Women put together yet another masterful showing to once again roll over the West Indies Women, this time by 115 runs, to wrap up the One Day International series here at the Kotambi International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. In a match that saw India […]

CHRISTMAS has changed. No longer do we send quaint cards in the post. No longer do we window-shop on Frederick or High Streets or hunt around for presents in Port of Spain and environs. No longer do we attend midnight Mass done in Latin. Today, we will Zoom or WhatsApp our greetings. Gifts have already […]

THE EDITOR: I wish that TT votes itself a new and efficient government for 2025. I pray for God’s richest blessings and intervention into the hearts of our people so that they can volunteer to serve others through sincere service. The major reason for wishing that there is a change of government is because TT […]

THE EDITOR: There is some guy or lady at the Debe Regional Corporation, or some such organisation, who truly has an aesthetic eye, or, to put in layman’s terms, who likes to see things look “nice,” as evidenced by the beautiful creative signs on street corners in the Palmiste area, Phillipine. In Sunkist Development where […]

THE EDITOR: The wickedness and vindictiveness of the PNM government was in full view with its now, allegedly, rescinded proposal to bar anyone with savings greater than $25,000 from accessing the old age pension. These PNM politicians, who just fixed up themselves with multimillion-dollar back pay and significant salary increases, wanted to put the squeeze […]

A gunman shot and killed a 49-year-old man on the night of December 23, in Carapichaima on the roadway. The victim, Kester Phillip, of Orange Field Road, Carapichaima, was declared dead at the Chaguanas Health Facility. The police said that at around 9.20 pm, Phillip was walking along Derrick Road when a gunman accosted him […]

The Health Ministry has advised the public to take the necessary precautions to protect themselves from the harmful effects of Sahara dust, in light of ongoing poor air quality owing to the dust’s significant presence in the atmosphere. The ministry issued the advisory in a release on December 24, hours after the Environmental Management Authority […]