Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

A local manufacturer has written to the Central Bank governor, the Auditor General, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) complaining about the lack of information on the distribution of foreign exchange. The letters, sent by a director of local beverage producer Ramsaran’s Dairy Products (RDP), were sent to the three entities on October 25. The […]

ENERGY Minister Stuart Young was unfazed by attorney Nyree Alfonso’s assertion that money from the potential sale of the tugboat Solo Creed would not cover the costs of the clean-up of the oil-spill off Tobago. He replied via WhatsApp to questions from Newsday on October 28. On February 7, the tugboat was towing the barge […]

A deputy commissioner of police has admitted to giving flawed advice to the consultancy firm involved in the promotion assessment process for the rank of assistant superintendent of police (ASP) to move from the first stage to the second. The admission was made by DCP administration and operational support Natasha George on October 18, in […]

In 47 separate incidents, the Customs and Excise Division seized counterfeit goods from retailers between December 2023 and July 2024. Trudy Lewis, deputy permanent secretary at the office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs (AGLA), announced this on October 28 at a sub-regional seminar on intellectual property (IP) enforcement of IP prosecutors, […]

THE life of another woman has ended violently. Khadija Hackett died around 5.17 am at the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) on October 28 from a gunshot wound to her head. Preliminary reports indicate that Hackett, 30, of Sapathay Hill, Preysal, Couva, was liming at a bar at the Corner of Dallas Avenue and Cocoyea […]

POLICE Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher has agreed to return three licensed firearms to a former soldier who served on the security detail for former police commissioner Gary Griffith. The ex-soldier, who was made a special reserve corporal, was permitted in March to challenge Harewood-Christopher’s decision to vary his FUL (firearm user’s licence), taking back three weapons […]

JASON CLIFTON WHEN racing action was contested at Santa Rosa Park, Arima on October 26, punters witnessed a five-race card all being run off on a wet and fast main course. The stewards of the day had to remove all three turf races to the main track, after the turf course was deemed unsuitable for […]

ADVOCATES for reparations for hundreds of years of enslavement of Africans are calling on the Commonwealth to take some sort of action against the British government’s decision to exclude reparations from the agenda of the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa. The 2024 CHOGM took place from October 21-26 and, even before […]

GOVERNMENT will implement a pilot project for a remote-work policy for the public service in November, according to Public Administration Minister Allyson West. “We will be looking to see how the remote-work policy impacts the productivity of the public service,” she told the Senate on October 24. That’s a disappointing position to take after talking […]

CUTHBERT SANDY BULLYING IN schools is becoming more and more prevalent and pervasive. I even suspect it is running parallel to the runaway crime in the country. It scares me that the bullies and victims of this type of behaviour will sooner or later become adults and the fear is that it will be transferred […]