Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

A PRISON officer who showed up at a police station around midnight wearing only underwear and demanding to be arrested was granted his request, after he fought with police and threw stones at the building. Around 11.45 pm on February 12, the man went to the Malabar Police Station and banged on the front door. […]

A 44-year-old Marabella woman is in critical condition after she was shot several times in a drive-by shooting on the night of February 13. Neighbours told police Jacqueline Joseph was walking home from buying groceries along Boodoosingh Drive, Battoo Avenue, around 6.20 pm when a white car drove by and someone inside started shooting at […]

In a shocking turn of events, a vendor who was robbed of a $10,000 gold bera in December at the Central Market, Port of Spain spotted the suspect speaking with police officers on February 9. A bera is a traditional gold bracelet with East Indian origins. The victim told officers the 18-year-old man from Beetham […]

Trinidad and Tobago Red Force batsman Jason Mohammed continued his prolific season with an innings of 204 not out against Leeward Islands Hurricanes on day two of their West Indies Four-Day Championship round-three clash at Warner Park in Basseterre, St Kitts on February 13. Mohammed has now scored 483 runs in three innings with scores […]

DEOCHAND RAMJIT SINGH DURING MY recent visit to New York with my wife, who is originally from there, I had the opportunity to experience a public transportation system that is efficient, reliable, and accessible. The contrast between New York’s well-structured transport network and the dysfunctional system in TT highlights a critical issue that we have […]

ST Mary’s College (CIC) got their innings off to a disastrous start against Presentation College San Fernando in their round-five match in the PowerGen Secondary Schools Cricket League premier division on February 11. CIC were three wickets down with just five runs on the board, before Jadon Simon stepped in to rescue the innings. The […]

THE EDITOR: Today we once more celebrate Valentine’s Day. This is a very special day and while many may find it’s over commercialised, it is always nice to show appreciation to loved ones. When we look at what’s happening around the world, we see the growth of hate with so many nations at war. The […]

SUPPOSE someone deposited hundreds of millions into the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC)’s bank account on the eve of a general election. How would you react? Quite probably with suspicion. But what if no individual was behind such largesse and, instead, the payee was a government? Would that change things? And what if it was […]

Paolo Kernahan “WHY YUH do go home and sleep!” That’s advice bellowed into my car from a young woman overtaking me on a terrible road. I was gingerly navigating muddy craters of unknown fathoms when the high-strung harpy in a towering four dubya D pulled up on me and flared her nostrils so broadly I […]

THE EDITOR: I am a final year engineering student at the UWI St Augustine campus. I have noticed the frustration of academic and non-academic staff to get proper parking on campus. The areas allotted for staff parking are usually filled with cars that have expired parking stickers. One solution would be for principal Rose-Marie Belle […]