Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

PART of a drilling rig – the derrick – owned by Well Services Petroleum Company Ltd, a private company, collapsed into the sea early on the morning of December 22, sending workers on the south-west platform scampering for safety. Videos uploaded to social media showed workers in life vests bearing the name Well Services, looking […]

Fourteen-year-old Zaheer Samuel was helping his parents offload potted plants at dawn on December 18 at their small shop on the Eastern Main Road, St Augustine when armed men kidnapped him. The boy overheard his abductors discussing a ransom of $200,000, but according to his father, no call was ever made. Police activity played a […]

SOCA Warriors captain Aubrey David said his team can learn many lessons from their 3-1 friendly loss to Saudi Arabia at the Al Shabab Club Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on December 17. The game was the first game in coach Dwight Yorke’s tenure after he assumed coaching duties of Trinidad and Tobago’s men’s football team […]

This mystifying political mess with senior citizens’ pensions could not have come at a worse time. The sudden withdrawal of the Miscellaneous (Senior Citizens’ Pension and Public Assistance) Bill 2024 in which a savings “exceeding $25,000” would have disqualified senior citizens from getting a pension raises two related issues: • The shocking twists and turns […]

THE funeral of D’Abadie/O’Meara MP Lisa Morris-Julian and two of her children – Jesiah, six and Xianne, 25, will take place at the Santa Rosa RC Church, Arima on January 2, 2025, at 9 am. Morris-Julian, Jesiah and Xianne died in a fire at their home on Farfan Street, Arima on December 16. On December […]

Three inmates at the Port of Spain prison have been charged with having prohibited items in their cells following searches by police and prison officers. On November 26 and 27, a co-ordinated search by prison and police officers uncovered a range of illegal items including two cellphones. Officers also found a quantity of marijuana, cigarettes, […]

A TOBAGO man died at hospital following an accident along the Claude Noel Highway on December 20. He has been identified as Stephon Grant, 33, of Les Coteaux. Police said around 10 pm, Grant had parked his silver B-14 Nissan Sentra on the southern lane of the highway and was sorting out items in his […]

Police seized three guns and several rounds of ammunition during operations across multiple divisions between December 20 and the early hours of December 21. In an anti-crime exercise in Morvant, officers from various units, including the Inter-Agency Task Force and the K9 Unit, were on patrol along Cipriani Avenue when they spotted a man holding […]

Reigning Trinidad and Tobago Premier Football League (TTPFL) champions AC Port of Spain (six points) returned to winning ways on December 20 with a slender 1-0 victory against Club Sando at the Mahaica Sporting Complex, Point Fortin. Reduced to ten men after the sending off of right back Liam Burns, AC PoS got their winning […]

THE National Gas Company of TT (NGC) has reported achieving “100 per cent compliance” with the statutory filing requirements under the Integrity in Public Life Act. The company’s chairman, Joseph Ishmael Khan, received a certificate from the Integrity Commission on December 19 recognising the company’s adherence to the Act. NGC’s board of directors completed and […]