Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

OPPOSITION Senator Jayanti Lutchmedial-Ramdial lamented a lack of police vehicles patrolling the nation’s streets, chiding the government for both poor acquisition and poor maintenance of these. She spoke in the Senate budget debate on October 22, lamenting the upsurge in violent crime. Asking if the government was keeping people safe at night, she said the […]

INDEPENDENT senator Dr Maria Dillon-Remy said greater autonomy for Tobago would be a win for both Tobago and Trinidad. However, she said the debate on the autonomy bills – the Tobago Self-Government Bill and the Tobago Island Administration Bill – will be affected by politicians with selfish motives ahead of the general election and THA […]

A 21-YEAR-OLD security guard from Point Fortin was robbed at gunpoint on October 21 by two men pretending to be interested in getting a job. The police said the incident happened around 7 pm when the victim, who is employed with Innovative Security Services Ltd, had just finished work. He was walking along the Southern […]

WE ARE in a deep crisis rooted in our current ideal of dominant and violent masculinity. This is not an attack on individual men. It does not mean that all men and boys are invested in this ideal. Rather, it is a naming of the gendered ideas around which our society is organised, and their […]

TRINIDAD and Tobago’s Paris Olympics men’s 400m fourth place finisher Jereem “The Dream” Richards joins an elite list of track athletes for the Grand Slam Track roster in 2025. Richards and American men’s 110m Olympic silver medallist Daniel Roberts were confirmed as the league’s latest additions on October 22. Richards’ inclusion now sees the top […]

ANSA McAl Ltd has remained mum on the reason why it had a change of heart in the acquisition of Trincity Mall, one of the properties which was part of the liquidation process of CL Financial which started in 2017. The company said it is contracted to stay silent on the ongoing process of the […]

PRESENTATION College (San Fernando) coach Shawn Cooper says his team will be playing “another final” when they meet table-toppers St Benedict’s College (32 points) in round 13 action of the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) premier division at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella on October 23. All seven premier division games on the day will […]

REGIONAL British American Insurance Co Ltd (BAICO) shareholders from Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada have lost their discrimination claim against Trinidad and Tobago over the 2009 bailout of CL Financial (CLF). On October 22, CCJ President Justice Adrian Saunders and Justices Winston Anderson, Maureen Rajnauth-Lee, Andrew Burgess and Peter Jamadar dismissed their complaint of discriminatory […]

POLICE are promising the safest Tobago carnival ever. The annual festival, currently in its third year, officially gets under way from October 25-27 with parties and events all over the island. Crime has been on the rise on the island with an unprecedented 25 murders in 2024, triggered by a surge in gun violence. However, […]

THE Land Settlement Agency (LSA) on October 18 handed over keys to nine new homes to Jacob Hill, Wallerfield residents. In a news release on October 21, the state agency said, “Nine residents of the Jacob Hill community in Wallerfield have received keys to new homes, constructed by the LSA, following their relocation from state […]