Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

The High Court on Thursday reaffirmed a judgment against a former Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) employee, ordering her to repay a little over $.3 million to the Communications Workers Union(CWU). Anika Gaspard was ordered to repay the CWU $326,353.22 plus interest at five per cent annually. Gaspard was also directed to pay […]

Rishard Khan A 68-year-old Couva woman was brutally killed during a home invasion on Saturday night. Aamina Mohammed, 68, was at her Nancy Street, Lisa’s Gardens, Couva home taking out food for her husband Nazem, 74, shortly after 7 pm when two masked bandits dressed in dark clothing broke into the house. Police were told […]

Dylan Carter missed out on the World Aquatics Swimming Championships men’s 50m freestyle final by two hundredths of a second, placing ninth overall when action continued at the Duna Arena in Budapest in Hungary on December 14. Swimming out of lane five, Carter placed fifth in semi-final two in 20.82 seconds, but his time was […]

Former dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at UWI Prof Emeritus Terence Seemungal says most people recover from long covid in three to six months, but there are a few for which symptoms last longer. The US Centers for Disease Control defines long-term covid as a chronic condition that occurs after covid19 infection and […]

Last Tuesday was Human Rights Day. It marked the end of 16 days of global activism against domestic violence against women. Last week, I signalled the growing trend of girls and young women wanting to return to the days when women were kept by men. In Sweden, 14 per cent of seven-14-year olds want to […]

Having perused the Report of the National Advisory Committee on Constitutional Reform (197 pages), I congratulate the eight-member committee, chaired by former speaker Barry Sinanan, for its obviously hard work in producing a viable basis to stimulate citizens’ interest in several critical constitutional matters – political representation, political performance, accountability and small-state democracy as a […]

Go to Tobago, they said. It will do you the world of good, they said. You’ll rest. You’ll relax. You’ll reset. Always willing to try new things, I took their advice. Tobago I know. Taking advice is less familiar ground. I go to Tobago. Specifically, I go to Tobago with a friend. We’ll call her […]

THE FATHER of businessman who owns several cellphone store branches was snatched from his Bamboo Settlement #1, Valsayn home on December 14. And residents are calling on the police to act quickly to find Zahir Khan. When Newsday visited Khan’s home around 4 pm there were several men standing around the yard talking and looking […]

POLICE are investigating the murder of a Tacarigua man in what they believe was a gang-related hit. Witnesses told investigators Ano Thomas, 44, was standing in front of his Alexander Street home around 7.50 pm on December 13 when a white car drove up and several assailants came out, opening fire on the victim. The […]

TWO-TIME Trinidad and Tobago Olympic cyclist Njisane Phillip, 33, showed he still has something left in the tank, by reaching the men’s sprint quarter-final of the Track Cycling Challenge – Grenchen 2024 in Switzerland on December 14. Phillip, representing his Just Living Daily (JLD) Cycling Academy, did well to progress through the three first rounds […]