Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

COMMISSIONER of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher has been suspended from office pending the outcome of a criminal probe into the acquisition of two sniper rifles for the Strategic Services Agency. Harewood-Christopher was not fired, contrary to other media reports. On January 31, while in custody Harewood-Christopher was served with a notice of her suspension by the […]

On Thursday, the Finance Ministry announced it would offer a six per cent increase to UWI lecturers for the six-year period from August 2014-July 2020. The offer sits between the government’s initial offer of four per cent and the West Indies Group of University Teachers’ (WIGUT) counterproposal of ten per cent. The increase came after […]

Debbie Jacob IN MY laundry list for education that I wrote about in last week’s column, I mentioned the importance of having service learning in all TT schools. Some people asked for more information on this and wanted to know the difference between volunteering and service learning. Simply put, volunteering is the act of giving […]

Austin Fido I SPEND a lot of time watching people be Angry Online about politics. Very often, I watch people be Angry Online about TT politics. Not too long ago, I watched a master of this particular genre rile himself about Stuart Young’s elevation to prime-minister-in-waiting. Young cannot be made PM just so, argued Angry […]

THE EDITOR: They write about solutions, they analyse political situations, they offer suggestions to deal with a number of issues, but ask them to attend a meeting to share their views and the excuses come aplenty. Yet they wonder why the country is in the state that it is in. I have been heckled and […]

CENTRAL SPORTS began the defence of their TT Cricket Board (TTCB) National League Premiership I title with a convincing victory on Sunday, thumping newly promoted Prisons by an innings and 16 runs in Felicity. Central Sports had already earned first-innings points on Saturday after posting 287 in response to Prisons’ 66 all out. Resuming the […]

THE Cuban government and Refugees International have condemned a decision by US President Donald Trump to construct a migrant detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which he said would hold as many as 30,000 people. The US has had a military base there since 1903. The lease on the base has no fixed expiration date. […]

EDUCATION Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said learning to play the steel-pan can actually inculcate lifelong good habits in youngsters, speaking to Newsday at the Junior Panorama Finals at Queen’s Park Savannah on February 2. Newsday caught up with her, between her regular trips from the Grandstand to the Drag to encourage each group of young […]

MOVEMENT for Social Justice (MSJ) political leader David Abdulah says events which led to the arrest and subsequent release of Commissioner of Police (CoP) Erla Harewood-Christopher shows “Trinidad and Tobago is in a state of crisis.” He made this comment during a virtual news conference on February 2. Harewood-Christopher was arrested at her office in […]

POINTE-a-Pierre MP David Lee has repeated the Opposition’s view about deepwater exploration being a priority for the energy sector. He made this comment in response to the award of two production-sharing contracts (PSCs) to EOG Resources on January 29. In a statement then, Energy Minister Stuart Young said the PSCs were for shallow-water blocks Lower […]