Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

THE PNM is considering two people from the field of education as possible nominees to contest the Cumuto/Manzanilla seat in the general election, sources told Newsday on January 31. The first is Wayne Gransam, a retired principal who now serves as assistant secretary of the PNM’s Cumuto/Manzanilla constituency executive. The second is a very highly-qualified […]

THE Prime Minister said he keenly looked forward to retirement, while confident he was leaving the country in good hands politically, as he bade farewell to PNM party members of his Diego Martin West constituency at a cocktail reception on February 1 at Diego Martin South Community Centre. Also attending were most of his Cabinet […]

SEVEN inmates from Women’s Prison, Golden Grove Convict Prison and Maximum Security Prison (MSP) faced judges on January 25 when they stepped on stage at the Unattached Calypso Competition in the Belmont Community Centre to vie for a place in Calypso Fiesta, the semifinal leg of the National Calypso Monarch competition. They sang to the […]

Months ago, before this iteration of our coat of arms, when the idea first caught the public’s attention and mockery, there were all sorts of illustrations making the rounds. By far the best was of the shield divided as per Carib and Stag, ships replaced by maxis and the whole flanked by two winer girls. […]

An estimated half-million Palestinains who were temporarily displaced by the Gaza War began returning to north Gaza last Sunday as a result of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Their destination is a place of destruction – mountains and mountains of rubble and severely damaged buildings. The scenes of destruction resemble World War II. It […]

Prime minister-designate Stuart Young, SC, is destined to be a decisive factor one way or another in the coming election. He is entering at a time when several of our public institutions remain broken, with low levels of public confidence, when crime and national security face lingering troubles, when income inequity expands, when our foreign […]

IF Rhys Thompson and Modupe Onilu are listed to perform at a party, expect an energetic set filled with infectious rhythms that will keep you moving. And although they are a duo, they make it their duty to give the audience as much energy as a full band would. With a history in music stemming […]

Once Upon a J’Ouvert: Part three of a three-part series by SONJA DUMAS I THINK I began storming 3canal’s J’Ouvert band in 1997. They had begun calling it 3canal in 1994, but this had been preceded by their band called Jocks Tuh Pose – clever wordplay with which some pierrot grenades will be duly impressed, […]

COMMISSIONER of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher, who was arrested on January 30 and kept in custody at the St Clair Police Station, is expected to be released without charge. Confirmation came from Harewood-Christopher’s attorneys Pamela Elder, SC, and Russell Warner. The development comes after police met with Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard, SC, at his […]

THE TOBAGO Business Chamber is urging the Police Service Commission (PSC) to send Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher on administrative leave immediately, pending the outcome of a criminal investigation involving the importation of two military-grade sniper weapons for the Strategic Services Agency (SSA). It also wants the commission to appoint an acting police commissioner during the […]