Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

FOR the second time in 19 months, TT’s men’s football team will go into the Bacolet Stadium, Dwight Yorke, Tobago needing a victory to secure a spot in Concacaf Nations League A. In March 2023, then in Group C of Nations League B, the second-placed Soca Warriors drew 1-1 with Nicaragua in Bacolet in their […]

West Indies women’s cricketers will need a victory over England in their last group game of the 2024 International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s T20 World Cup on October 15 if they are to advance to the semifinals of the competition. On October 13, England (six points) got their third win in as many group matches […]

MINISTER of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds urged young people to help to get Trinidad and Tobago ready for natural disasters, in a statement on October 13. He sought to mark International Day for Disaster Reduction whose theme this year is Empowering the next generation for disaster resilience. “I commend all the members of our society, […]

Impressive fifties by opening batsmen Brandon King (63 off 33 balls) and the returning Evin Lewis (50 off 28) guided the West Indies to a five-wicket win against Sri Lanka in the first match of their three-match T20 series at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Sri Lanka on October 13. The hosts were inserted by […]

THE Prime Minister on October 11 visited a ship acquired to help plan the exploitation of the Dragon gas field, for which TT has obtained a two-year licence from the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) to extract Venezuelan natural gas, exempting TT from US sanctions on its neighbour. TT also has a […]

HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh says government continues to do all it can to ensure the public receives essential pharmaceuticals and non-pharmaceuticals. He said those included vaccines, HIV test kits and expenses for the Chronic Disease Assistance Programme (CDAP). Deyalsingh made the comments before the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives approved a $6,704,077,000 […]

FOR the second time in less than a month, a Cunupia businessman has been abducted by men dressed as police officers. Initial reports from police said Suvesh ‘Cooksie’ Ramnarine, 33, of Warrenville, Cunupia was liming at a nearby bar on October 12 when around 7.10 pm, five armed men dressed in police tactical uniforms with […]

A few days ago, a friend and I were discussing how, as young secondary-chool students, we dreaded receiving order marks for bad behaviour. Back then, the mere concept of an order mark was sufficient to ward off tendencies to major mischief. I cannot recall bullying incidents in “our day” at St Augustine Girls’ High School. […]

THE Emperor Valley Zoo says it was not properly consulted on the $56 million upgrade to the facility by the Agriculture Ministry. It agrees with outraged members of the public that there is no need for a cinema and bar, among other things, at the zoo, when many of the animals’ enclosures are in dire […]

The question of raising the blanket ban on lawyers from advertising their services was raised at the Law Association’s first law conference on October 10. The formal ban on lawyers’ advertisements was implemented in 1986, following a British law rescinded that same year. Arguably, the ban itself hasn’t been particularly effective in limiting lawyers from […]