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Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

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Jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles wants to explain why his 2024 album, Creole Orchestra – one of five nominees for the US National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for Outstanding Jazz Album – is dedicated to arrangers. They are the unsung heroes of every music project, he says. Though based in the US, […]

Police are still searching for a man they believe may have critical information about the death of three-year-old Jereem George. The child died in a fire at his home in Christian Extension, Windy Hill, Arouca ,on January 23. A man, whom Jereem’s mother knew well, went to the house shortly before midnight and tried to […]

Renowned jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles has been named one of the 2025 Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Excellence laureates, earning a $500,000 prize for his contributions to music. Charles, of Trinidad and Tobago, a celebrated bandleader, composer, and professor at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, is widely recognised for blending jazz with Caribbean […]

PRINCES TOWN MP and shadow minister for public utilities Barry Padarath has temporarily softened his calls for the 2023 TSTT cyber-attack report to be laid in Parliament. He said concerns raised by former executives believed to be named in the report should be heard. The report, prepared by cyber security and risk reduction firm Kudelski […]

IN light of criticism of the coast guard’s losing a mystery boat containing several dead bodies, Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds defended the Government, saying it had provided adequate patrol boats to secure the waters around Trinidad and Tobago. He spoke in a radio interview on January 27. On January 25, workers on Cassia […]

THE Centre of Excellence is set to commemorate 25 years as a premier multi-purpose facility and a landmark of Macoya. The milestone anniversary will be marked on March 25, celebrating its legacy as Trinidad and Tobago’s largest indoor and outdoor venue, catering to many activities, from international trade shows to wedding ceremonies. Over the past […]

A Belmont landscaper challenging the acting deputy chief magistrate’s decision to deny him bail on ammunition charges has been advised to serve the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) with his judicial review application. Afiba Guerra’s application came up for hearing before Justice Joan Charles on January 27. Guerra filed a judicial review […]

THE autopsy on Coosal’s employee Hardeo Manohar, 63, is expected to be done on January 28, a week after he was killed in a freak accident at a Manzanilla job site. Manohar’s granddaughter Alisha Sooker told Newsday the family had been frustrated over fixing the autopsy date but in a lengthy call on January 27, […]

MYSTERY still surrounds an unidentified pirogue carrying around five decomposing human bodies which drifted into Trinidad and Tobago waters on Saturday afternoon but disappeared while being towed by the Coast Guard (TTCG) on Sunday. The TTCG believes the vessel sank while being towed. A ghost vessel is one found without any living crew onboard. This […]

Debbie Jacob To: Stuart Young, Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries. DEAR Minister Young, I listened with great interest to your recent remarks about wanting to reform the country’s current education system – “shifting from the colonial structure to one that’s more relatable and relevant to our culture.” There is much for someone in your […]


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