Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

DAVID SCARLETT PRESIDENT of the TT Cricket Board (TTCB), Azim Bassarath, said the national governing body is prioritising an improvement in the performance of the Red Force team in regional four-day cricket. Trinidad and Tobago have been in a 16-year drought in this format and last tasted success in the West Indies Championship in 2006, […]

A MAN and woman arrested in connection with abusing a one-year-old last week will be charged with attempted murder, among other charges. In a voicenote on October 7, ACP for South Central Wayne Mystar said this is based on advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). “Investigators of the Child Protection Unit (CPU) had […]

A Gasparillo mechanic died at hospital on October 6 after the chassis of a truck he was working on fell on him. Police said they were told Garvin Mungroo was working under a dump truck in an open yard at Bull Fabricators at Thompson Street, Gasparillo, when its chassis fell on him around 12.30 pm. […]

THE police have received an approximate $116 million decrease in their allocation from fiscal 2024 to 2025. This information is contained in the Draft Estimates for Recurrent Expenditure for Financial Year 2025. In fiscal 2024, the police’s budgetary allocation was $2,624, 933,900. The allocation for fiscal 2025 is $2,508,277,000. Within this figure, the police’s expenditure […]

MAYARO MP Rushton Paray has hinted at the possibility of not being chosen by the Opposition UNC to contest the next general election. Unfazed by this prospect, Paray said he will go down fighting as a patriot, putting country ahead of partisan political interests. As he contributed to the 2024/2025 budget in the House of […]

TRADE and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon says government has been working consistently over the last nine years to ensure citizens can continue to buy basic food items at affordable prices. In contrast, she said, the UNC did the exact opposite when it was in office from 2010-2015. Gopee-Scoon was speaking in the 2024/2025 budget debate […]

A FAMILY friend of Matelot murder victim Quacey Francois has told the nation to stop its selfish ways and to seek God, as she believes this is a main reason for the high level of crime plaguing the country. Francois, 41, was shot dead on October 3, minutes after leaving home to go to a […]

A decade-old lawsuit against late CL Financial jefe Lawrence Duprey and five others is likely to go to trial in late 2025. A trial window will be settled on January 30, 2025, when the lawsuit by Central Bank and Colonial Life Insurance Company (Clico) against Duprey and the others comes up for a pre-trial review […]

AN injunction to stop Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher permitting the promotion assessment process for the rank of assistant superintendent of police (ASP) will continue. The temporary injunction Justice Frank Seepersad granted on October 2 to Insp Mark Hernandez, the former head of the police service’s now-defunct Special Operations Response Team (SORT), was extended at […]

BUSINESSMAN Steve Ferguson is again seeking to stop the state from demanding information from him and now his attorneys as it seeks to enforce a US$131 million judgment against him in Miami. Ferguson filed the emergency application for an injunction on September 27. It was previously assigned to Justice Eleanor Donaldson-Honeywell. She was made a […]