Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

OPPOSITION Senator Wade Mark questioned the process by which the new design for the coat of arms was commissioned during a sitting of the Senate on January 21 as it debated the National Emblems of Trinidad and Tobago (Regulation) (Amendment) Bill. While Mark said he was not opposed to a redesign of the coat of […]

LABOUR Minister Stephen Mc Clashie told reporters he was bowing out as MP for La Brea, although signalling he would still support the PNM in any way the party may require. He spoke to reporters before entering the Senate on January 21, days after not getting the nod to return as MP but with the […]

INSURANCE giant Sagicor has bolstered its operations in TT, opening two new branches and appointing experienced managers to lead them. In a release, Sagicor said this latest expansion increases the company’s local branch network to six. Industry veterans Marc Aanensen and Wayne Griffith will helm the new branches at Sagicor’s Queens’ Park, Port of Spain […]

Raiders Multisport’s Jadian Neaves won the first TT Cycling Federation (TTCF) Road Race Challenge elite men open which pedalled off from the Foreshore in Mucurapo to Couva, and back, on January 19. Neaves, a double-bronze medallist at last year’s Pan Am Championships, topped the field of 21 cyclists while Heatwave’s Phillip Clarke and Evolution Cycling […]

THE UN’s health agency, the World Health Organization (WHO), has expressed regret at the US announcing its intention to withdraw from the organisation. An executive order posted on the White House’s website on January 20 said the decision to withdraw was based on the WHO’s mishandling of the covid19 pandemic and other global health crises. […]

POLICE are investigating the murder of a CEPEP worker whose body was found on the Chase Village Flyover in the morning on January 21. The man has been identified as Renaldo Sutherland, 44, of Connector Road, Carlsen Field. Initial reports from police said Central Division officers responded to a report of a man lying motionless […]

SIX South Western Division (SWD) officers had to seek treatment after the floor gave way under them during a state of emergency (SoE) search of a house in Fanny Village, Point Fortin on January 20. The SoE, which was declared on December 30, has been extended to April 14. Newsday understands members of the SWD […]

WEST Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) members, led by president Dr Indira Rampersad, marched through the UWI’s St Augustine campus as part of their protest over an ongoing salary dispute on January 20, the first teaching day for 2025. Members marched from the UWI Learning Resource Centre (LRC) to the office of UWI principal […]

BEFORE Martin Luther King Jr, before Malcolm X, before Black Power, there was Marcus Garvey. If the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice, then Joe Biden’s posthumous pardon of Mr Garvey on January 19 goes some way towards righting a wrong perpetuated against a true civil rights pioneer. None other than Dr King […]

AS THE tributes continue to pour in from the local and regional community on the passing of veteran journalist Jones P Madeira, TTUTA also adds its voice of tribute to someone who had certainly distinguished himself as an icon – a journalist who epitomised the highest standards of professionalism and journalistic integrity. While most would […]