Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

Part II IN ACCORDANCE with the terms of union, in 1889 the attorney general of Trinidad was required to visit and hear cases in Tobago periodically. At union Justice John Gorrie began hearing cases, and after presiding over two sessions in the court there were two contradictory reactions to his presence in Tobago. He was […]

JIMMY CARTER and Manmohan Singh, who died on December 29 and 26 respectively, shared a common trait: leadership without ego. Mr Carter famously moved from being a peanut farmer to serving as the 39th US president. Mr Singh, India’s first Sikh prime minister, was often called “the accidental prime minister” and described as a “reluctant […]

As 2025 begins, here’s a recap of the performance of some economic sectors in the past year and projects expected to be implemented in the new year. Renewable energy In the renewable energy sector, according to the Geological Society of TT (GSTT), bp and Shell’s Project Lara was planned to be a 112MW project which […]

MURDERED attorney Randall Hector expressed his abhorrence for the spate of violence crime now taking place in TT, in an address he gave from the podium of the SDA church at Stanmore Avenue, Port of Spain, moments before being slain by gunmen mere feet away from the church he had just left with his family. […]

The 2025 Courts All Sectors Netball League shoots off at the Eastern Regional Indoor Sports Arena, Tacarigua, on January 4, with the opening day knockout tournament. After this year’s opening ceremony and march past, the action gets under way in the premiership, championship and the alternative divisions. This season, the league comprises 19 teams participating […]

A January industrial relations issue that has never ceased to puzzle me is the practice that human resource departments use in their HR metrics, which are refreshed every year. An example would be the calculating of sick leave. Another example would be in calculation of a vacation allocation particularly in relation to length of service, […]

ATTORNEY Israel Khan, head of the Criminal Bar Association, said the Government should have let the police move stealthily against criminals before publicly declaring a state of emergency (SoE), but had instead tipped off the miscreants who could now easily hide their illegal firearms. He spoke to Newsday on December 31, the day after the […]

The sister of Christine Chadee, the 32-year-old mother fighting for her life in the hospital after a violent attack on December 27, expressed sadness after the death of the suspected attacker, Arnold Ganesh. She recalled the moment she learned of his passing: “I started to cry when I heard he passed. It was sad. I […]

THE Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) has expressed its support for the Government’s state of emergency (SoE) enacted to curb the upsurge in violent crime. The SoE empowers the police (and defence force) to carry out searches without warrants, to detain suspects for 48 hours in the first instance and to restrict […]

Toastmasters TT celebrated its 40 anniversary with a gala dinner at the MIC-IT Macoya Technology Centre, Tunapuna on December 15. A media release said the theme – The Evolution – Past, Present and Future celebrated four decades of empowering speakers, shaping leaders, and fostering personal growth across the nation. The event was attended by current […]