Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

MINISTER of Caricom and Foreign Affairs Dr Amery Browne may have ruffled some diplomatic feathers at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 29, when he stood in defence of women, children and aid workers being killed in Gaza by Israeli forces. Browne, who led a six-person delegation from […]

A Palmyra businessman was beaten during a robbery at his establishment on September 28. Police said the pharmacy owner was serving a customer when, shortly after 8 pm, a white Nissan Tiida pulled up in the carpark and three men wearing dark clothing, masks and gloves exited the vehicle. He told officers the men stormed […]

AN anti-crime exercise in Laventille resulted in police finding a gun and ammunition. Inter-Agency Task Force officers said around 3.45 pm on September 28 they acted on information they received and went to Beverly Hill Plannings. They searched an electrical-metre room near Building 10 and found one Sig Sauer M400 rifle loaded with a magazine […]

A 47-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death by another woman during an argument over a male friend in Carenage early on the morning of September 29. The deceased has been identified as Keisha Blackman. Police said around 5 am on September 29, Blackman was liming with her cousin near her home when the suspect […]

A tribunal of the Office of Procurement Regulation (OPR) has suspended the award of a multi-million contract for the Ministry of Works and Transport’s Valsayn Avenue Bridge project to Maraj Hill General Contractors Company Ltd. On September 25, a panel comprising Sparkle Selman, David Charlerie and Joy Joseph-Lara ordered the suspension of the project until […]

A 31-year-old labourer from Claxton Bay was shot and killed early on the morning of September 28. The man was identified as Brandon Barclay. Police were told Barclay was brought to the Couva District Health Facility in critical condition by two men in a white Nissan B14 around 6 am on September 28. They left […]

ON Monday, September 23, one of our recently-rescued dogs mysteriously went missing from a friend’s fenced premises where she was being held and cared for. She had been found two weeks earlier, apparently dumped, along Golden Grove Lane, a popular site for abandonment of unwanted dogs. My two friends who had seen her there picked her up and immediately […]

TT’s pro road cyclist Teniel Campbell placed 47th in women’s road race event at the 2024 Road and Para-Cycling Road World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, on September 28. Campbell completed the challenging 155km distance in just over four hours and 16 minutes out of a field of 194 pro cyclists. Pedalling to World Champs gold […]

STACEY SAMUEL-O’BRIEN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS has rendered me physically disabled. Over the past 19 years, as the disease progressed, I regressed from walking normally, to walking with a limp, to using a cane, to currently using a walker and a mobility scooter. While I can stand and walk in short bursts, I have to use my […]

Trinidad and Tobago women boxers Tianna Guy and Angel George boxed to silver at the XXXIX Feliks Stamm International Boxing Tournament in Poland on September 27. In the 60kg gold medal match, Guy lost 5-0 on points to Poland’s Sandra Kruk. Kruk proved superior in each round and generated scores of 30-27, 29-28, 29-28, 30-27, […]