Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
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Dara E Healy The film’s title was Inside de People TV. The opening sequence showed a working-class family watching their local station’s 7 o’clock evening news. Suddenly, there was their teenage son being interviewed, live, during a disturbance in downtown Port of Spain. “Wait!” the mother says, sitting up in alarm, “But is what we […]
THE EDITOR: I am a simple person with simple questions. Can anyone explain to me how the value of the dollar is decided? Here in Trinidad we had petro dollars, pitch lake, sugar, cocoa and coffee, as well as a little tourism. Yet, somehow, other islands like Barbados and those in the Eastern Caribbean just […]
MINISTER in the Ministry of National Security Keith Scotland – the Cabinet member who was in July appointed under the understanding that he was to be assigned responsibility for police matters – should clarify his position on the use of private security firms in the crime fight. At the launch on November 20 of an […]
TREVOR SUDAMA ASSESSING a sense of economic dissatisfaction and social disillusionment among the majority of Americans, Donald Trump amplified and exploited this sentiment with liberal recourse to misinformation, disinformation and flagrant untruths. He attributed the causes of their grievance and distress to the following: 1. The invasion of the country by tens of millions of […]
West Indies batsmen Mikyle Louis (97) and Alick Athanaze (90) both missed out on their maiden Test centuries on day one of the first Test between the Windies and Bangladesh at the Sir Vivian Cricket Stadium, Antigua on November 22. The hosts were sent in to have first strike, and they closed the day’s play […]
Signal Hill Secondary had the last laugh against their rivals Scarborough Secondary when they copped the boys’ and girls’ Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Coca-Cola Tobago zone intercol titles at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Tobago on November 22. In the first game of the double-header, the Signal Hill girls made light work of […]
A collaborative effort by police units has led to the arrest of four suspects involved in an armed robbery at a supermarket on the corner of William Street and Lopinot Road, Arouca, on November 21. The men, aged 21, 22, 25, and 26, are all from San Juan. Police recovered several stolen items and seized […]
THIS country has signed a memorandum of understanding with India to facilitate development of an integrated automated fruit and vegetable processing industry. Signing the MoU on behalf of TT was Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne, while External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar signed on behalf of the Indian government. The signing took […]
SAN JUAN North Secondary coach Jerry Moe has said his charges are ready for all comers after they copped the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Coca-Cola boys’ east zone intercol title at the Arima Velodrome on Wednesday evening. Winners of the east zone intercol title from 2016-2019, San Juan got their revenge against a Trinity […]
A HIGH COURT judge has delivered a scathing oral judgment in an assault-and-battery case involving a prisoner at Golden Grove Prison in 2021. Justice Ricky Rahim awarded Kelvin Wallace $75,000, plus interest, to send a “strong message that in a civilised society, this must not be tolerated. “It is the duty of the courts to […]