Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

TWO buildings have been deemed compromised and unsafe and thus, classes have been disrupted at the San Fernando Central Secondary School, less than a month since the new school term began. In a letter to parents dated September 23, the school’s principal Cindy Khan said infrastructure issues affected blocks E and F. The letter further […]

The PNM’s Laurel Lezama-Lee Sing has resigned as a government senator and former Tobago House of Assembly chief secretary Ancil Dennis replaces her in the Senate, the Office of the Prime Minister has announced. A post on the Office of the Prime Minister’s Facebook page, at about 6 am on September 26, said Lezama-Lee Sing […]

The 20-year-old landscaper who was shot in the head at his Chase Village home on September 24, has died at hospital. Deonarine Roopnarine told Newsday that Ravi St Clair died at around 5.18 pm at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope. St Clair’s mother, Sandra Roopnarine, told Newsday on September 24 he […]

ORDER of the Republic (ORTT) recipient Prof Patrick Hosein says Trinidad and Tobago needs to complete its digital transformation and build out its technological basics in order not to be left behind in an increasingly technology-based world. “I think in certain areas we are moving too slowly. Technology is moving at a much faster pace […]

TOBAGO East MP and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Gender and Child Affairs Ayanna Webster-Roy has appealed to all upstanding, right-thinking people of Tobago not to let negativity prevail. She was speaking during the annual Republic Day Awards hosted by the Office of the Prime Minister – Central Administrative […]

MOMENTS after telling his children goodbye, a 39-year-old man was shot and killed on September 24 – Republic Day. The victim Marlon Bradley was fatally shot after spending time with his children at their mother’s home in Carenage. This was one of several serious crimes committed during the public holiday. Reports say he left the […]

THE Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has discontinued an illegal entry charge against Yasmany Garcia Rodriguez, more commonly known by his social-media username Cuban Boy, because of a lack of evidence. Rodriguez appeared before Magistrate Kerianne Byer on September 25, when the notice of discontinuance, signed by acting DPP Sabrina Dougdeen-Jaglal on […]

TWO weeks after the decomposing bodies of her daughter and grandchildren were found at the bottom of a decommissioned Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) tank in Parlatuvier, Tobago, Jacqueline Wayne says she is still awaiting word from the authorities on when their autopsies will be done. “It is too nerve-racking. I need some kind of […]

Police say the deadly shooting outside a Malick preschool on the morning of September 25 was gang related. Two men have been confirmed dead and a four-year-old boy in hospital after the gunmen opened fire outside of Roxann’s Learning and Childhood Centre around 8.10 on September 25. In a media release hours after the incident, […]

THREE officers have been cleared of a 17-year-old robbery charge against them. Cpl Bobby Noyan and PCs Vijay Balkissoon and Marlon Thomas were discharged by acting Chief Magistrate Christine Charles on the charge that alleged they robbed a Couva man of $300 on November 23, 2006. It was alleged the three intercepted the man’s car […]