Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

ANGOSTURA LTD has re-entered the Chinese market with a $1 million shipment to the country under a distribution agreement with Caribbean Commercial Management (Hangzhou) Company Ltd, a subsidiary of First Caribbean Marketing Company Ltd. (FCMC), signed in July 2024. In a release, the Trade and Industry Ministry said Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon marked the event on […]

ONE man is missing and another was injured after the partial collapse of an oil rig, owned and operated by Well Services Petroleum Co Ltd, a private company, on December 22. The incident happened on Rig 110 in the Heritage Offshore East Field around 3.09 am. In a statement, Well Services said there were 75 […]

THE Bocas Lit Fest has launched Term II of its Bocas Academy. In a news release on December 18, Bocas Lit Fest marketing and media manager Alette Liz Williams said the academy is “a multi-level curriculum of writing workshops and masterclasses designed to develop authors at every stage of their careers.” It said the term […]

COUNCILLORS and aldermen of the Arima Borough Council on December 19 led mourners in signing a condolence book to honour deceased MP Lisa Morris-Julian opened that morning at the council headquarters at O’Meara in Arima. About 70 people had signed up until midday. Morris-Julian, 48, and two of her children Xianne, 25, and six-year-old Jesiah […]

PART of a drilling rig – the derrick – owned by Well Services Petroleum Company Ltd, a private company, collapsed into the sea early on the morning of December 22, sending workers on the south-west platform scampering for safety. Videos uploaded to social media showed workers in life vests bearing the name Well Services, looking […]

Fourteen-year-old Zaheer Samuel was helping his parents offload potted plants at dawn on December 18 at their small shop on the Eastern Main Road, St Augustine when armed men kidnapped him. The boy overheard his abductors discussing a ransom of $200,000, but according to his father, no call was ever made. Police activity played a […]

SOCA Warriors captain Aubrey David said his team can learn many lessons from their 3-1 friendly loss to Saudi Arabia at the Al Shabab Club Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on December 17. The game was the first game in coach Dwight Yorke’s tenure after he assumed coaching duties of Trinidad and Tobago’s men’s football team […]

This mystifying political mess with senior citizens’ pensions could not have come at a worse time. The sudden withdrawal of the Miscellaneous (Senior Citizens’ Pension and Public Assistance) Bill 2024 in which a savings “exceeding $25,000” would have disqualified senior citizens from getting a pension raises two related issues: • The shocking twists and turns […]

THE funeral of D’Abadie/O’Meara MP Lisa Morris-Julian and two of her children – Jesiah, six and Xianne, 25, will take place at the Santa Rosa RC Church, Arima on January 2, 2025, at 9 am. Morris-Julian, Jesiah and Xianne died in a fire at their home on Farfan Street, Arima on December 16. On December […]

Three inmates at the Port of Spain prison have been charged with having prohibited items in their cells following searches by police and prison officers. On November 26 and 27, a co-ordinated search by prison and police officers uncovered a range of illegal items including two cellphones. Officers also found a quantity of marijuana, cigarettes, […]