Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

It’s unlikely that senior members of Cabinet were unaware of the Prime Minister’s decision to resign. Was Stuart Young’s unusual statement at the news conference on the state of emergency that the PM’s presence would not have been “appropriate” a hint of this week’s development? The PNM has long taken pride in its efficient internal […]

During the Christmas season, a group of friends with mixed political loyalties, like so many citizens now, were expressing serious concerns about public-safety issues – crime, murders, corruption, politics. During the agitated discussion, blame was put on several high public officials whose names were loudly, even angrily, called out. There were blaming, fingerpointing, etc, accompanied […]

Attillah Springer’s words in the New York Times article on our state of emergency were heartening. They were dread words, and yet there was more hope to be gleaned from them than most other things I read. She said, amongst other things (and I paraphrase here), that innocent young black men will inevitably get caught […]

THE EDITOR: In general, most of us do nothing simply because it is easier to do so. Throughout history, the few, the wicked and the immoral have been able to rule and take advantage of the many because of fear. Taking a stand for what one knows to be right is not always easy. Think […]

Whenever I hear the FireOne Fireworks motto – “Let’s make positivity louder” – I cringe at its audacious inaccuracy. While, unfortunately, the “louder” part is spot on, how could the following ever be “positive” – nationwide trauma to animals, loss and death of animals, loss of livelihood for livestock and poultry farmers (eg the latter […]

Patrice Matthews may still be considered a baby in the TT art world, but her work was recently shown on an international platform – in Manhattan, New York. The self-taught artist told WMN, during the covid19 pandemic in 2020, she needed an outlet for all the time she had on her hands and she began […]

CHAGUANAS WEST MP Dinesh Rambally believes the public deserves answers on the December 22 partial collapse of Well Services Petroleum Ltd’s Rig 110 which left one man injured and another missing at sea. In a release on January 3, Rambally warned that the incident must not be forgotten amidst the state of emergency and other […]

REIGNING First Citizens Knockout Cup champions Defence Force (15 points) made another massive statement in the 2024/25 Trinidad and Tobago Premier Football League (TTPFL) season on January 3 when they got a thumping 6-3 victory against the league’s defending champs AC Port of Spain at Phase 2 La Horquetta recreation ground. It was the Army/Coast […]

PAN TRINBAGO will pay tribute to the late Lisa Morris-Julian in 2025. In a news release on January 4, Pan Trinbago said it will host the 2025 Eastern Region Steelpan Champions in her honour. Morris-Julian, Minister in the Ministry of Education and Member of Parliament for D’Abadie/O’Meara, her son Jesiah, six, and her daughter Xianne, […]

TOBAGO has recorded its first murder for 2025. The victim has been identified as Beris Joseph, 15, a student of the Signal Hill Secondary School. Police said residents of Mt Hay heard gunshots on the night of January 3. The teenager’s body was discovered on the roadway on January 4. Investigations are continuing. The island […]