Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

Reigning Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) premier division champions Fatima College and four-time premier division winners Naparima College will go head-to-head in Mucurapo from 3.30 pm on September 18 to highlight the third round of matches in the 2024 SSFL season. Naparima began their season with back-to-back wins versus East Mucurapo Secondary and Trinity College […]

On April 12, 2004, the prince of Port of Spain, Brian Lara, continued his love affair with the Antigua Recreation Ground (ARG) venue when he swept English off-spinner Gareth Batty to fine-leg to become the first batsman to reach the 400-mark in the history of Test cricket. Lara’s innings in the fourth and final Test […]

MINISTER of Health and MP for St Joseph Terrence Deyalsingh was robbed at gunpoint while in his constituency on September 17. Newsday understands Deyalsingh was sitting outside Nyahbinghi’s bar at about 5 pm when two men armed with guns held him up and robbed him of his bera – a traditional Indian-style gold bracelet – […]

FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert has rejected claims from the opposition UNC that any finance minister would be able to access people’s personal tax information should the Miscellaneous Provisions (Global Forum) Bill 2024 become law. He made this statement during his opening contribution to the debate on the bill in the Senate on September 17. The […]

POLICE shot and killed two men at a guesthouse in Sou Sou Lands, Tobago, on September 16. The victims have been identified Razeen Quashie and Hakeem Anderson, both of Golden Lane. A senior police officer told Newsday that around 6.05pm, intelligence officers went to the guesthouse and confronted the men after receiving “certain information.” The […]

FORMER Jamaican PM PJ Patterson said for his entire life, Sir Shridath Ramphal remained above the partisan divisive fray. He said Ramphal never sought nor held any electoral office. Patterson was paying tribute to Ramphal at his funeral in Guyana on Saturday. “His strident insistence ‘on being Guyanese before being Indian and being West Indian […]

CARIBBEAN Tourism Organization (CTO) secretary general and CEO Dona Regis-Prosper has welcomed the organisation’s new chairman Ian Gooding-Edghill of Barbados. A highlight of the CTO’s recent business meetings in the Cayman Islands was the election of Gooding-Edghill, Barbados’ Minister of Tourism and Transportation, as the new chairman of the ministerial council, succeeding Kenneth Bryan, Minister […]

THE Central Bank continued its 60th-anniversary celebrations with two outreach activities in Tobago on the weekend. These activities, led by Central Bank Governor Alvin Hilaire, showcased the bank’s commitment to financial education and environmental sustainability across the nation. On September 13, according to a press release, the bank hosted a special Schools Outreach Day at […]

IT’S COMMENDABLE businesses in Tunapuna have partnered with police to extend the reach of camera surveillance. We need more of this. The Eagle Eye project, launched mere months ago, is a collaboration between the Greater Tunapuna Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the Tunapuna Police Station Community Council and the authorities. It has already given police […]

THE EDITOR: While I fully commend the use of traffic wardens that I have seen in St James recently, there are other areas where they are also needed. Ariapita Avenue immediately comes to mind, Especially at night-time, unless of course they only work during the day. What’s the story with that? Woodbrook has become a […]