Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

A 600-plus crowd came out at the Rabz6 kickboxing event, on December 13 at the Sound Forge, St James. The night’s main event, a five-round heavyweight clash between Kenneth “Ironman” Bishop and Jeremy “Rampage” Rodulfo lived up to the billing. The fight got off to a chippy start, as the fighters often had to be […]

Half-centuries from Jemimah Rodrigues (73 off 35 balls) and opener Smriti Mandhana (54 off 33) powered India to a comprehensive 49-run win in their first Twenty/20 international versus the West Indies women at the Dr DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai, Navi Mumbai on December 15. Mandhana and Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) women’s star Rodrigues shared […]

The murder of a 39-year-old man in Laventille on Thursday and the killing of a pensioner in Maraval on Saturday have brought the toll closer to 600. Police said around 11.40 am on December 12 they received a report of gunshots at Picton Road near the WASA tanks. They arrived and saw a man in […]

A 23-year-old Venezuelan woman who was allegedly lured by a job advertisement on Facebook and was taken to Penal sought refuge in a stranger’s home after escaping captivity. According to initial police reports, the woman, of Cunupia, managed to escape three men who demanded $10,000 from her relatives for her release. She was assisted by […]

The High Court on Thursday reaffirmed a judgment against a former Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) employee, ordering her to repay a little over $.3 million to the Communications Workers Union(CWU). Anika Gaspard was ordered to repay the CWU $326,353.22 plus interest at five per cent annually. Gaspard was also directed to pay […]

Rishard Khan A 68-year-old Couva woman was brutally killed during a home invasion on Saturday night. Aamina Mohammed, 68, was at her Nancy Street, Lisa’s Gardens, Couva home taking out food for her husband Nazem, 74, shortly after 7 pm when two masked bandits dressed in dark clothing broke into the house. Police were told […]

Dylan Carter missed out on the World Aquatics Swimming Championships men’s 50m freestyle final by two hundredths of a second, placing ninth overall when action continued at the Duna Arena in Budapest in Hungary on December 14. Swimming out of lane five, Carter placed fifth in semi-final two in 20.82 seconds, but his time was […]

Former dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at UWI Prof Emeritus Terence Seemungal says most people recover from long covid in three to six months, but there are a few for which symptoms last longer. The US Centers for Disease Control defines long-term covid as a chronic condition that occurs after covid19 infection and […]

Last Tuesday was Human Rights Day. It marked the end of 16 days of global activism against domestic violence against women. Last week, I signalled the growing trend of girls and young women wanting to return to the days when women were kept by men. In Sweden, 14 per cent of seven-14-year olds want to […]

Having perused the Report of the National Advisory Committee on Constitutional Reform (197 pages), I congratulate the eight-member committee, chaired by former speaker Barry Sinanan, for its obviously hard work in producing a viable basis to stimulate citizens’ interest in several critical constitutional matters – political representation, political performance, accountability and small-state democracy as a […]