Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
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Go to Tobago, they said. It will do you the world of good, they said. You’ll rest. You’ll relax. You’ll reset. Always willing to try new things, I took their advice. Tobago I know. Taking advice is less familiar ground. I go to Tobago. Specifically, I go to Tobago with a friend. We’ll call her […]
THE FATHER of businessman who owns several cellphone store branches was snatched from his Bamboo Settlement #1, Valsayn home on December 14. And residents are calling on the police to act quickly to find Zahir Khan. When Newsday visited Khan’s home around 4 pm there were several men standing around the yard talking and looking […]
POLICE are investigating the murder of a Tacarigua man in what they believe was a gang-related hit. Witnesses told investigators Ano Thomas, 44, was standing in front of his Alexander Street home around 7.50 pm on December 13 when a white car drove up and several assailants came out, opening fire on the victim. The […]
TWO-TIME Trinidad and Tobago Olympic cyclist Njisane Phillip, 33, showed he still has something left in the tank, by reaching the men’s sprint quarter-final of the Track Cycling Challenge – Grenchen 2024 in Switzerland on December 14. Phillip, representing his Just Living Daily (JLD) Cycling Academy, did well to progress through the three first rounds […]
POLICE are investigating the murder of Kirdy Ramdhanie of Longdenville who was gunned down on December 13. Police said they received reports of gunshot at Lamont Street, Enterprise shortly after 9 pm. First responders found the victim bleeding from several gunshots in a track and several spent shells near the body. The injured man was […]
POLICE are investigating the circumstances which led to the murder of a Diego Martin man whose body was found hog-tied and with a gunshot injury to the head off Lady Young Road, Belmont on December 13. The victim was identified as 23-year-old Kareem “Scooby” Baptiste. Police said they were alerted that the body of a […]
A body discovered along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway (CRH) near Oropune Gardens on the morning of December 13 has been identified as Roy George Stanley, 65. Police said officers of the Piarco Police Station received reports of loud explosions being heard along the westbound lane of the CRH near the Holiday Inn Express around 5.45 […]
THE Estate Police Association (EPA) has accepted a four per cent wage increase for two bargaining periods spanning five years from the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (AATT). A statement from the Airports Authority on December 14, said the agreements concluded wage negotiations for a five the period of 2015-2017 and 2018-2020. The agreement, […]
A traditional mas Christmas Dara E Healy “I am the Pierrot With word skills fuh so I am an orator from long ago And bonjay, I could fight too! Me and my band of pierrot Claim we space We defy colonial masters And take over the place With we bois and speech We safeguard we […]
AHEAD of the 2020 general election, Kamla Persad-Bissessar was unequivocal. “We will not engage in any coalition,” she said. “We are strong enough to stand alone as the UNC.” That election saw her party gain two seats. But it was not enough to unseat the PNM. With another poll looming, Ms Persad-Bissessar has shifted her […]