Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

Joanne Husain takes us with her to the Solomon Islands, on the other side of the world. The Solomon Islands, simply referred to as the Solomons, are an independent multi-island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Situated east of Papua New Guinea and north of Australia, curving along the infamous Ring of Fire, the Solomons […]

After spending the last ten years living in TT, I’ve decided to move to Thailand, and I couldn’t be more excited about this new chapter in my life. The average person never leaves their home country, and some never make it out of their home city. This will be the third country I’m moving to, […]

THE Prime Minister has said that Government continues its search for the people responsible for the abandonment of the Gulfstream, the partially submerged barge at the epicentre of the February 7 oil spill off the coast of Cove in Tobago. Dr Rowley, at the post-Cabinet briefing at Whitehall in Port of Spain, told reporters the […]

THA Minority Leader Kelvon Morris has complained about a lack of transparency and accountability at the Eco-Industrial Development Company of Tobago (E-IDCOT). At a media briefing at his Scarborough office on August 28, Morris said a citizen was blanked by E-IDCOT after seeking information on the requests for proposals for operators of the $27 million […]

DISCUSSIONS between three parties – the National Transformation Alliance (NTA), Congress of the People (COP) and HOPE (Honesty, Opportunity, Performance, Empowerment) – on an alliance for next year’s general election are continuing. HOPE political leader Timothy Hamel-Smith and interim COP political leader Kirt Sinnette disclosed this on August 28. The first hint of a potential […]

FORMER senator, government minister and CL Financial executive Carlos John says at this time, the narrative around Lawrence Duprey should not be the “short period of financial turbulence” of CL Financial, but instead, all the good things he did for the country and the region. Duprey, former executive chairman of CL Financial, died on August […]

NEWLY appointed AG Supt Michelle Rowley-Powder, head of the police’s Child Protection Unit (CPU) and Gender-Based Violence Unit (GBVU), said she is focused on restoring public confidence in the police service. She was addressing concerns about the effectiveness and efficiency of her unit. “We do not want the public to lose faith in the police […]

TTUTA Tobago officer Bradon Roberts says a significant number of students who wrote this year’s Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) performed poorly. So he believes there is need for an urgent intervention to address the problem. “The CXC results provides great concern as well as great hope,” he told Newsday on August 28. For those who […]

OVER 65 pupils from 13 primary schools across North East Trinidad benefited from July-August vacation workshops hosted through the ongoing partnership between the Arrow Foundation, Woodside Energy TT, and the Ministry of Education. The Arrow workshops were designed to ensure pupils maintain the momentum they achieved during the school term. From July 8-August 23 pupils […]

TRINBAGO Knight Riders (TKR) women’s team advanced to the final of the 2024 Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) tournament in dramatic fashion on August 27 when they got a nail-biting four-wicket win over defending champions Barbados Royals with just two balls to spare at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Tarouba. Similar to their previous […]