Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

A MAN wanted in connection with outstanding homicide enquiries was killed in an early-morning shootout with South Western Division police in Point Fortin on August 26. Reports said five officers were on patrol and making enquiries in Point Fortin when, around 1.20 am, they spotted Kelon Branker, 24, of Vance River, Guapo, near a bar. […]

PAN TRINBAGO’s new headquarters at the old General Post Office, Wrightson Road, Port of Spain, will cost an estimated $120 million, a release from the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts said on August 26. It is proposed that the headquarters should be a six-storey, mixed-use building, with Pan Trinbago office space, the Ministry […]

TOBAGO Chamber of Industry and Commerce president Curtis Williams says stakeholders are overwhelmed by Superior Hotels Ltd’s plan to offer shares to Tobagonians in the proposed Marriott-brand hotel project at Rocky Point. The project’s developer, John Aboud, made the offer during a meeting with Tobago businessmen, hoteliers and representatives from several organisations at Mt Irvine […]

TRINBAGO Knight Riders (TKR) women’s team mentor Jhulan Goswami is elated that a league like the Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) has bowled off, as it is a league girls around the Caribbean can aspire to which will also serve as a developmental tool for cricket in the region. The WCPL is only in […]

Trinidad and Tobago’s Under-17 cricketers started the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Rising Stars Men’s Under-17 50-over Championships on a triumphant note on August 25 when they got a tight two-run win over Windward Islands in a rain-affected affair at the National Cricket Centre in Balmain, Couva. In a game reduced to 22 overs per side, […]

CARIFTA long jump gold medallist and Under-20 girls’ record breaker Janae De Gannes will begin Trinidad and Tobago’s campaign at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru when she contests the qualifying round of the women’s long jump competition from 10.15 am (TT time) on August 27. De Gannes, 17, broke the girls’ Carifta […]

IN commemoration of International Dog Day 2024, Newsday compiled our photos of dogs from the last two years along with submissions from our staff that show the many sides of our furry companions. We also interviewed Sara Maynard-Agostini, operations director of the Trinidad and Tobago Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (TTSPCA) and […]

THE Ministry of Social Development and Family Services has opened its first social service centre and plans to open more in the coming year. The centre, at 132 Henry Street, Port of Spain, is geared towards responding to the needs of the vulnerable and less fortunate groups. Speaking at the opening on August 26, the […]

AFTER learning the TTSPCA (TT Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) animal shelter in Port of Spain may have to close its doors owing to financial woes, Subway and Starbucks have stepped in as financial partners. Earlier this month, the shelter made public its fears about maintaining its operations and called for regular […]

ONE man is in police custody following the stabbing of the co-captain of the Millennium One glass-bottom boat at No Man’s Land, Tobago on August 25. According to police reports, an altercation broke out aboard the vessel and Javie Phillips was allegedly stabbed in his neck and shoulder by a passenger. Newsday understands that the […]