Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

A COUPLE had to seek medical treatment after they were beaten by 12 attackers who invaded their Penal home on the evening of August 24. Police said PC Rampersad and PC Nelson responded to a call at the couple’s Carlito Trace, Quarry Road, Morne Diablo, Rock Road home. The 25-year-old woman told the officers she […]

PATRICIA Nicholson-Richards has never backed away from a challenge. Sure, she’s encountered situations where her resolve was put to the test. But she’s never felt the need to throw her hands up in despair. A social media co-ordinator with the Office of the Chief Secretary (OCS), Tobago House of Assembly, Nicholson-Richards recalled an occasion some […]

Kristen-Le Chelle Winchester IN the village of Moruga, Lina Emily Chance-Bhagwat is making big steps by “changing the world one egg at a time” with her free range chicken farm. At ten years old, the Moruga-born entrepreneur, is focused on building the Lina’s Free Range Eggs brand for her community. She believes placing focus on […]

TWENTY-SIX students graduated from the 2024 edition of the Diatonic Pan Institute’s pan camp. The camp was held at its 4 Mary Street, Siparia, panyard in August. This year’s activities included playing the national instrument, learning rhythms and basic music theory. Cricket, football and board games were also included as part of the package offered […]

It’s astonishing that illegal quarrying, a crime that requires heavy machinery and multi-tonne trucks, continues so casually in TT. In March 2023, the Ministry of Energy told Parliament that it relied on Google Earth to monitor quarrying. The last formal aerial survey of the TT landscape to identify quarry sites was in 2014. This isn’t […]

PERSISTENCE and determination has led Patries Abigale Ramkaran to push through disappointment, failures, discrimination and scorn become one of the few female contractors in the country. Ramkaran founded Ramkaran Contracting Services Ltd in 2005 at the age of 21 which, at first, only provided construction services. Now, it also provides design and build, janitorial and […]

Reigning Trinidad and Tobago Premier Football League (TTPFL) winners AC PoS and TTPFL runners-up Miscellaneous Police FC had similar results to start their Concacaf Caribbean Cup campaigns as they both drew their respective opening matches 1-1 versus Haitian opposition on August 22. AC PoS and Defence Force were TTPFL’s representatives at the Caribbean Cup last […]

Multi-ethnic societies produce enduring challenges for equity, justice and political management. Today’s electronically-driven democracy helps keep the divisions and “cultural accidents” alive, as now evident in our own “every creed and race” society. During the last two weeks, the country witnessed noisy political clashes between government and opposition over the Constitution, tassa and steelpan, crime, […]

I’ve been on about love for a couple of weeks now. Not because I think it’s the most important thing. Not because I think it solves everything. What I have noticed is that its presence or absence, the perception of its weight in someone’s life, seems to skew the view of things. So, I’m rolling […]

PUTTING oneself in another person’s shoes is one very good way of understanding their perspective. Yet it is something we rarely do. I was brought up on that wisdom, but I was well into my 40s when I put it into practice in a very practical way. My partner was six foot three and I […]