Mom begs for help to send son to school
A teenager who lost his home and then his father, who drowned two years ago, is now fearful he will lose his chance at a successful life because his mother cannot afford to send him to the secondary...
View ArticleCops search for vandals
Vandals smashed windows, destroyed drain pipes and threw rocks inside a centre housing Rousillac Hindu School pupils a day before the start of the new school term yesterday.Cleaners who went to get the...
View ArticleCompany claims union intimidation
Even in the face of an injunction from the High Court, protests continued outside Lennox Petroleum Services (LPS) in San Fernando on Thursday as former workers led by the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union...
View Article50 blood samples test negative for malaria
Fifty blood samples taken from Cedros residents have been diagnosed as negative for malaria but councillor Shankar Teelucksingh says testing must continue.In an interview yesterday, Teelucksingh called...
View ArticleNo suspicion of wrongdoing in T&TEC substation fire
The T&T Electricity Commission says it has no suspicion of sabotage following an early morning fire at its Savonetta Substation which knocked out power at the Point Lisas Industrial Estate and...
View ArticlePetrotrin worker found dead in crashed car
A month before he was expected to lose his job with the shutdown of the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery, Petrotrin welder Jefferson Ogiste ended up dead when the car in which he was traveling ran off the San...
View ArticleGas price hike coming
Predicting an exponential increase in fuel prices at the pumps if the Government succeeded in shutting down the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery, Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union president general Ancel Roget...
View ArticleRoget predicts increase in fuel prices
Predicting an exponential increase in fuel prices at the pumps if government succeeded in selling the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery, president general of the Oilfield Workers Trade Union president general...
View ArticleKesar: Not true that OWTU played role in purported sale of Petrotrin refinery
Trinmar’s Branch President Ernesto Kesar is debunking any notion that the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) had anything to do with the purported sale of Petrotrin’s refinery.In an interview on...
View ArticleFrustrated Petrotrin workers gather to hear company's fate
It was a feeling of gloom and doom outside the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery on Tuesday morning as workers received news that the refinery will be shut down and some 700 workers will be sent home. From as...
View ArticleSecurity guard’s body recovered at Moruga
Coast Guard officers have recovered the body of Keshion Jonathan Rampersad, who drowned on the eve of his birthday while swimming at the mouth of the L’Anse Mitan River in Moruga on Sunday.Rampersad’s...
View ArticleRio Claro residents unhappy with rehab work
Rehabilitation and corrective work on earthquake-damaged homes has started in the ravaged Mora Heights development in Rio Claro, but some residents are complaining of substandard work. Others are also...
View ArticleFear of Malaria outbreak in Cedros
Faced with the hospitalization of a Venezuelan national who is being treated for malaria at the San Fernando Teaching Hospital, Cedros residents are now calling on the government to do immediate...
View ArticleCoast Guard recover body of drowned man
Coast Guard officers have finally recovered the body of Kesion Jonathan Rampersad, who drowned on the eve of his birthday while swimming at the mouth of the Lanse Mitan River in Moruga on...
View ArticleCoast Guard searching for man's body
Coast Guard divers are still searching for the body of Kesion Rampersad who is believed to have drowned at Moruga on Sunday. Rampersad, 21, of Penal Rock Road, was swimming at the mouth of the Lanse...
View ArticleRoyal Castle fuels local expansion
Fifty years ago in the bustling city of Port-of-Spain, Marie Permenter took a brave step in opening up the first Royal Castle fast-food restaurant on Frederick Street.It was at the height of the...
View ArticleRoyal Castle opens new outlet in Penal
While many companies are closing down or cutting staff to stay afloat in this economic recession, T&T’s first locally-owned restaurant chain Royal Castle is continuing to expand.During the opening...
View ArticleNew hotline flooded with info
Riding on a wave of goodwill from the public, Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith says he is already getting hundreds of calls on his private line 482-GARY giving details of criminal activity in...
View ArticleEarthquake scare for hospital patients
Clutching her three young children and her mother who had suffered a stroke, Traci Cort fled the 15th floor of the San Fernando Teaching Hospital as the tremors from a 6.9 earthquake rocked T&T and...
View Article35 pupils ungraded
An entire class of 35 pupils from Rio Claro East Secondary have scored ungraded in two of their Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination subjects after their School-based Assessment...
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