Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich to remain in custody over Canada Day weekend
Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich will remain in custody over the Canada Day weekend after she was arrested this week for allegedly breaching her bail conditions. Lich was taken into custody in Medicine Hat, Alta., on Monday after Ottawa police issued a Canada-wide warrant for her arrest. She was brought back to the nation’s capital and made a […]
October hearing for Nidco’s appeal of $850m award
News Jada Loutoo 47 Minutes Ago File photo A HIGH COURT judge will hear the appeal by the National Infrastructure Development Company (Nidco) of the award of the international arbitration panel in favour of Brazilian firm Construtora OAS SA in October, at an expedited hearing. On Thursday, Justice Frank Seepersad adjourned the hearing to July […]
Supreme Court says expanded rape shield laws are constitutional
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld expansions to Canada’s rape shield laws made by the Liberals four years ago. In a 6-3 ruling today, the court says the expanded rules to further prevent a sexual assault complainant’s past from being used against them in a trial are “constitutional in their entirety.” Rape shield laws […]
Law Association looks at junior AG’s Piarco comments
News Darren Bahaw 27 Minutes Ago Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General Senator Renuka Sagramsingh-Sooklal displays legal advice received by her ministry from attorney Kerwin Garcia on the Piarco I case during a press conference at Government Plaza, Port of Spain, Wednesday. Photo by Sureash Cholai The council of the Law Association is […]
Canada’s economy grew in April, but May contraction expected
Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product grew 0.3 per cent in April. The agency says the growth was led by the mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction sector and client-facing industries. However, its early estimate for May indicates the economy contracted by 0.2 per cent for the month. The official reading for May is […]
PCA finds abuse of police power, cover-up in cop’s death in Rich Plain
News Darren Bahaw 9 Minutes Ago PC Clarence Gilkes . Photo source: TTPS The Police Complaints Authority has made damning findings against police officers of the Western Division involved in the fatal shooting of one of their colleagues and a plot to mislead the acting Commissioner of Police. In a statement issued on Thursday, the […]
Mystery solved: Fredericton man who saved stranded eels is local cab driver
Dave Lawrence was on his way to a store in uptown Fredericton when he stumbled across a curious scene. A man was stooped over on the sidewalk frantically scooping up what looked like dozens of small snakes, using a tree branch to scoop them into a little red bucket. “I saw what I thought was a snake, because in […]
Junior AG usurping DPP’s role
News Darren Bahaw 8 Minutes Ago Chaguanas West MP Dinesh Rambally – Photo courtesy Parliament Opposition MP Dinesh Rambally has said statements by the Minister in the Office of the Attorney General Renuka Sagramsingh-Sooklal on making sure the people charged in the Piarco corruption matter are brought to trial are “a shocking and blatant attempt […]
Gaping potholes, crumbling roads across rural N.L. threaten province’s plan to restore tourism industry
Drivers in Newfoundland and Labrador are crying out for asphalt as gaping potholes threaten summer road travel, in a year the provincial government is pushing to restore the tourism industry. Scratch and patch season, also known as summer, often doesn’t come at all in the province’s remotest corners. This year, despite a pedal-to-the-metal marketing campaign welcoming […]
Strong winds damage elderly Tobago woman’s home
An elderly Tobago woman has thanked God for sparing her life after part of her wooden house collapsed early on Wednesday. Marjorie Taylor, 79, of Taylor Avenue, Bethany, shook her head in disbelief as she looked at the remains of the small structure she called home for more than 20 years. Taylor said the house […]
Trinidad, Tobago spared major damage from weather system
News Jensen La Vende Just Now T&TEC workers, at the top, stabilise an electricity pole to prevent it from falling on Martha Alleyne’s, right, house after it was dislodged by a landslide during heavy rainfall on Tuesday night at Second Caledonia, Morvant. – SUREASH CHOLAI THIS country was spared the brunt of the tropical wave […]
Grand Falls-Windsor Pride says it was not welcome at event held on church property
Grand Falls-Windsor Pride co-chair Alyssa Frampton, left, and former co-chair Rebecca Blackmore say a local church refused to allow a Pride walk, planned by the local Lions Club, on its property. (CBC) An LGBTQ Pride organization in central Newfoundland says an event it was involved in was cancelled after a church refused to allow the […]