PM afraid to address Jones report on children’s homes
News Janelle De Souza 3 Hrs Ago Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar. File photo/Sureash Cholai Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the Prime Minister is reluctant to focus on the 2021 Judith Jones report on children’s homes because any investigation may implicate members of the PNM. Instead, she said, Dr Rowley was focussing on the 25-year-old Sabga […]
Catholic Church to investigate abuse claims at children’s homes
News Janelle De Souza Just Now Archbishop Charles Jason Gordon – File photo/Sureash Cholai The Roman Catholic Church will investigate allegations of child abuse in the December 2021 Judith Jones Report on children’s homes. In a press release on Wednesday, Archbishop Jason Gordon said the investigative team would include independent and qualified experts in the […]
Intelligence agency wary of Islamic radicalisation in Trinidad and Tobago
News Sean Douglas 6 Minutes Ago In this file photo, women walk in the al-Hol camp that houses some 60,000 refugees, including families and supporters of the Islamic State group, many of them foreign nationals, in Hasakeh province, Syria on May 1, 2021. – AP PHOTO THE Strategic Services Agency (SSA) annual report 2021 said […]
Trade barriers turn Georgetown Chamber against MOU with Trinidad and Tobago
News Ryan Hamilton-Davis 22 Minutes Ago Trade and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon – File photo The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has taken issue with a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Trinidad and Tobago Government and the Government of Guyana, citing non-tariff barriers as the reason for its disagreement. The chamber called […]
Frustrated cop waits for decision on reinstatement
News Jada Loutoo 14 Minutes Ago Justice Eleanor Donaldson-Honeywell. – A police officer is wondering how much longer he will have to wait before he gets word from the Commissioner of Police to go back to work. In February, a High Court judge ordered the commissioner to reconsider a decision to deem the police constable […]
Senator Welch warns of cannabis dangers
News Sean Douglas 6 Minutes Ago File photo: Independent Senator Evans Welch INDEPENDENT Senator Evans Welch recalled a youngster being sent to a psychiatric hospital after using marijuana, as he warned of the danger to untouched minds posed by the creation of a local legal cannabis industry, ostensibly for medical and religious purposes. He was […]
Penal parents protest for new school
News Laurel V Williams 8 Hrs Ago WE WANT A NEW SCHOOL: Parents protest outside the dilapidated St Dominic’s RC School in Penal on Tuesday. Photo by Marvin Hamilton Parents of pupils from the St Dominic’s RC School protested on Tuesday to highlight deplorable conditions at the Penal Community Centre. They also demanded that the […]
Stakeholders to get report on school violence this week
News Laurel V Williams 6 Hrs Ago File photo: Minister of Educatoin Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly. The Education Minister has said the inter-ministerial committee set up to address school violence is finalising a report to give to stakeholders this week. Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly added that government officials expect to meet with the stakeholders in two weeks. […]
Discussions ongoing to remove children from heliport
News Paula Lindo 2 Hrs Ago National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds. National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds said discussions are taking place between the Children’s Authority and the authorities in charge of the Chaguaramas Heliport for the relocation of three children located there. Responding to a question from Opposition Senator Wade Mark in the Senate on […]
What did my son do to you?
News Kinnesha George Just Now KILLED: N’Kosi Bovell, also known as Fari Dan. – Curtis Bovell, the father of murdered Trinibad artiste N’Kosi Bovell, wants to know what his son did to deserve such a gruesome end. On Sunday evening, 27-year-old Bovell, stage name Fari Dan, was liming with a group of friends shortly before […]
Let’s tackle root cause of crime
News Kinnesha George 3 Hrs Ago Kelvon Morris – It is time for the root cause of crime to be addressed, says THA Minority Leader Kelvon Morris. Morris was speaking to the media on Tuesday at a press conference hosted by the Minority Council in Scarborough. He extended condolences to the family of murdered dancehall […]
‘Outraged’ de Nobriga claims Sabga trying to deflect
News Ken Chee Hing 4 Minutes Ago Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Symon de Nobriga. FILE PHOTO – MINISTER in the Office of the Prime Minister Symon de Nobriga has expressed “outrage” at Robert Sabga – chairman of a Cabinet-appointed committee who also authored the committee’s report on abuse and violence against […]