Category: Queen’s Park

News Yvonne Webb 19 Minutes Ago Open-pyre cremations continue for non-covid19 victims at the Caroni Cremation Site, North Bank Road, Caroni on Friday. – ROGER JACOB WHILE Government has lifted the contentious ban on open-air pyre cremation for covid19 victims, a date for resumption of this traditional Hindu practice has not yet been announced. Maha […]

News Yvonne Webb 2 Hrs Ago An attendant tends to a burnt funeral pyre of a non-covid victim at the Caroni Cremation Site, North Bank Road, Caroni on Friday. – ROGER JACOB BOTH the Paramachyra of Hindu organisation SWAHA, Pundit Hardeo Persad, and Couva South MP Rudy Indarsingh have welcomed the lifting restrictions on open-air […]

News Jada Loutoo 5 Minutes Ago FILE PHOTO: Long lines to hand up the property tax forms at Palms Club, Point-a-Pierre Road, San Fernando, on May 15, 2017. – The Court of Appeal has ruled the Government’s attempt to implement the property tax in 2017 was illegal, as it imposed a fine for non-compliance, although […]

Sports Jelani Beckles 6 Minutes Ago Ackeem Auguste – WEST Indies lost their opening match of the 2022 International Cricket Council Under-19 World Cup by six wickets to Australia in Group D at Guyana National Stadium in Providence, on Friday. Chasing 170 for victory, opener Teague Wyllie anchored the Australia innings with 86 not out […]

News Sean Douglas 10 Minutes Ago File photo: Jayanti Lutchmedial ATTORNEY Jayanti Lutchmedial has said the new Police Service Commission (PSC) should give some details of the reasoning behind its decision to scrap the Commissioner of Police (CoP) merit list compiled by the previous PSC. She spoke to Newsday on Friday in her personal capacity, […]

News Sean Douglas 14 Hrs Ago SELECTED: Judy Sookdeo, the PNM’s candidate for the Debe bye election. – THE PNM has chosen supervisor/radio broadcaster Judy Sookdeo as its candidate for the upcoming Debe South by-election, while the UNC has screened several candidates. Sookdeo was a 2019 candidate in the Penal/Debe Regional Corporation, but for the […]

News Jada Loutoo 9 Minutes Ago Justice Judith Jones – THERE will be a new selection process for the office of the Commissioner of Police. As a result, a new list of contenders to the top cop position will be generated after the process is completed to be sent to the President for a notification […]

News Jada Loutoo 4 Hrs Ago FILE PHOTO: A mourner looks at burning pyres at the Caroni Cremation Site, Caroni Savannah Road on May 26, 2021. – SUREASH CHOLAI THE BAN on open-air pyre cremations of covid19 fatalities has been lifted. The announcement came on Thursday from Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi in a statement to […]

News Sean Douglas 37 Minutes Ago THE House of Representatives will on Friday debate ten regulations towards enacting the partially-proclaimed Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Act 2015, amid uncertainty as to when the rest of the act will be proclaimed. Similar regulations were laid in the House last July and last December, two […]

News Shane Superville 2 Hrs Ago Gary Griffith – Former police commissioner Gary Griffith says he is not surprised by the Police Service Commission (PSC) decision to restart the selection process for a new commissioner. He described the decision as an abuse of a flawed Consitution. A media release from the PSC on Thursday announced […]

News Tyrell Gittens 5 Minutes Ago Devon Richards, father of missing teenager Mariah Richards looks at a photo of her on his phone at his home on First Branch Trace, Monkey Town, New Grant. – AYANNA KINSALE Even if they just give her money to travel and find her way home, retired fireman Devon Richards […]

News Paula Lindo Just Now The list of rapid antigen/antibody test kits that have received the Chemistry, Food and Drugs Division’s “No Objection” for importation into the country – courtesy Ministry of Health The Health Ministry has issued a list of the rapid antigen/antibody test kits that have received a no-objection letter from the Chemistry, […]