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Ryan eats a food

Proud Moment: Professor Selwyn Ryan greets Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissesar at the launch of Rhona Baptiste's book, Kamla: Ascent of a Woman, in November 2010

Professor gets $1M to write a report THE five-member Committee appointed by Cabinet to “enquire into the root causes of the problems identified and shown by crime statistics, particularly as it affects Trinidadian males, and to suggest solutions to problems they identify” has hit a snag over money. The delivery  read more…

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From left: TTRA Chairman DEREK CHIN (addressing the media conference), ARC Secretary ROBIN JAISINGH, Trade and Industry Minister STEPHEN CADIZ, ARC President Justice WENDELL KANGALOO and BLB Chairman KAMA MAHARAJ

George quits Betting Board

May 13th 2012 12:17 PM

THE Bookmakers Association (BA) acting President Peter George has resigned from the Betting Levy Board (BLB), saying he has become fed up over the stagnant state of the board. George, who is the BA representative on the BLB for more than six years, has cited the lack of innovation and  read more…

A fireman tries to put out the fire on Rapsey Street

Fire leaves 5 kids homeless

May 13th 2012 12:13 PM

A MOTHER of five had to be physically restrained on Friday morning when she returned to her Rapsey Street, Curepe home to see a raging fire engulfing the house. Sharmila Moonsammy began sobbing, telling firemen her dog was chained in the house, which had become a raging inferno and she  read more…

STANLEY LEE POW, agent of the Archbishop of Port of Spain, meets a Mission Village tenant at the front of her home this week.

Catholics got Toco land free

May 13th 2012 12:05 PM

LOCAL historian Michael Anthony says the Roman Catholic Church was granted 27 acres of land by the then Spanish Monarch, Carlos IV, back in 1783 under the Cedula of Population, and thus was established the village of Mission, on the outskirts of Toco. Anthony says the land was granted free  read more…

The $1.3 million Valencia Visitor Arrival Centre

No resort plans for land

May 13th 2012 12:04 PM

TURTLE Village Trust (TVT) chief executive officer Dr. Allan Bachan told TnT Mirror he is not aware of any plans by the TVT’s main financial backers, energy giants BHP Billiton and Atlantic LNG, to invest in an exclusive tourism resort in or near the village of Mission. The TVT, he  read more…

Roy Bishop... lived on the land for the past 32 years

Bishop: ‘The price is too high’

May 13th 2012 12:03 PM

Toco villagers in land row with RC Church VILLAGERS of the tiny village Mission in Toco are concerned that they may be forced off the land on which they have lived for decades, by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese who owns the land. Roy Bishop has lived at Lot 55, fronting  read more…

Trinidad and Tobago display at Miami Convention

Booth of shame

May 13th 2012 12:02 PM

Nationals knock TnT’s tourism display at Miami convention Even as he announced a $40 million plan to boost domestic tourism, Tourism Minister Dr Rupert Griffith is being hammered for a poor display put on by this country at a tourism trade show in Miami, USA. Trinidadians, both in Miami and  read more…

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