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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…

George quits Betting Board
May 13th 2012 12:17 PMTHE 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…

Fire leaves 5 kids homeless
May 13th 2012 12:13 PMA 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…

Catholics got Toco land free
May 13th 2012 12:05 PMLOCAL 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…

No resort plans for land
May 13th 2012 12:04 PMTURTLE 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…

Bishop: ‘The price is too high’
May 13th 2012 12:03 PMToco 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…

Booth of shame
May 13th 2012 12:02 PMNationals 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…



