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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…

Curfew or no curfew… the parang must go on
October 2nd 2011 1:38 AMIrwin Reyes Johnson, aka Scrunter, the Soca Parang Master, says he is not going to allow the curfew restrictions to deter him. Last weekend he launched a new soca parang song titled “Daytime Parang”. Musical arranger Joey Rivers did the musical accompaniment while Myron Bruce engineered and mastered the sound. read more…

Curfew ‘solution’ for fishermen
September 25th 2011 10:47 PMThe T&T Coast Guard has thrown a lifeline for the nation’s embattled fishermen, giving guidelines on how they can fish within the three nautical miles offshore while the 11pm to 4am nightly curfew is on. A spokesman for the Coast Guard, Lieutenant Archer, explained that the National Security Ministry has read more…

Tourism Minister welcomes curfew in Toco
September 23rd 2011 9:23 AM… and touts restored lighthouse as tourist attraction TOCO Sangre Grande MP Dr. Rupert Giffith went on record on Monday welcoming the 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. curfew slapped on the more than 10,000 residents of the Toco-Fishing Pond electoral district on Trinidad’s north-east coast from last week Tuesday. Griffith, read more…

‘Breadfruit’ ordered to stay indoors during curfew
September 23rd 2011 7:09 AMEVEN Breadfruit, leader of the Mother Nature back-to-earth cult, is feeling the pinch from the curfew enforced in Toco and environs since last week Tuesday. The forest-dwelling Breadfruit, who lives on a 10-acre ranch in the Cachipa forest on the outskirts of Matelot, was found hunting in the bush by read more…

I told you so, Kamla
September 18th 2011 2:22 AMSINCE the 21 “bad boys” from Nelson Street are set to get thousands of dollars from the State, according to some legal luminaries, for being wrongfully incarcerated following their arrest under the Anti-Gang legislation, I want the Government to pay me as well. No, I have not been locked up read more…

PNM councillor seeks curfew permits for 60 Toco fishermen
September 18th 2011 2:07 AMSENIOR Superintendent Derrick Trim, who heads the Police Service Eastern Division, is being asked to take steps to provide the 60 full-time fishermen from the Matelot to Matura (M2M) network of villages on the north-east coast with curfew permits. The approach to Supt Trim was made by Toco-Fishing Pond electoral read more…



