OUR COVER STORY

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…

More news stories on tnt mirror
0001 Typical Scrunter: The veteran bard assists 88-year-old Stella Rambaran as she crosses the street in Sangre Grande

Curfew or no curfew… the parang must go on

October 2nd 2011 1:38 AM

Irwin 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…

In this 2009 photo Austal has successfully launched the first of six 30 metre aluminium fast patrol craft being built for the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard at its Western Australian shipyard

Curfew ‘solution’ for fishermen

September 25th 2011 10:47 PM

The 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…

BEVERLY PHILLIP, Director, Maritime Division, Ministry of Transport (left) and Tourism Minister Dr. RUPERT GRIFFITH unveil the plaque to formally open the refurbished Toco lighthouse. Looking on at right is Tourism Development Company (TDC) executive, ALEEM MOHAMMED

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

‘Breadfruit’ ordered to stay indoors during curfew

September 23rd 2011 7:09 AM

EVEN 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…

The Hon. Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar

I told you so, Kamla

September 18th 2011 2:22 AM

SINCE 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…

Councillor Martin Terry Rondon

PNM councillor seeks curfew permits for 60 Toco fishermen

September 18th 2011 2:07 AM

SENIOR 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…

  • Photo Galleries

    Roxanne Omalo portrays Last Dance of the Enchanted Witches Rose Marie Kuru Jagessar's Wachiwi-I Dream of a Bustle Dancer King of Carnival Roland St. George's Ralliez-Vouz A Mon Panache Blanc Kurt Allen took the second spot Karene Asche sings Against All Odds Gerard Weekes portrays Malak Yahweh - The Praying Mantis National Calypso Monarch Duane O'Conor Queen of Carnival Chariss Bovell's Mother of Humanity - The Weeping Madonna
  • Advertisement

    TnT Mirror Facebook Ad

Facebook

Tweets


Follow @tntmirror

Blog