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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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Claudia Pegus

Crime and broken promises

April 20th 2012 12:09 PM

LAST week’s brutal murder of Indra Gangabissoon, like the spate of killings in La Horquetta and Laventille, was a reminder, if we needed any, that although crime may no longer dominates the front pages of the daily newspapers, Trinidad and Tobago remains as murderous a country as ever. And this,  read more…

TnT Mirror

SoE led to drop in stolen vehicles in 2011

January 22nd 2012 12:32 PM

THERE has been a decline in stolen vehicles over the past three years, according to statistics from the Stolen Vehicle Squad in Port of Spain. Last year there was a drastic drop and this may have been attributed to the State of Emergency (SoE) which was declared on August 21  read more…

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Port of Spain, Tobago hotels sold out for Carnival

January 22nd 2012 11:59 AM

No drop in masqueraders say bandleaders DESPITE the recently lifted State of Emergency (SoE) and the tensions between mas producers and the National Carnival Commission (NCC), hotels in both Trinidad and Tobago are reporting that they are booked to capacity for the upcoming Carnival season. Already Caribbean Airlines (CAL) recently  read more…

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Pee and Go In your bed

January 20th 2012 12:02 PM

Calypso inspired by SoE LYNCIA MORRIS, 37, created a stir when she was one of 15 contestants who auditioned last Saturday to vie for the finals of the Sangre Grande Calypso Monarch competition coming off on Friday, January 27 at The Woodz entertainment centre on the Eastern Main Road. Morris,  read more…

Piarco International Airport

Ganja shortage for Carnival

January 20th 2012 11:59 AM

Jamaicans traffic high-grade ‘weed’ at Piarco CUSTOMS and the Organised Crime, Narcotics and Firearms Bureau (OCNFB) are carrying out stringent checks on passengers arriving on flights from Jamaica to curb the smuggling of marijuana into the country. Piarco International Airport is now being used by drug traffickers since the customs  read more…

TnT Mirror

Robberies escalate as Carnival nears

January 8th 2012 5:17 PM

Police are bracing for an escalation in robberies during the pre-Carnival season. Since the state of emergency (SoE) came to an end last month there has been a spate of armed robberies throughout the country leading up to Christmas. And with Carnival in the air, bandits are desperate to find  read more…

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