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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…

SoE led to drop in stolen vehicles in 2011
January 22nd 2012 12:32 PMTHERE 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…

Port of Spain, Tobago hotels sold out for Carnival
January 22nd 2012 11:59 AMNo 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…

Ganja shortage for Carnival
January 20th 2012 11:59 AMJamaicans 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…

Robberies escalate as Carnival nears
January 8th 2012 5:17 PMPolice 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…

State of Absurdity…
November 27th 2011 12:40 PMAt the height of Monday’s flooding disaster in Maraval an overseas friend who commented, “Why don’t we declare a state of emergency?” and who was very surprised when we told her that we were already under a state of emergency asked (jokingly): “What was the next step up?” Sometimes we read more…




