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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…

Bacchus, ‘paymee’ king of Toco
March 30th 2012 12:03 PMRoger Bacchus, 36, has become know in the past five months as the paymee king of Toco. Bacchus is an employee of the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure’s sub-office at Galera Road, Toco, but on Tuesdays and Thursdays the Beggs Trace resident finds the time to make a batch of read more…

Protestors say Griffith must go
March 9th 2012 11:58 AMUNC activists from Toco/Sangre Grande/Valencia areas staged a noisy protest outside MP Dr. Rupert Griffith Office on Tuesday to protest the high level of unemployment, and lack of Food Cards, to the poor and needy. The villagers made several allegations against Griffith over the award of CEPEP contracts, to persons read more…

Wanted man wreaks havoc in Toco
February 19th 2012 12:03 PMResidents plead for police assistance over Carnival weekend A TOCO MAN, who was arrested in 2005 along with two others for kidnapping the granddaughter of a businessman, is wreaking havoc on homeowners in the Toco area and is believed to be behind a string of robberies and thefts following his read more…

Protestors: Griffith a waste of time
January 27th 2012 11:59 AM“GRIFFITH, Griffith; fix we road; fix it, fix it,” was the favourite refrain of the scores of protesters from villages from Toco to Matelot on Monday as they staged a second blockage of the roadway to highlight its appalling state of disrepair. The first protest was at Sans Souci, at read more…

Griffith: Do they expect me to run and meet them every time they protest?
January 27th 2012 11:58 AMTOCO-SANGRE GRANDE MP Dr. Rupert Griffith is condemning the northeast coast villagers for staging two wildcat protests last week and this week and publicly calling for him as well as Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner to come and meet them at the protest sites. Reached at his Sangre Grande read more…

Fishermen suffer $2 million in storm losses
December 9th 2011 11:17 PMFishermen in Grand Riviere, Toco are counting their losses amounting to more than $2 million in the aftermath of the storm that battered the remote villages along the east coast on Saturday night President of the Grand Riviere Fishing Association Darron Aron told TnT Mirror that the fishermen are still read more…



