Trade unions are voicing that they are still going to engage a national shutdown. The unions have shifted their plans to shut down the country, in protest of government’s five percent wage offer.  According to head of the OWTU, Ancel Roget, the shutdown will most likely occur after the state of emergency is lifted.  Roget maintains that the struggle will continue once workers have not received justice on the issue of the five percent offer. [...]

As the crime problem is being addressed on one side with the state of emergency and curfew…..on the other side….another problem has popped up….businesses are finding themselves in a difficult position ….how do they meet their payments to the bank… Especially businesses which operate at nights…such as clubs…. Chairman of popular 51 Degrees Theron Marquez says the club has already approached the bank…. In a matter of one week….51 Degrees has seen its revenue fall [...]

Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says it’s because of the PNM wild spending when it was in power…the government has to find over $21BN to pay off debts. Speaking in Parliament today on a motion to increase government’s borrowing…the Prime Minister says Udecott alone has $3.4 BN in debts. Nipdec raked up a debt at $4.9BN and Nidco has $791M in debts. But it doesn’t stop there the list goes on…almost every state company is in [...]

A member of the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission’s maintenance crew was this morning electrocuted while on the job. Shortly after 10am today, the maintenance crew was conducting repairs in front of the Food Masters Supermarket, located on Eastern Main Road Tunapuna, when the incident occurred. Reports are that, apprentice/trainee, Richy Rivers, said to be in his mid 20’s of Rio Claro, got entangled in some high tension wires. He was conducting works on a [...]

A quantity of camouflage clothing has been found in Lopinot during a police exercise. Between 4am and 9am today, officers of the Northern Division, spearheaded by Sup. Int. Bulling and Insp. Seecharan, conducted an exercise in the Lopinot valley area. There they arrested three persons on inquires related to serious crimes in the area, as well as a 39-year-old man who was found with a quantity of camouflage uniforms. The man is expected to appear [...]

Not all scrap yards are operating with a licence. This was the disclosure made by Chairman of the Association Adam Ferguson. He made the comment on Wednesday morning stating that there many scarp yards operating illegally. Hwever it’s the governement responsibility to shut them down.

A shootout with police officers on Tuesday has left one man nursing injuries at the Eric Williams Medical Complex. Around 4pm yesterday, officers of the Organised Crime, Narcotics and Firearms Bureau, acting on information, attempted to intercept a vehicle in the Mt. Hope area. However, the car sped off and the occupants fired shots at the police. A high-speed chase then ensued with the police returning fire. The car came to a stop in the [...]

Help is on the way for stranded PTSC passengers.  Commuters can now use the Public Transport Service Corporation’s (PTSC’s) hotline 474-0005 to alert the corporation if they are left stranded.  Passengers on any of the Corporation’s service routes throughout Trinidad and Tobago can call in to our hotline number or send us a text message so that we can immediately ensure that our vehicles are dispatched to your route. We believe that it is very [...]

A father and his 15-year-old son have been charged with being members of a gang. Kenneth “Spanish” Rodriguez and his son went to court yesterday, after being arrested on Monday.  They are believed to be members of a gang in Beetham Gardens. Rodriguez, of 24th Street, Beetham Gardens and his son stood before chief magistrate Aarcia Ayers-Caesar.  It was his son’s second appearance, as the first was on September 2nd. The teenager, who is a [...]

A vendor is currently warded at hospital after he was shot during an attempted robbery. Reports state that around 8pm on Tuesday, mobile cart vendor, Christopher Parris of Malabar Branch Road, Arima was pushing his cart along the branch road when a car pulled along side him. One of the occupants exited the vehicle and pointed a gun at 49-year-old Parris, who turned and attempted to run away. The man then fired a shot at [...]