NEWS
Chaguanas North Sec schoolboy arrested, charged
A 16-YEAR-OLD student of the troubled Chaguanas North Secondary School was arrested and charged after police found details of a ‘hit’ planned for yesterday on a security officer posted at the school. The schoolboy has been charged with assault by threatening to inflict bodily harm and is expected to appear before a Chaguanas Magistrate today at the Tunapuna Administrative Complex. Read more…
Attackers watch as couple die
After mother of two, Abiola Noel, and her on-again off-again boyfriend, Andre La Touche, had been shot in Laventille yesterday, their killers spent a few moments peering at them as they lay dying in order to satisfy themselves that the job had been done. Read more…
TTUTA head: Total revamp needed
TRINIDAD and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) president Devanand Sinanan said yesterday a total revamp of the education system was needed, as the current one was skewed towards one segment of pupils. Read more…
POLITICS
Minister Dillon assures TT: Plenty Water
PUBLIC Utilities Minister Ancil Antoine yesterday assured that there is an adequate water supply for all citizens as the country goes thorugh an intense dry season. Read more…
End political appointments to Industrial Court
Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus says her Government fully supports the depoliticisation of appointments to the Industrial Court as recommended by the Industrial Relations Advisory Committee (IRAC). Read more…
BUSINESS
Beverage producers mull sugar cut
DR ROHIT Doon, Advisor on Public Health in the Ministry of Health, says beverage manufacturers have undertaken to meet with officials of the Ministry in three months to say what they intend to do, to reduce levels of sugar in beverages sold to the public. Read more…
Minister intervenes in labour dispute
LABOUR Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus has intervened in the dispute between steel giant ArcelorMittal and its laid-off workers, who have now been paid a portion of their basic wages.Speaking to reporters after the Tripartite Stakeholder Consultations on the Industrial Relations (Amendments) Bill 2015 at the National Energy Skills Centre in Couva yesterday, Baptiste-Primus said Government's concern was the welfare of the steel workers. Read more…
REGIONAL
Bahamas foreign minister accused of contempt of court
A prominent attorney said on Sunday he will seek to have Bahamas foreign affairs and immigration minister Fred Mitchell committed to prison for contempt of court over his statements on the court-ordered release of two Cuban nationals. Read more…
Jamaica activates national influenza plan following spike in Swine Flu cases
The Ministry of Health is putting measures in place to prepare the health sector for more influenza cases, following an increase in cases of H1N1, commonly referred to as Swine Flu, and one death linked to that illness. And Minister of Health Horace Dalley says he has instructed the National Emergency Operations Centre team to activate the national influenza plan. Read more…
INTERNATIONAL
Egypt: Toddler sentenced to life in apparent case of mistaken identity
A 3-year-old Egyptian boy has been sentenced to life in prison for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 16 months old.In what appears to be a bizarre case of mistaken identity, a military court last week found Ahmed Mansour Qorany Sharara -- and 115 others -- guilty of killing three people and sabotaging public and private property. Read more…
Can technology help us improve upon reality?
Imagine walking on Mars and being able to examine rock formations from all angles, or collaborating on the same 3D hologram design with someone thousands of miles away. Read more…
23rd February 2016