NEWS
Girl, 5, in sex video
THE country’s innocent continue to be preyed upon by those in positions of trust.In the latest incident of sexual abuse against minors, police have seized a cell phone containing an explicit video of a five-year-old girl performing oral sex on the 31-yearold boyfriend of her mother. The man, a security guard, is on the run. The shocking content of the video was discovered by the child’s mother on Sunday night at her Rio Claro home after the boyfriend left his cell phone unattended in a washroom. Read more…
Deadly ambush
A Cascade man was gunned down while his wife was fighting for her life at hospital last night, having been beaten with a brick and chopped by the men who killed her husband. The couple was ambushed at Mt Hololo, Cascade, on Monday night.The couple’s two children watched on in horror as the men brutally attacked their parents as they walked through a track on the way home but were left unhurt, although they were severely traumatised. Read more…
Jail now free of weapons
Prisons Commissioner Sterling Stewart believes the Port of Spain Prison is now free of “destructive devices and weapons” as a result of Sunday’s search by security forces, in which every body cavity was searched in an operation code named “Clean Sweep”. Read more…
POLITICS
Jennings-Smith sworn in
NATIONAL Security Minister Edmund Dillon, yesterday welcomed the assistance given to his ministry by the appointment of two persons over the past week, telling reporters this was not an indictment on his performance as minister. “You have to understand that in treating with any security environment, there is no one person, no one entity that can treat with the many issues that confront us. In fact, if you’re treating with crime and criminality, I even welcome you, the members of the media, to play a part,” Dillon said. Read more…
Ministry must get act together
AFTER weeks of frustration and declining academic performance a sign language interpreter has resumed duties for two deaf students at El Dorado West Secondary.But a deaf support NGO says the Education Ministry must improve the services for the deaf students. Read more…
Kamla: Give soldiers powers of arrest
Opposition Leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, intends to seek the support of Prime Minister Keith Rowley to reintroduce a draft bill in Parliament to precept soldiers with police powers.Speaking at the Siparia Women’s Association Kiddies Carnival in Bhupsingh Park, Penal, yesterday, Persad-Bissessar said the bill would help in the fight against the rising crime rate. Read more…
BUSINESS
UTC head: Look for opportunities during recession
EVEN as companies and consumers face the reality of an economic downturn, they need to shift their focus and look for ways to capitalize on the myriad of opportunities that could arise during a recession, Unit Trust Corporation’s (UTC) Executive Director Ian Chinapoo has advised, during an address at Nestlé’s TT and Nestlé Caribbean’s 2016 Kick-Off meeting at Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre. Read more…
498 steel workers fired
Two weeks after retrenched ArcelorMittal workers resumed duties at the Point Lisas plant, the company has sent home 498 employees from today with no pay.The latest dismissals by the international steel producer saw 18 more people being sent home than the December 5 lay offs with the payroll department and port employees also receiving retrenchment letters yesterday. Read more…
TCL falls $0.20 to close at $3.69
Overall Market activity resulted from trading in seven securities of which two advanced, two declined and three traded firm.Trading activity on the first tier market registered a volume of 302,691 shares crossing the floor of the Exchange valued at $782,938.50. JMMB Group Ltd was the volume leader with 250,000 shares changing hands for a value of $137,500, followed by Prestige Holdings Ltd with a volume of 44,322 shares being traded for $454,300.50. Trinidad and Tobago NGL contributed 5,700 shares with a value of $108,300, while Trinidad Cement Ltd added 1,000 shares valued at $3,690. Read more…
REGIONAL
Bahamas government asks for more time on megaresort winding up
Months after filing a petition to wind up bankrupt megaresort Baha Mar, The Bahamas government, through its attorney, asked a Supreme Court judge on Monday to hold off on the winding up as “positive” signs exist for a resolution to the crisis, but more time is needed to get to that point.As a result, Supreme Court Justice Ian Winder adjourned the hearing to May 2. Monday was the second time the matter was adjourned. Read more…
Barbados Tourism Minister blasts union over industrial action at airport
Tourism Minister Richard Sealy has described as “wild”, the stance being taken by the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) which has threatened escalated industrial action at the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) over a contested pay increase. Read more...
INTERNATIONAL
Inside Syria: The farm airstrip that's the center of the U.S. fight against ISIS
The rutted road stretches into the distance across the plains of Hasakah. Herdsmen watch over their few dozen sheep. A scattering of oil pumps nod lazily as they extract a few dollars of crude from deep below. Above, the contrails left by coalition warplanes drift across the blue sky in hazy circles. Read more…
Zika virus infection 'through sex' reported in US
3rd February 2016