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The shed, which is located next to the Waterfront and the Hyatt Regency hotel on Wrightson Road, is regarded by the ten vendors there as the ’number one place in Trinidad and Tobago where you could get real creole food’...

St Vincent leader's constitutional reform in danger Andy Johnson Kingstown Thursday, November 26th 2009 A series of ’feelings of the ground’, as they say here, would have told Vincentians yesterday that only by a miracle was the governing party going...

Public servants yesterday turned out in their numbers to cast their ballots for a new leader of the Public Services Association (PSA). Up to press time last night, however, the official results had not been released and a winner had...

People’s National Movement labour minister Larry Achong got a birthday present yesterday, when he was found not guilty of using obscene language against a Hindu pundit. The former member of parliament for Point Fortin was accused of using an obscenity...

Nelson Street, Port of Spain, residents on Tuesday night as they vented their rage after police officers shot and killed a boy from the area hours before. The protest over what they described as police brutality in the killing of...

Valencia mother had to bear the sight of her son’s body on a metal slab at the Forensic Science Centre in St James after he was shot and killed in Malabar the night before. Police were last night still questioning...

Travelling within region way too hard' Aretha Welch awelch@trinidadexpress.com Thursday, November 26th 2009 Travelling within the Caribbean is way too hard, says Dr Compton Bourne, president of the Caribbean Development Bank. Bourne said, ’Anyone who travels through the region knows...

He said while answering telephone hotlines set up to give the public information on the issue, he had received reports of ’unscrupulous landlords’, specifically in the St Augustine area, raising rents due to ’property taxes’. He made the comment at...

This time the concerns were more with political rather than with industrial action. I point out without delay that in democratic societies it is the right of citizens to demand good governance. English philosopher, Edmund Burke, who in 1799 declared,...

Le Gendre's measures are no solutions Thursday, November 26th 2009 On the issues of pupils’ misbehaviour and social decay, the problem is not a dearth of enforcement of laws and rules. A culture tolerant of anarchy, of disrespect for authority,...