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Senator Wade Mark says Government must clear the air on why the Public Utilities Ministry has reportedly signed a contract to pay $500,000 a month on a building it will not move into until next year May. Mark raised the issue on Friday when the Joint...
Tags: تئاتر عروسكي, بخش صحنه, Mark, اي جشنواره, جشنواره تئاتر, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Politics
The 17-year-old of Sixth Company Village, Moruga pleaded not guilty to the charge of robbery with violence. It is alleged that last Saturday, Indar Mohan was walking in Barrackpore when a car pulled alongside him and the occupants demanded money...He...
Tags: Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Barrackpore, Geography of Trinidad and Tobago, Moruga, Princes Town, Law Crime
Breathalyser coming 'soon' Monday, November 23rd 2009 IN the face of the great anticipation which attended the passage of the long-awaited breathalyser legislation, as noted in this newspaper over the last week, the announced delay in the roll out of...
Tags: Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Speed limit, Police, Law enforcement, Traffic law, Road safety
A cocktail of unhealthy habits Monday, November 23rd 2009 The Government’s initiative to implement a healthy lifestyle policy is a welcome one that’s been long overdue. Smoking (whether first- or second-hand smoke), alcohol abuse and unhealthy diets...
Tags: Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Healthy diet, Diabetes mellitus, Smoking, Chutney music, Nutrition, Diabetes, Dietetics, Health Medical Pharma
Tackling the real smoking issue Monday, November 23rd 2009 The real problem with smoking in general is not casual smoking, e.g. after-dinner or at outdoor functions. It is smoking as an addiction and being exposed repeatedly to second-hand smoke in confined...
Tags: Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Tobacco, Smoking
Dissecting the property tax Michael Harris Monday, November 23rd 2009 There had been such immediate and widespread condemnation of the Government’s property tax proposal when it was first presented by the Madame Minister of Finance in her 2009-2010 Budget...
Tags: property tax, market value, madame minister, ARV, tax proposed, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Taxation in the United Kingdom, Real property law, Tax, Valuation, Rates, Business Finance, Finance, Property taxes, Local taxation
Jason Ellis John testified last week that he was not at the scene of the murder he is accused of committing. John said he was liming at Siparia and San Fernando with his friend, Felicia James, who is also called ’Arlene’...John, 30, of Lorrensotte Village,...
Tags: Jason Ellis John, Mark Teeluck, Narvin Nandlal, Armanath Moonilal, Palo Seco Sporting Club, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Law Crime
Keino Swamber South Bureau Monday, November 23rd 2009 THE State has agreed to pay more than $38,000 to a businessman who sued after after being wrongfully prosecuted following a vehicular accident four years ago. Wazrudeen Shah was driving his car along...
Tags: Trevor Skinner, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Disaster Accident, Law Crime
Fireone made best bid for stadium flag Juhel Browne jbrowne@trinidadexpress.com Monday, November 23rd 2009 Sport Minister Gary Hunt says the second closest bid for the large controversial national flag at the Hasely Crawford Stadium that cost taxpayers...
Tags: flag pole, Fireone Fireworks, caribbean games, Vasant Bharath, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Sprinters, Hasely Crawford
Change boundaries in six constituencies Monday, November 23rd 2009 The Elections and Boundaries Commission has recommended boundary changes in six constituencies in Trinidad and the renaming of two constituencies. The report, which was tabled in Parliament,...
Tags: Princes Town North, Princes Town South/Tableland, EBC, Trinidad and Tobago, Princes Town, Moruga, Elections in Trinidad and Tobago, Toco, Ince, United Kingdom constituencies, Geography of Trinidad and Tobago, Cumuto