Sookoonsingh tops South-East Zone
Published: Monday, November 24, 2014Ishwar Sookoonsingh walked away with the prestigious Cricketer of the Year honour when the South-East Zonal Council of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) staged its...
View ArticleSports tourism—tool for development
Anand RampersadPublished: Monday, November 24, 2014SportificationMega and small scale sport tourism has the potential to contribute to the social, cultural, economic and infrastructural development of...
View ArticleLewis sails on with new coach
Sean NeroPublished: Monday, November 24, 2014Olympic sailor Andrew Lewis is revamping his training technique in preparation for participation in pre-Olympic qualifying event now taking place around the...
View ArticleTobago schools bigger next year says Cadette
Sean NeroPublished: Monday, November 24, 2014Tobago will return bigger and stronger at next year’s Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) says Huey Cadette, secretary for Sport, Education and Youth...
View ArticleSomeone’s murdering Tobago’s tourism
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2014The macabre murders of the elderly German couple in Bacolet, Tobago on Saturday have come at the worst possible time for the island’s tourism-driven economy.I was...
View ArticleAn appeal could never be immoral
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2014I read, with some consternation, a letter to the editor of your newspaper on November 22 regarding a judgment of the Industrial Court in a matter between NP and...
View ArticleNo bail for trio on gun, ammo, drug charges
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2014Two men and a woman were denied bail yesterday when they appeared before an Arima Magistrate charged with possession of four guns, three kilogrammes of marijuana...
View ArticleTractor driver drowned after death plunge
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2014An excavator driver who plunged over a 40-foot precipice in Santa Cruz during road repairs on Saturday drowned, according to an autopsy report. The autopsy also...
View ArticleCarmona backs call for HRM mediation
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2014President Anthony Carmona yesterday endorsed a proposal of mediation to resolve the dispute between the Highway Re-route Movement (HRM) and the government over the...
View ArticleAboud: EMA didn’t clear Debe segment
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2014Secretary of the environmental lobby group, Fishermen and Friends of the Sea, Gary Aboud is claiming six government agencies and the Environmental Management...
View ArticleKublalsingh’s wife fed up of ‘charade’
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2014Dr Sylvia Moodie-Kublalsingh, wife of leader of the Highway Re-Route Movement (HRM) Dr Wayne Kublalsingh, who is normally accommodating to members of the media,...
View ArticleCall for help to rebuild church
Radica SookrajPublished: Tuesday, November 25, 2014The San Fernando City Corporation has turned down a request to help rebuild a wall at a Baptist church saying that it was a private matter.A landslip...
View ArticleState moves to save Greyfriars
Kalifa ClynePublished: Tuesday, November 25, 2014National Diversity Minister Rodger Samuel says he has not yet received any proposals relating to the future of the historic Greyfriars Church, Frederick...
View ArticleChaguanas North protests Caps’ InterCol trophy win
...Coach claims dishonest record keepingPublished: Wednesday, November 26, 2014The referees who officiated the semifinal of the Coca Cola InterCol competition between Presentation College of Chaguanas...
View ArticleGriffith’s CPL plans anger T&TCB
Published: Wednesday, November 26, 2014A proposal currently before Cabinet for the allocation of more than US$7 million towards the staging of the semifinals and final of the Caribbean Premier League...
View ArticleSimmons hopes Hughes recovers as well as he did
Published: Wednesday, November 26, 2014LONDON—Former West Indies batsman Phil Simmons says he hopes Australia’s Phil Hughes is as lucky as he was with his recovery from a serious head injury. Hughes is...
View ArticleWomen Warriors receive $1.5m today
Published: Wednesday, November 26, 2014Senior women’s national team players, coaching and management staff will today receive a total of $1.5 million in Cabinet-approved funds for their participation...
View ArticleCarriah, Ramdin out against Jamaica
Vinode MamchanPublished: Wednesday, November 26, 2014Young batsman Yannic Carriah is out for the third round WICB Professional Cricket League (PCL) against Jamaica, starting at the Queen’s Park Oval on...
View ArticleBringing men together in the shed
Shereen AliPublished: Wednesday, November 26, 2014In the final part of our three-part series on old men and loneliness, Shereen Ali looks at Men’s Sheds, a way to keep men connected. The idea started...
View ArticleStigma against mental illness is the product of ignorance
Caroline C RavelloPublished: Wednesday, November 26, 2014Stigma is when a person views another individual in a subjective manner because that individual has a distinguishing mark, physical...
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