BAE Systems Surface Ships and its Thai partner Bangkok Dock laid the keel of what will be the country's most advanced offshore patrol ship.The 295-foot, helicopter-capable corvette is based on the...

Prestige Holdings Limited concluded yesterday’s session as the volume leader with a volume of 355,220 shares being traded for a value of $1.24 million. National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited and...

Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Surujrattan Rambachan has met with a high-level delegation from the United States. The delegation included Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere affairs...

The burning house belonging to Lesie and Caran Ali on Church Road Junction in Mayaro. Mayaro pensioners Lesie and Caran Ali discovered their home on fire after visiting a heart specialist in...

CHATHAM, Massachusetts—A weakening Hurricane Earl swiped past North Carolina yesterday on its way to the northeastern US, where officials warned residents that it still packed dangerous winds. Earl...

AN attorney representing an elderly man who is charged with trafficking marijuana, pleaded yesterday with a San Fernando magistrate to have his bail conditions...

FIVE days after taking over from James Philbert as Acting Commissioner of Police (CoP) top cop Stephen Williams yesterday made administrative changes to his executive due to three senior officers...

Newsday has been reliably informed that cheques have been prepared for disbursement to some of the companies which provided goods and services to the NCRHA. In a release on Thursday the NCRHA said it...

THE Chaguanas Borough Corporation will have additional equipment in its fight against the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the carrier of the dreaded dengue fever, according to Mayor Orlando...

The announcement of scholarship recipients will be made early next week. This was disclosed by a reliable source who was not speaking in an official...

FORMER Commissioner of Prisons, Carlo McHoney, has noted that prisons officers today are living in dangerous times, and they must be dynamic to respond to the...

DEBE residents are calling on Works and Transport Minister, Jack Warner, to allow the construction of a lay-by in front of the Debe Road Hindu Primary School along the SS Erin Road so that students...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar provoked raw “Tobago love” yesterday evening as she met the Friday evening crowd at Scarborough. Persad-Bissessar walked the busy streets,shaking hands,...

Come Monday morning, the Biche High School will not be opened as promised by Education Minister Tim Gopeesingh. This was confirmed by ministry officials who said that emission tests still had to done...

The T&T Coast Guard Search and Rescue team rescued three Venezuelans and one Guyanese who had been adrift at sea for almost two days. A fifth Venezuelan national, Aspa Labi, 23, is still missing....

The family of two-year-old Saleil de Silva will no longer see her smile. Saleil, affectionately known as “Leyley,” died after she choked on her vomit on Thursday afternoon. A report said...

Founder of Animals are Humans Too in T&T, Nalini Dial, reacts to the directive of a policeman at the dog pound in San Fernando. Photo: Rishi Ragoonath Police were called in yesterday to...

The mother of prison escapee Ricardo Mahadeo, who was killed by police in July, has been fined $1,000 after pleading guilty to resisting arrest and using obscene language. Yesterday, Hemlawtie...

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar discusses government matters with Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, left, Minister of the People and Social Development Glenn Ramadharsingh and Local Government...

Former State attorney at the office of the Attorney General Rehanna Hosein has been appointed as a magistrate. She was appointed at a simple ceremony on August 23, at the Hall of Justice in...

Two women and a teenager are expected to appear in the Arima Magistrates’ Court on Monday, charged with possession of firearms and ammunition. The suspects, ages 21, 39 and 19, were arrested...

2006 Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence laureate Robert Yao Ramesar, left, receives his award from Anthony N Sabga, chairman emeritus of ANSA McAL, centre, and Sir Ellis Clarke. ...

A total of 21 employees of the Amalgamated Security Services will take part in the seventh annual King and Queen competition. The contestants promised to shine in three categories—Mr Amalgamated,...

Artist Coalition of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT) has presented Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar with its “cultural sector master plan” for next week’s budget. The group said it met with...

No evidence was taken yesterday when Khalil Karamath, son of late millionaire contractor Hafeez Karamath, and his wife, Sabeerah Mohammed, appeared in the Tunapuna Magistrates’ Court to answer gun,...

With the Caribbean still reeling from the effects of the global financial crisis, more attention is being placed on the development of small and medium...

Davis Cup player Yohansey Williams won his fifth consecutive title for 2010 as he led the Tobago charge in dominating the RBTT Tobago Open Tennis Championships that culminated at the Shaw Park Lawn...

The Trinidad and Tobago Secondary Schools Basketball Association will launch its 2010 season at the Chaguanas Indoor Facility on October 6. The change from hosting the League in the first term of...

Tobago will be privileged to enjoy the hosting of a Group Stage for the second hosting of a World Cup Final in Trinidad and Tobago, when the FIFA Under 17 Women World Cup Finals commence on Sunday. ...

This week the focus will be on a visit to the island by members of the People's Partnership (PP) Government headed by Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar. The government entourage was due to touch down in...

Before we deal with the new politics of Tobago, I would humbly use this opportunity to make an open and human appeal to the Executive of the Tobago Cricket Association to lift the two year ban...

Tournament football is as much about momentum as skill, strength or luck. Trinidad and Tobago’s U-17s, getting set to participate in their first women’s world finals, are finding their rhythm at...

Friday, 03 September 2010 12:01 When September rolled around, Zoe Boyd figured she’d be with her John Jay girls soccer teammates, tuning up for the high school season. Instead, the standout...

Tourism industry stakeholders from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago will participate in a...

"As this La Nina continues to build, we should see above-normal numbers of (September) and (October) storms," Matt Rogers, president and meteorologist with Commodity Weather Group in Bethesda,...

St Augustine Campus Principal Prof Clement Sankat says it is important for small island states like T&T to strike a balance between socio-economic development and conservation of its natural...

Grandmother Tora Andrews, Stephen Andrews, Anastacia Mc Gillvery and six-year-old Jeheil Gabriel stand in front of the collapsed house. PHOTO: RISHI RAGOONATH Moments before their wooden house...

Sharan Chandradath Singh, left, director of International Office, UWI; Prof Clement Sankat, UWI St Augustine campus principal; Anna Maria Brooks, of Republic Bank Ltd; Conrad Aleong, chairman of...

Rahman “Rock” Harper, winner of season three of Hell’s Kitchen, combines fun and flair with his exquisite culinary skills as he demonstrates the making of crab cakes. Occasion was the...

TOP: Minister of Justice Herbert Volney and his wife Tricia arrive for the awards ceremony. BOTTOM: Professor Selwyn Ryan and his wife Pat arrive at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, for the 48th...