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  • Windies carrying World T20 confidence to Champions Trophy

    West Indies head coach Otis Gibson says the Caribbean cricketers will arrive in England for the Champions Trophy full of confidence on the strength of their triumph at the World T20 last year. Gibson, playing down suggestions that the Windies could be under pressure to perform, says the success in Sri Lanka late last year, could instead provide a fillip. The Windies head coach was speaking at ...

  • Biden visits South America Caribbean

    US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Colombia on Sunday as he launched a six-day tour that will also take him to the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, and ...

  • Assemblymen want salariesoffice expenses paid

    Leaders of Assembly business, Assemblywoman Claudia Groome-Duke piloted a motion at the last sitting of the Tobago House of Assembly that called for the "payments of salaries, allowances, and other conditions of the service to office holders of the Assembly, namely: the Chief Secretary, the Presiding Officer, the Deputy Presiding Officer, the Deputy Chief Secretary, other Secretaries, and ...

  • ‘It’s the big one’

    Chief Secretary Orville London has described the expose of e-mails by Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley in the House of Representatives on Monday as "the big one" and it would not end in a draw. He said an independent inquiry into the matter which alleges wrong doing by senior government official was necessary. "There are game changers and there are game deciders, and ...

  • Confident Toppin takes on Coker

    Tobago-East Representative Vernella Alleyne Toppin is not yet ready to ride out into the political sunset. In fact, the prominent politician is indicating that she is willing to do whatever it takes to ensure the Tobago Organisation of the People continues to be relevant to the people of Tobago. Toppin has mounted a challenge against the incumbent chairman of the party, Lionel Coker. The party ...


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Movie Review

Billy Elliot

Much like the art of ballet itself, BillyElliot, the story of an 11-year-old boy from working-class northern England, maintains an impressively delicate balancing act throughout its duration between the whimsically comical tale of the boy's desire to be a ballet dancer and the backdrop of hard-edged, violent realism against which it is set. The film's tone shifts constantly, keeping the au ... ...

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  • Police Complaints Authority Office for Tobago

    Tobago will have its very own full-time operational office of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) by the end of June. The PCA cannot see itself as being efficient if there is one office in Trinidad and no office in Tobago and Tobago cannot be considered to be equally treated to Trinidad and there is no PCA office on the island. The statements came from the Director of the PCA as she spoke at a ...

  • $300m for 9000 workers

    The more than 9000 daily paid and monthly paid workers of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) will have to endure some more suffering before they can know precisely when they will be getting their back-pay. This was disclosed to us by Chief Administrator of the Assembly, Dr. Ellis Burris when he was asked about the information from an earlier press release. Dr. Burris told us via the telephone ...

  • No ‘Ole Talk’ says Lucky

    "We are serious about Tobago, and it is not any 'ole talk'," assured director of the Police Complaints Authority, Gillian Lucky. She was speaking at a community meeting held by the PCA in Argyle on Monday. The purpose of the town meetings was to engage the public on the PCA's community outreach campaign. Lucky said the people of Tobago must feel confident about what the ...

  • Budget day is June 24

    The Tobago House of Assembly will present its 2013 budget presentation on June 24. This announcement was made by THA Chief Secretary Orville London during the weekly media briefing. This will be the first budget presentation, for Finance Secretary Joel Jack. Jack was thrust into this role, following the January 21 THA elections. Jack told this paper he is feeling good for his first ...

  • Tobago News set for political cartoons

    The Tobago News, starting next Sunday, will feature an on-going series of political cartoons. This new and exciting addition to the Sunday edition will be a humorous and satirical take on the politics and current events of the day. With an up and coming cartoonist MK Lashley on board, this feature will cause our readership to reflect, analyse, and engage the issues of the day on a deeper level, ...

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