In Region Two, 38 persons, representing six entities, completed a two-day training exercise in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management conducted by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) at Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast.
(Trinidad Newsday) As if moved by the spirit, her voice cracking, Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development Verna St Rose-Greaves on Wednesday jumped around her seat in frustration in the Senate as she lamented the sexual abuse that has been meted out to children in this country over the years.
(Trinidad Express) A 25-year-old man has been ordered to serve a total of 105 years in prison for raping a 52-year-old mother and her 17-year-old daughter almost nine years ago.
(Trinidad Express) Express reporter Akile Simon and CCN TV6 cameraman Brendon Alexander were yesterday remanded in prison following their appearance before an Arima magistrate on charges of robbery in Arouca on Sunday.
(Trinidad Express) She didn’t use the term Cabinet reshuffle.
But Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced last night that she would undertake a “reconfiguration” of her Cabinet and of the membership of State boards.
A police constable was shot numerous times with arrows at Monkey Mountain Region Eight on Wednesday and had to be air dashed to Georgetown today for emergency medical attention.
A release from the Georgetown Hospital today said that at around 06:00h this morning, there was a temporary breakage of a 2” Main Waterline within the ceiling of the Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Centre (ACDC) building in the region of the Accident and Emergency Unit, which affected the smooth functioning of that and neighbouring departments.
Police say that at about 09:45 hrs. yesterday, ranks on a mobile anti crime patrol operating in police Division ‘D’ intercepted and executed a search of a vehicle with three male occupants on the Leonora Public Road and unearthed one .38 revolver with six (6) live matching rounds, found under the front passenger seat.
MILAN, (Reuters) – Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi paid for sex during at least one party at his luxury villa outside Milan, a witness said today at a trial where he is accused of paying for sex with an underage prostitute.
(Trinidad Guardian) A TT$2 million contract has been awarded by the Transport Ministry to security company Pegasus Limited to set up a Global Positioning System (GPS) for the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC).
(Trinidad Guardian) Former manager of the West Indies cricket team Omar Khan says the time has come for the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to have a full time sports psychologist attached to the team.
(Trinidad Express) Justice of Appeal Wendell Kangaloo will be flown to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, for further treatment as soon as doctors give his family the all clear allowing him to be moved.
(Trinidad Express) State carrier Caribbean Airlines (CAL) prepares to launch its new Port of Spain to London service next month, but with fewer flights than previously announced.
A section of the Meadow Bank wharf on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) collapsed this morning and fishermen subsequently listed a number of problems affecting the industry including a “dysfunctional” co-op society.
(Jamaica Observer) The US-based rating agency, Moody’s Investors Service, has downgraded the credit ratings of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) by one notch from Aaa to Aa1.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A June 8 sentencing date has been set for confessed Jamaican crime boss Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, who is facing 23 years behind bars in the United States on racketeering and conspiracy charges.