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President Paula-Mae Weekes addresses the audience at the Divali Nagar, Chaguanas, on Wednesday night.
President Paula-Mae Weekes addresses the audience at the Divali Nagar, Chaguanas, on Wednesday night.

Trinidad President knocked for mispronouncing Hindu words

(Trinidad Express) President Paula-Mae Weekes has been chided by citizens over her mispronunciation of several Hindi words during her address at the 2022 Divali Nagar on Wednesday night.

Sheldon Lewis
Sheldon Lewis

Two shot dead in Trinidad over cow

(Trinidad Express) A double homicide in Wallerfield over a cow, killings in Carenage, Pleasantville and late yesterday on Henry Street in Port of Spain have pushed the murder toll to 477 for the year.

CAL accused of flying Cubans to Guyana without licence

(Trinidad Guardian) State-owned Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) has until today to respond to a lawsuit filed by a Florida-based travel service provider that has accused this country’s national carrier for accepting payments from United States citizens to provide transportation for their Cuban relatives to travel between Cuba and Guyana to access US consular services.

Allison Skinner-Bacchus and her curtain

Trinidad woman wears curtain to enter gov’t office  

(Trinidad Guardian) After being barred from entering the Treasury building to change cheques on Monday because her shoulders were exposed, Arouca caterer Allison Skinner-Bacchus draped herself in a curtain she had in her vehicle and unintentionally reignited the national debate on the dress code for government offices.

Theresa Lynch

Trinidad woman feared dead after being washed away

(Trinidad Guardian) Members of the T&T Fire Service Search and Rescue team, the Hunters Search and Rescue team, T&T Police Service and villagers were on Wednesday night trying to locate a farmer who was feared dead after she was washed away by floodwaters while attempting to cross a ravine in Surrey Village, Lopinot.

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