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Monday, March 24, 2025

Opinion

Economist Dr Marlene Attzs

Economist Dr Marlene Attzs

Navigating the economic storms facing T&T

In the Caribbean, we are no strangers to tradewinds–those pow­er­ful cur­rents that shape our is­lands’ des­tiny, both lit­er­al­ly and fig­u­ra­tive­ly. But be­yond the ge­o­graph­ic forces, there are gusty eco­nom­ic, geopo­lit­i­cal, and pol­i­cy trade tradewinds that de­mand our at­ten­tion. Right now, these tradewinds are blow­ing with an in­ten­si­ty that threat­ens the eco­nom­ic sur­vival of coun­tries such as ours.

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Terry Aaron

Terry Aaron

Murder victim’s family appeals for justice

The fam­i­ly of 36-year-old Ter­ry Aaron is call­ing for jus­tice who was gunned down last No­vem­ber 9.

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Mon Mar 24 2025
Dr Joel Teelucksingh, Consultant in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, and Diabetes

Dr Joel Teelucksingh, Consultant in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, and Diabetes

Dr Teelucksingh reinstated, vows to keep writing columns

Promi­nent en­docri­nol­o­gist Dr Joel Teelucks­ingh will con­tin­ue to pub­lish his opin­ion columns in the T&T Guardian and host his Ask the Doc­tor show on CNC3 al­though the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) is in­ves­ti­gat­ing his con­duct fol­low­ing the pub­li­ca­tion of his satir­i­cal com­men­tary, The Em­per­or’s New Hos­pi­tal.

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KEVON FELMINE
Mon Mar 24 2025
Tobago chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce Curtis Williams

Tobago chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce Curtis Williams

Tobago Chamber hopes crime won’t spike when SoE ends

To­ba­go’s busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty is hope­ful that crime will stay un­der con­trol once the state of emer­gency (SoE) is lift­ed.

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Mon Mar 24 2025
UNC political leader  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

UNC political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Kamla says Diego resignations won’t affect UNC election campaign

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is not fazed by the res­ig­na­tion of the Diego Mar­tin North-East Con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive. She said she ex­pects more af­ter the slate of prospec­tive can­di­dates are an­nounced to­day.

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Mon Mar 24 2025
The late Marlene Mc Donald

The late Marlene Mc Donald

Legal spotlight on Gary

The for­mer head of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau, re­tired As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice To­taram Dookhie is ac­cus­ing for­mer Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith of abuse of pow­er and ex­ert­ing un­due in­flu­ence in sev­er­al high-pro­file in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­volv­ing cur­rent and for­mer gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, as well as se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers.

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Mon Mar 24 2025

Parang singer Susan Maicoo dead at 62

Parang singer Su­san Maicoo, renowned for her time­less con­tri­bu­tions to Trinidad and To­ba­go's Christ­mas mu­sic, has passed away at the age of 62. She died on Sun­day ac­cord­ing to rel­a­tives.

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Sun Mar 23 2025
Photo courtesy of the TTPS

Photo courtesy of the TTPS

Firearm and camouflage seized in Belmont

One firearm and a cam­ou­flage jack­et were found and seized by of­fi­cers in Bel­mont on Sat­ur­day.

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Sun Mar 23 2025

6 arrested, officers seize firearms, ammunition and narcotics

Of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion have ar­rest­ed six in­di­vid­u­als and seized firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, and nar­cotics fol­low­ing var­i­ous op­er­a­tions on Sat­ur­day.

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Sun Mar 23 2025

Diego Martin teen killed in possible case of mistaken identity

An 18-year-old me­chan­ic from Diego Mar­tin was shot and killed while work­ing in Point Cumana, Care­nage, on Sat­ur­day night.

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Sun Mar 23 2025

Home of murdered SRP set ablaze

Fire of­fi­cials re­port­ed re­ceiv­ing a call about a house fire on Maraj Street, Quar­ry Road, San Juan, around 4 am. When they ar­rived, they found a two-storey con­crete house ablaze. Af­ter the fire was ex­tin­guished, they learned the prop­er­ty be­longed to Bak­er.  

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Sun Mar 23 2025

Teen killed after attempting to rob man with toy gun

Around 3:25 pm, a 61-year-old man and his 10-year-old daugh­ter were de­liv­er­ing a dog to Main­gotville, Clax­ton Bay. Up­on ar­rival, the 18-year-old, who pre­tend­ed to be a cus­tomer, told them to dri­ve to Ben Win­ches­ter Street. There, he pulled out a gun, de­mand­ed the dog and oth­er valu­ables, and an­nounced a rob­bery.

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Jensen La Vende
Sun Mar 23 2025
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh speaks during the during a Joint Select Committee on Social Services and Public Administration’s inquiry into Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) yesterday.

Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh speaks during the during a Joint Select Committee on Social Services and Public Administration’s inquiry into Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) yesterday.

OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT

Deyalsingh orders immediate reinstatement of Dr Teelucksingh

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh has di­rect­ed the im­me­di­ate re­in­state­ment of Dr. Joel Teelucks­ingh, who was placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave by the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) pend­ing an in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

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Sun Mar 23 2025
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