STARTLING NUMBERS ARE MADE PUBLIC REGARDING OVERTIME PAYMENTS, WITHIN THE POLICE SERVICE. THE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POLICE SERVICE IS SAID TO HAVE PAID OUT ALMOST, $794 MILLION IN OVERTIME CLAIMS OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS AND EIGHT MONTHS. THE FIGURES … Continue reading →

THE AMENDMENTS INCLUDE A NEW RESTRICTION FOR GAMBLING. JUST AFTER ELEVEN O’CLOCK LAST EVENING, THE MEMBERS VOTED ON A DIVISION. THE OUTCOME WAS EXPECTED. EARLIER, ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN JEREMIE SC MADE HIS POSITION CLEAR, DURING HIS PRESENTATION OF THE BILL. … Continue reading →

CARNIVAL STAKEHOLDERS ARE CRITICIZINGANOTHER DELAY IN THE PAYMENT OF OUTSTANDING PRIZE MONIES, WITH PAN TRINBAGO AND THE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO CARNIVAL BANDS ASSOCIATION CALLING ON, CULTURE MINISTER MICHELLE BENJAMIN, TO HONOUR HER COMMITMENT. THE MINISTRY HAD ANNOUNCED THAT OUTSTANDING PAYMENTS … Continue reading →

PRIME MINISTER KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR IS NOT AT ALL MOVED BY THE THREATS OF, THE PEOPLES NATIONAL MOVEMENT MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. THEY SAID, OVER THE WEEKEND THEY INTEND TO MOBILISE PROTEST, OVER THE GOVERNMENT’S PROPOSED SPECIAL OPERATIONS LEGISLATION. MRS. PERSAD BISSESSAR … Continue reading →

WITHIN HOURS THE CONTROVERSIAL STATE OF EMERGENCY WILL COME TO AN END, AND GOVERNMENT IS ASSURING THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME WILL REMAIN VIGILANT. YESTERDAY, PRIME MINISTER KAMLA PERSAD BISESSAR SAID, THE ZONES OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS BILL HAS BEEN TABLED IN … Continue reading →

TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR POINT FIVE MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF COCAINE, SEIZED BY THE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO COAST GUARD OFF THE NORTH WESTERN COAST. THE MASSIVE COCAINE SHIPMENT WEIGHED IN AT, 440 KILOGRAMMES. FOUR MEN, INCLDUING THREE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO … Continue reading →

Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar is cautiously optimistic about future relations between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela She says, recent talks with Venezuela have been positive. Yesterday, outside the hall of justice, where she attended the opening of the new law … Continue reading →