Arima, Trinidad and Tobago News

IT was the hard work done by the PNM Women's League over the years to lift the status of women that has allowed Kamla Persad-Bissessar to become Prime Minister of TT, said Opposition Senator, Pennelope Beckles-Robinson as she gave the welcome address at the league's 57th anniversary celebration yesterday at City Hall Port-of-Spain. She accused the ... (more)

Investigators are calling on the public to assist them in identifying the head and headless body found on Saturday morning.

ON THE heels of Acting Commissioner of Police Steven Williams' revelation last week, that serious crimes including murders had dropped by 36 percent this year, killers sought to mock Williams' statistics as seven murders were committed between Friday last, and yesterday.

Former Independent Senator Dame Louise Horne has always been open-minded and outspoken.

The sextuplets' parents are ungrateful and owe the Government, the Prime Minister and the taxpayers of this country a "thank you" for all that was done to ensure that mother and babies had the best care possible, Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan said yesterday.

Emergencies at public health institutions in this country are generally prioritised by gunshot wounds, stab wounds or arriving in an unconscious state.

In an attempt to fight the scourge of vagrancy head-on, Cabinet has approved $17 million to be spent this year and next year on street dwellers.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr Mervyn Richardson, recently told the country that a state of war exists between gangs and that in this conflict, Afro-Trinis are killing Afro-Trinis. According to Richardson, 75 per cent of the victims of gang warfare are other Afro-Trinis between 21 and 30 years of age and that the main weapons of community ... (more)

Three new Presbyterian Church ministers will be ordained tomorrow at a ceremony at the Susamachar Presbyterian Church, Coffee Street, San Fernando.

Police prosecutors yesterday sought to have the bail of four people accused of more than $2 million in credit-card fraud revoked, after learning that all but one of them had been deported from several countries for similar offences.

Competition in the Men's Elimination Race which was eventually won by Spaniard Alberto Torres at the Njisane Phillip cycling festival in the Arima Velodrome, Friday night.

Hundreds of steelpan music lovers journeyed from as far as Port of Spain and Diego Martin to join the people of Siparia for Steel in Motion on Saturday evening.