Category: News

The news items published under this category are as follows.

News: Kidnappers run amok

Monday, January 12, 2004 - 06:06 PM
Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad Guardian NewsA man stormed the home of a Rousillac family that sells doubles early yesterday and stabbed and chopped three women before kidnapping another said to be a deaf mute...

News: Panorama shake up - Reduction in playing time for steelbands

Monday, January 12, 2004 - 06:04 PM
Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad Express NewsIn an attempt to stem decreasing attendance at the annual steelband Panorama competition a number of radical adjustments have been made to the preliminary round of which gets under way January 29...

News: Secrets of Dole Chadee

Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 07:24 AM
Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad Express NewsSuspected, but never proven, to be one of this country's biggest narco-traffickers, the two- decade reign of Dole Chadee (Nankissoon Boodram) in his
self-made "kingdom" in Piparo, ended with his arrest in 1994 for the murders of four members of a Williamsville family and his hanging in 1999, along with his gang of eight...

News: 'No bribe': Jamaica tycoon denies paying off PNM minister for FCB deal

Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 07:12 AM
Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad Express NewsBUSINESS tycoon Michael Lee Chin has described as "preposterous, unfounded, reckless and irresponsible" the suggestions by former finance minister Gerald Yetming that he made a payment to a Government minister to secure 20 per cent of First Citizens Bank (FCB). ..

News: Montano: NFM leading rice cartel

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 06:27 PM
Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad Express NewsCONSUMER AFFAIRS Minister Danny Montano is advising consumers to eat cassava and Guyana rice as alternatives to NFM rice, the price of which is to be increased by 15 per cent.

News: Yetming: Plot to give AIC big bite in FCB

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 06:25 PM
Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad Guardian NewsTempers flared in Parliament yesterday, when Opposition MP Gerald Yetming accused Government of conspiring with Jamaican billionaire Michael Lee Chin, chairman and majority owner of the AIC group, to control 20 per cent of First Citizens Bank...

News: PM seeks $1m debt write-off

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 06:19 PM
Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad Guardian NewsPrime Minister Patrick Manning is seeking a write-off of an estimated $1 million in personal debt owed for legal action he undertook in 1997...

News: No quick fix for national crisis at schools

Thursday, January 08, 2004 - 06:09 AM
Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad Newsday NewsAcknowledging that "we are in a national crisis" with regard to what is happening in the education sector today, head of the School Intervention Strategies (SIS) Unit Dr Michael Alleyne yesterday sought to reassure persons that the Ministry of Education's programmes have already started to help reduce the violence and acts of indiscipline occurring within the school system...

News: Murder/suicide stuns Freeport...Taxi-driver thought cops were after him

Thursday, January 08, 2004 - 06:03 AM
Trinidad and Tobago

RASHEED HOSEIN, the 42-year-old Freeport taxi-driver who shot his wife Sadia Sooknanan, 41, to death, and then turned the gun on himself on Monday afternoon, believed that the Freeport police were looking for him...

News: Eight murders in 7 days...URP foreman gunned down

Thursday, January 08, 2004 - 05:56 AM
Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad Guardian NewsA man described by police as a ?seasoned criminal? but hailed by some as a local ?Robin Hood,? was gunned down in Laventille yesterday...

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