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Deputy Commissioner of Police Maurice Piggott has called for a public apology from Police Service Social and Welfare Association president Anand Ramesar. Piggott is now on pre-retirement leave.

A Charlieville labourer, who was fined $5,000 in July last year for failing to submit himself for breathalyser testing, has been jailed for 12 months for a similar offence. Imtiaz Karim was yesterday jailed by Magistrate Gillian David-Scotland, presiding in the Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court.

The controversy surrounding Daniel Guerra’s murder took a new twist yesterday after Deputy Chief Magistrate Mark Wellington was asked to consider recusing himself from the preliminary inquiry into the child’s murder.  This comes one day after Wellington suggested that attorney Kevin Rattiram...

Foreign Affairs Minister Suruj Rambachan has broken his silence on allegations of Government interference on the state-owned Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG).

Relatives of Michelle Chan-Ragoonath say they are awaiting the completion of an investigation by the Ministry of Health into the circumstances leading to her now having to fight for her life in the Intensive Care Unit of the Eric Williams’ Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope.

Former prime minister Patrick Manning is warning of the possibility of social unrest in T&T if differences among the population are not managed properly. He said, too, all the race talk in the country would not assist in any way.

Arts and Multiculturalism Minister, Winston “Gypsy” Peters, has described this year’s International bmobile Soca Monarch Competition as one of biggest and most successful shows the Caribbean region has ever seen.

Members of the T&T Coast Guard have heightened their search for two men who went missing after diving for lobsters at Crown Point, Tobago. The men, identified as Learmond Chapmaund and Delano Benjamin, have been reported missing since Tuesday.