Review of drug procurement coming —Health Minister
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh says a review of the system for procurement of drugs has to be carried out to remedy the constant drug shortages at the nation’s health facilties. Speaking at the...
View ArticleFather on DUI charge fined $1,800
A father of three who told a San Fernando magistrate he did not know that drinking four beers would put him over the legal 35 microgrammes alcohol limit was fined $1,800 for driving while under the...
View ArticleNew engineers’ group focuses on development
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed between the Institute of Chemical Engineering (IChemE) and the Association of Professional Engineers of T&T (APETT) that will afford local...
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Roodal reaches out to Vasant
“There will be no Rudy 2020!”This was the assurance given to United National Congress (UNC) supporters at the Rienzi Complex, Couva, on Thursday night as Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal announced...
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Widower drops case against three doctors
Lorne Ramsoomair, a widower who brought private manslaughter charges against three doctors over the death of his wife during childbirth in 2011 has withdrawn his case. When the matter was called...
View ArticleCompany to pay three fired workers $1m
An Industrial Court ruling against Tucker Energy Services Limited will see the company paying out just over $1 million to three former employees. The ruling was handed down yesterday by Industrial...
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Arti celebrates birthday in hospital
Little orphan Arti Ramkhalawan marked her third birthday today with a cake and a visit from her maternal grandmother, Sharda Bhim, to her bedside at the San Fernando General Hospital. Arti remains...
View ArticleBaby Arti celebrates birthday
Arti Ramkhalawan celebrated her third birthday yesterday surrounded by relatives on her bed at the San Fernando Teaching Hospital.And although the child could not be treated to none of the extravagant...
View ArticleMoonilal: Stop bullying candidates, supporters
Candidate for the UNC political leadership post Dr Roodal Moonilal is calling on his opponents in the party’s internal election to stop bullying hopeful candidates and their supporters.Moonilal was...
View ArticleRambharat visits farms to decide on $831m budget
Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat is visiting farmers across the country to decide how his ministry’s $831 million budgetary allocation will be spent. The minister, who met with farmers in South...
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Sando Mayor wants more ambulances from the Ministry of Health
Following the death of a man on Harris Promenade, San Fernando yesterday, the city’s mayor intends to ask the health minister for an ambulance service for the community. Mayor Kazim Hosein said this...
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Widow: Police failed to help my ailing husband
The grieving widow of the man who died on the streets outside the San Fernando General Hospital waiting on an ambulance said yesterday police officers refused to assist her husband as she begged them...
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Accident victim dies eight months later
After nursing her son back from the doorway of death, Princes Town mother Mohenee Rampersad was left heart-broken on Wednesday night when she learned of his death as she sat sewing a pillow case for...
View ArticleBargain hunters left unhappy
Despite the lure of drastically reduced prices, yesterday’s local Black Friday sales failed to draw huge crowds as was the case last year.Some customers polled complained that advertised sale prices...
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Freeport man waits in vain for ambulance
The family of a Freeport man, who was left lying on the ground for over four hours waiting for an ambulance after being knocked of a feed tank, are calling on the Ministry of Health to add more...
View ArticleWife abuser gets 16 months in jail
A Tarouba man was sent to jail yesterday for 16 months yesterday for maliciously wounding his common-law wife with a cutlass during an argument.Kadir Drickpaul, 30, of Bocus Drive, Thompson Road,...
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Worker crushed by tonne of steel
The family of a Cunupia man who died in a work-related accident yesterday is calling on witnesses to come forward and say how he really died.Ryan Maharaj, 31, of Pina Circular, Dyette Estate, Cunupia,...
View ArticleFour people arrested for drug possession
Four people, including one woman were arrested this morning as Southern Division Police carried out an anti-crime exercise. Two of the men and the woman were held when police raided a building on...
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MSJ head: Rambarran playing ‘populist’
Leader of the Movement for Social Justice David Abdulah is calling for Governor of the Central Bank Jwala Rambarran to go. Abdulah made the call at a press conference at the party’s St Joseph Village,...
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Brothers slam into pickup on M2 Ring Rd
Hansraj Roopnarine, 47, of Endeavour, Chaguanas, died on the spot yesterday when the Mitsubishi Lancer, driven by his brother, Roland Roopnarine, slammed into a pickup truck on the M2 Ring Road in...
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