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- 22 December, 2024
6 MATERNAL PATIENTS DIE AT MT. HOPE; FILE GOES MISSING
SIX patients have died at Mount Hope Women’s Hospital over the past few months – including one a few days ago – in what is
RICHARDS TIPPED TO REPLACE DEYALSINGH
BATTLE-SCARRED Terrence Deyalsingh is likely to be replaced by in-favour Dr. Maryam Abdool-Richards as the People’s National Movement’s (PNM) general election candidate for St. Joseph.
UN CONFIRMS VENE GANGS IN T&T, BUT GOVT STILL SILENT
THE United Nations has confirmed the presence of Venezuelan gangsters in Trinidad and Tobago, which CounterPunchTT recently revealed. A scorching report by the United Nations
KAMLA, GARY MUST UNITE NOW!
IF the anti-People’s National Movement (PNM) forces know how much Trinidad and Tobago depends on them, they would end their political showboating. If the leaders
MARACAIBO RESIDENTS FLEEING TO T&T
A NEW wave of residents of Maracaibo, Venezuela is fleeing to Trinidad and Tobago. So far, about 500,000 of the city’s 1.6 million residents have
MEN WHO THINK THEY CAN COOK (THE BOOKS)
A MEMBER of Parliament took home a total of $752,405.96 in 2023 for the rental of properties to government ministries.
Another MP got $225,378.48 for another property rental last year.
ROWLEY’S EMANCIPATION MAMAGUY
DESCENDANTS of former chattel slaves in Jamaica, Grenada and Guyana have received some form of reparations in recent months.
In Trinidad and Tobago, the Government of Dr. Keith Rowley did not have a Reparations Committee until late last year.
GOVT SET UP OWTU AGAIN
THE Government is playing the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) for the third time on the purchase of Petrotrin.
The Government is in an advanced stage of negotiations with a foreign-owned energy corporation to take over the Pointe-a-Pierre operations that have been mothballed since November 2018.
SUBHAS: MY BROTHER, BASDEO
SUBHAS Panday remembers the grinding poverty he, his brother Basdeo and other siblings faced.
“Bas was born in 1933, just 16 years after the end of indentureship and my parents had been ‘bound coolies’ (contracted workers),” Subhas related when we spoke this afternoon.
FIRE SERVICES CRISIS CONTINUES
The Mayaro and Penal stations are still to be outfitted, and there are shortages of appliances and other fire-fighting essentials throughout the system, according to Leo Ramkissoon, head of the Fire Service Officers Association.
