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2 cops held for $.25m roadblock robbery
Posted: Saturday, October 10, 2020
2 cops held for $.25m roadblock robbery
Two police officers in uniform and using a marked police vehicle allegedly pulled off the daring robbery of over a quarter-million dollars from a courier after setting up a fake roadblock earlier this month.
Health, Housing Ministers happy with budget allocations
Health received the second highest allocation in the budget at $6.05 billion after education and training with $7.973 billion. This was $34 million less than the allocation for fiscal 2020, though at that point health was third after education and national security.
Kamla: TTPS looking at shut down
She reported an overall reduction for the police in goods and services from $515,847,200 in fiscal 2020 to $334,689,921 in fiscal 2021, a reduction of $181,157,278.
Kamla: Did Imbert create new tax break for himself?
She recalled in 2016 the minister amended the Income Tax Act to allow for income tax exemptions for multi-family dwelling properties.
US$9.7m set aside for vaccine
Deyalsingh said TT has signed up to the Covax protocols (a mechanism designed to guarantee rapid, fair and equitable access to covid19 vaccines worldwide). Through Covax, Deyalsingh said, "In the first instance we will get 280,000 vaccines. That will go initially to healthcare workers, the elderly, the immuno-compromised."
Speaker warns Khadijah Ameen over Facebook posts during budget debate
Gopee-Scoon challenges women to monetise their skills
Trade and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon has called on women to "develop a posture of confidence and pursue opportunities to monetise what they do best to secure their presence in the international trading place."
NP workers: We want answers on gas-station sale
"Over the last couple of years, there was a major drive to upgrade stations, to build new stations and to improve the infrastructure in place. Now we are hearing government changing their tune, that they are going to sell an asset that has spent millions of taxpayers' dollars to upgrade (including CNG) to pass it over to the private sector for them to benefit. I only see one benefiting: the private sector."
Mourners brave inclement weather to say:
Farewell to Sprangalang
Sprangalang, now revered, was once shunned – colleagues
THE inmeasurable talent of the late Dennis "Sprangalang" Hall is now being revered and lauded, but his long-standing friend Errol Fabien recalled how he was shunned and at one time referred to as a "gorilla."
'Purublaka' at Red House
In honour of First Peoples Day of Recognition and Heritage, members of the first peoples community led by chief Ricardo Bharath Hernandez performed a purublaka or ancestral memorial ceremony where incense and leaves are burnt was by held at the Red House on Friday.
CAL launches special flights to New York, Toronto, Barbados
Chatham farmer victim of $40,000 sabotaged
A Chatham farmer is calling for help after saboteurs sprayed down over $40,000 worth of crops in a bid to force him off the land.
Drowned man's mother: I dreamt his death
Durham died on Tuesday after he slipped and fell into a river at Dillon Street, Diego Martin, while searching for his pet parrot, which had escaped on Monday.
Sister rewrites SEA with twin, refuses to leave her behind
WHAT happens when twin sisters write the SEA together but one passes and the other doesn't?
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