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TTPS records 30% reduction in serious crimes
Posted: Friday, January 1, 2021
TTPS records 30% reduction in serious crimes compared to 2019
In his end of year message, Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith noted that this is the highest percent reduction in crime from one year to another in over 30 years.
TTPS warns motorists: Be ready for DUI, road exercises
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is advising motorists that there will be an increase in road policing activities across the nation in the coming days.
Activists: Too much 'smartmanism' in prison programmes
Describing some large corporations as "superpredators" who benefited from the slow pace of trials, Muwakil pleaded with the government and the Chief Justice to do all that was necessary to hasten the pace of trials, warning that prisons were breeding grounds for criminals.
1 death, 18 new covid19 cases on last day of the year
The update also said two of the 18 new cases are from Tobago. The total number of positive cases is 7,150, of whom 6,650 patients have recovered.
President knocks politicians in New Year message: SECRETS AND LIES
PRESIDENT Paula-Mae Weekes has said the public is tired of politicians' "hackneyed excuses, promises of action and sob stories of doing one's best...with nothing to show for it."
President: Public officials must stop being so secretive, paranoid, dismissive
The following is the New Year's message of President Paula-Mae Weekes:
PM: 2021 springs eternal hope for us
Kamla tells gov't fix 'broken' exemption process in New Year's message
UWI deploys scientific team to investigate La Soufriere volcano
A three-person team from The UWI Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC) arrived in St Vincent on Thursday to provide scientific support for the ongoing eruption at La Soufriere volcano.
Sea conditions change sailing time of T&T Spirit
In a statement on Thursday, the TTIT said for improved comfort, the vessels will operate at reduced speed resulting in an estimated time of 3hrs 30mins for the crossing.
Gritty reality of online school
Over the centuries that schooling has become entrenched as an institution, some presumptions have come to be understood as facts. Teachers teach, parents parent and students learn. All that collapsed during covid19 and created an experience that redrew those boundaries.
Three-month extension for expired driving permits, taxi licences
Carnival stakeholders: NCC should stage virtual events
In an interview with Newsday on December 30, NCC chairman Winston "Gypsy" Peters said the commission is not going to host virtual events. Instead it is compiling at least 100 years of existing Carnival material.
Bunji: Remember those who lost Carnival jobs
"First thing they will say is that's nothing man if they have no Carnival man, the artistes done rich already. But no, those artistes are not rich already. This is a constant struggle, all those artistes, all those panmen, all them small Mas makers who trying to develop their skill, the people who vending all these people trying to get, this is the one time they have to take advantage to secure their whole year and it's amazing we have a product that could secure yuh year if it go through."
World-renowned India-born TT professor dies
He wrote and produced books, songs, poems, and dramas, and was awarded the National Humming Bird (Gold) Medal in 2001 for dedicated service to TT.
Police warn about elder abuse as granny taken to safe house
92-year-old woman removed from trash-filled house, hospitalised
A desperate plea from a neighbour on social media led to the rescue of a 92-year-old woman from her trash-filled home in Tunapuna on Wednesday morning.
Man linked to gun trade gunned down in Valsayn
Police said he was heavily involved in the drug trade and specialized in the trading of the assault rifle, the AK47.
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