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Repairs to ruptured water main
Posted: Thursday, October 20, 2022
WASA: Repairs to ruptured water main to end within 36 hours
The pipe-borne water supply was cut to thousands of customers living in a widespread area, including Gulf View, Bel Air, Green Acres, La Romain, Woodland, San Francique, Avocat, South Oropouche, Union Hall, Duncan Village, Palmiste, Sunkist, Esperance, Debe, parts of Penal, Siparia, Quarry Village, Cocoyea, Pleasantville, Vistabella, Marabella and San Fernando.
Retirement at 65: Who does the proposed change benefit?
Many corporate and government bodies have lauded the move, highlighting the benefits of giving people purpose in a time where people are living longer, healthier lives and to maintain a shrinking labour pool. But at the ground level, working people don't want to retire at 65; they prefer to retire earlier at 60.
Digitising Trinidad and Tobago: what's holding us back?
Woman, 2 sons held in teen's murder
In a brief telephone interview on Wednesday, Dookran's mother Devika said she was aware of the arrests but she did not know the suspects.
11 days after teen killed, stuffed in outhouse: Mom, sons held for murder
The men were arrested shortly after they secured bail at the Golden Grove Remand Facility in Arouca for the possession of ammunition charges which arose out of an unrelated incident. They were arrested and charged for the ammunition by officers of the Southern Division CID and are expected to be questioned by members of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region III.
Cox: We're trying to wean people off state assistance
Some of the measures she listed were: setting up a social services and empowerment unit to help social welfare recipients live more independently; implementing a national register of vulnerable people to help government identify the poor and vulnerable; and continuing the National Social Mitigation Plan, which seeks to expand food security and grow small enterprises.
This now begs the question: does the decision to increase the age of retirement from 60 to 65 benefit the economy, or the people?
NACTA: Affected party won't like unfavourable poll
NACTA pollster Dr Vishnu Bisram on Wednesday fended off criticism of his organisation and its methodologies levelled by UNC officials, by saying in a statement to Newsday: no one likes polls which are unfavourable to them.
TTUTA president voted out
New TTUTA president
'Debe Death Roundabout' gets another safety measure
Rumble strips, safety barrels, crash barriers and fresh paint markings have been installed at the Gandhi Village Roundabout, popularly called the 'Debe Death Roundabout', following a series of fatal accidents over the past few years.
Restart of Certificate of Character service
Women detained in Montrose raid to be questioned
Ten Latin women who were detained in a raid at a suspected Montrose brothel were expected to be interviewed by the Counter Trafficking Unit (CTU) on Wednesday.
Body parts in bags identified
The dismembered bodies of two men which were found in Cunupia on Monday have been identified. The remains are those of Makell Simon, 31, of Soldado Road, Lange Park, Chaguanas, and Josiah Charles, 27, of Circular Trace, Enterprise.
Relatives of slain Laventille man: He was killed doing honest job
Agard, 28, was shot dead at his workplace, Guy's Central Tyre Shop, at the corner of Laventille Road and Piccadilly Street, on Monday afternoon.
Investigators said he was standing near the entrance when he was approached by a man wearing a bandana over his face who shot him several times before running away. Agard was declared dead at the scene.
Cop cleared of fatal shooting after inquest
According to the evidence presented in the case, Homer and a female colleague were driving in a police vehicle along Duke Street in Port-of-Spain on April 15, 2015, when they saw a man, later identified as Reid, walking behind a woman with a firearm in his hand.
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