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Billion dollar Sinaloa Cartel cocaine
Posted: Saturday, March 15, 2025
T&T lawmen stop quarter billion dollar Sinaloa Cartel cocaine shipment
A cargo vessel that originated in Guyana and was headed to French/Dutch island of St Martin, was searched in the waters off Trinidad on Wednesday.
$250m in cocaine seized in vessel bound for St Martin
The TT Police Service has arrested five people and seized over 180 kilogrammes of cocaine, valued at over $250 million, from a shipping vessel bound for St Martin on March 14.
UK visa-imposition on T&T to be reviewed during the year
The purpose of the meeting was to present the position of Trinidad and Tobago on the decision of the United Kingdom to impose a visa requirement for nationals of Trinidad and Tobago seeking to travel to the United Kingdom, and to outline a way forward.
Browne meets UK High Commissioner, complains about new visa rule
Rowley on energy: Trinidad and Tobago's eggs not all in one basket
Rowley anticipates no further extension of SoE
In an interview with journalists last evening, Rowley, who will resign on March 16, said the government and law enforcement have done enough with the enhanced powers given under the state of emergency, which started on December 30 and was extended for three months.
I pretended to be Kamla's husband
Rowley recalls moving gesture of then-PM at Mandela's funeral:
But that trip also had another significance. Rowley said as they travelled in the same car to view the body and were waiting in the holding room, Persad-Bissessar raised with him the issue of the "unsatisfactory" pension arrangements in the Parliament (for legislators) and for the judges.
He said that at the time, the plight of former chief justice Clinton Bernard, who was having difficulties managing his personal affairs, was in the news.
He said he told Persad-Bissessar to bring the bill to support the enhancement of the pension arrangements of the pensions and he would support it. "And she said 'okay', and our conversation moved on from that," he said.
However, Persad-Bissessar reneged on that agreement, Rowley said in an interview with the media, titled From Mason Hall to Whitehall: The Closing Chapter, which was broadcast on the three television stations on Thursday night.
Young has chance to make big cabinet changes as PM
But Young's appointment, which was public knowledge since January, may not be the only change that happens on that day. One provision of the Constitution suggests cabinet ministers relinquish their posts when a prime minister is either appointed or re-appointed.
As Young set to pick his 'new' Cabinet
Armour stepping down as AG
Kamla: Rowley selling out Trinidad and Tobago, betraying PNM supporters
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is demanding that the PM release the legal opinion which he says supports the appointment of Energy and Energy Industries Minister Stuart Young as PM.
Consumer Affairs Division's new website to enhance consumer education
The Consumer Affairs Division (CAD) of the Ministry of Trade and Industry has launched a newly designed website ahead of World Consumer Rights Day aimed at providing consumers with easier access to information, complaint resolution, and real-time engagement with Consumer Advocates.
Nicole reveals cancer she has been battling has spread to her brain
Phagwa is colour, vibes and unity
Retired teacher found dead at Malabar home
RESIDENTS of Pamphille Avenue in Malabar are more angry than frightened after the discovery of their elderly neighbour Judith Harris, found dead in her bedroom on March 12. Her decomposing body was found with a chair filled with clothes over her head and another over her legs.
SEARCH FOR GRANNY'S BODY
Police, hunters comb village after woman beheaded...
Severed head identified: A grandma from Siparia
It is believed to be Joanne Estick, 59, a mother of one and grandmother of three. She lived at an apartment in Ritoville in Siparia.
Relatives horrified by murder of Siparia woman, 60
The niece said, "Joanne was always prowling in the wee hours of the morning as if she owned the road. In a time like this, with all that is happening in TT, you cannot do that. I cannot say if anyone ever threatened to kill her for any reason."
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