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Cancer challenge
Posted: Saturday, December 6, 2025
Cancer challenge
THERE'S no type of cancer more deadly or prevalent among men in this country than prostate cancer. Yet, awareness is not as high as it should be. That might change after this month's brave disclosures by football icon Shaka Hislop, 56, and fashion stalwart Christopher Nathan, 63.
Blue Christmas for teachers, city workers: Only back pay for PSA
"As far as I'm aware, based on conversations with the CPO (Chief Personnel Officer Dr Daryl Dindial), no arrangements were made for back pay for any unions but the Public Services Association (PSA) for the December period," Tancoo told reporters as he was making his way into the Red House on December 5, for the sitting of the House of Representatives.
Beckles knocks Finance Bill, passed by simple majority
Scotland, Ameen wrangle as Tobago electoral boundaries shift
Port of Spain South MP Keith Scotland has chastised the government for waiting until "the 11th hour" to lay before Parliament the Draft EBC Local Boundaries and Tobago Order 2025, to adjust the boundaries of two electoral districts in Tobago and change their names.
EBC Report On Proposed Electoral Changes Brought To Parliament
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development reveals its received a report from the Elections and Boundaries Commission on August29th this year which proposed changes be made to some electoral districts ahead of the next local government election and the Tobago House of Assembly Elections.
Boundary shifts in Tobago
EBC makes changes in two districts ahead of Jan 12 elections
Owners hit with 400% rise in gaming tax, warn: Bars face closure
The Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Bars and Restaurants and the Barkeepers Owners and Operators Association of Trinidad and Tobago claim the government's proposal to increase the Amusement Gaming Tax from $6,000 to $25,000 per machine per year will affect small and medium-sized bar enterprises and lead to widespread closures and job losses.
Owners: Bars singled out
...protest 'punitive' gaming tax hikes
Discussion on lowering T&T's food import bill at JSC
Discussions are ongoing between the local poultry association and the Ministry of Agriculture in bid to improve the hatchling stock to such a level where there is less imports into Trinidad and Tobago in terms of this area.
PM hands over 10 repaired vehicles to TTPS
Prime Minister Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar attended a vehicle handover ceremony alongside Deputy Commissioner of Police Junior Benjamin and members of the TTPS on December 5.
Barry Padarath says Dr. Browne's statements on the PM are irresponsible and reckless
The recent remarks by People's National Movement (PNM) Senator Dr. Amery Browne, calling on the Prime Minister to "cool it" and "moderate" her language, represent not only a profound mischaracterization of the Prime Minister's statements but a startling display of selective outrage steeped in the very political contamination the PNM has long injected into national discourse.
This is according to Public Utilities Minister Barry Padarath.
Beckles hits back: PM's 'drug mafia' charge a distraction
Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles has dismissed Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar's repeated claims the People's National Movement (PNM) is being financed by a "local drug mafia" and is fuelling an anti-United States narrative, calling the allegations "ridiculous" and "unfounded."
Scarborough man in court for American's murder
A Rockley Vale, Scarborough man has appeared in court charged with the murder of American tourist Christopher Brown, 43, a builder of Silverthorne, Colorado.
Senate mourns Simonette, Phillips
THE Senate mourned the deaths of former PNM senator Garvin Simonette and former UNC senator Dr Daphne Phillips when it sat on December 5. Simonette and Phillips died earlier this month.
Police investigate foreign exchange scam in St James
A business owner was swindled out of $28,000 after receiving counterfeit US currency during what appeared to be a routine transaction.
A 25-year-old-man is shot to death and 50-year-old woman is injured in shooting
According to police reports, at around 7:30 p.m. Shakeem Breedy and the woman were seated on the front gallery of Best's home at #69 Chinese Drive when two men, dressed in all black, emerged from a black Nissan Tiida and opened fire.
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