Trinidad and Tobago News

Trinidad and Tobago's Sambo team returned a happy bunch after finishing second at the Pan American Sambo Championships in Panama.

"Somebody shoulda make a jail, as we say in local parlance," Deyalsingh said during his contribution to the Insurance Bill 2013 in the Senate.

The Trinidad & Tobago Canine Advocates has commended the Government for seeking to implement legislation to control dogs and minimise injury caused by the animal.

The signing ceremony yesterday followed the work of the Tobago Division of the Chamber of Commerce over the past five years toward the implementation of the Debt Restructuring and Economic Stimulus Plan which was approved by Government in 2012 and launched in October 2012.

A SOLDIER from the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment is the subject of an internal investigation into an Housing Development Corporation racket in which he promised his colleagues and members of the public homes in exchange for cash.

DOCTORS are predicting that Bissoondaye Geeta Seenath will take at least a month to recover from injuries sustained during her seven-day ordeal in the Toco forest.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Guy Ryder, director-general of the International Labour Organization , will attend the eighth ILO meeting of Caribbean labour ministers to be held from 2-3 July 2013, in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

The Republic Bank of Trinidad and Tobago has displaced the Social Security and National Insurance Trust as the largest institutional shareholder in HFC Bank, raising fears of a possible takeover and subsequent rebranding of one of the country's most established indigenous banks.

We are destined to fail at our tourism efforts because the stakeholders, decision makers and governmental associations have no understanding of the new media landscape.

Many key sectors of the Canadian economy have job openings, but no people to fill them.

PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has written President Anthony Carmona calling the President to take such action as he sees fit in relation to the disclosure last week of a secret meeting between chairman of the Integrity Commission Ken Gordon and Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley at Gordon's private home.

The study and appreciation of Language Arts was given new life when Naparima College recently hosted its first annual Language Arts Department Showcase at the school gymnasium on Paradise Hill, San Fernando.

The state of the Jamaican economy and the increasing hostility to trade with Trinidad and Tobago by Jamaican manufacturers are matters that should concern all of the other 13 member countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market .

A war is brewing between president of the Pharmacy Board of T&T Andrew Rahaman and one of its council members Ameena Ali over the delay in granting of licences to 20 pharmacies.

Of the 19 honorary graduands chosen by the University of the West Indies, six will receive doctorates honoris causa in recognition of a lifetime of commitment to works that qualify as scholarly and valuable to the Caribbean region.

The late "Father of the Nation" Dr Eric Williams would be beaming with pride and joy today were he alive, as Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica came together at the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain on Saturday night, if only to celebrate the islands' culinary expertise at the inaugural Table Talk Food Awards.

This was said by a member of the Single Fathers Association of Trinidad and Tobago , in an interview with Newsday on Saturday.

On Tuesday of last week, Bourse Securities Limited listed the newest addition to its family of mutual funds on the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange - the Bourse Brazil Latin Fund .

A Mother is worried about the fate of her son, apparently in detention. She's Guyanese, reportedly living in Trinidad and Tobago for 18 years.

The People's National Movement is calling on Attorney General Anand Ramlogan to demit office while an investigation is underway against him, instead of waging a public relations battle against his accuser, Dr Keith Rowley and the Integrity Commission.