PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – While Chikungunya and Zika which swept the region in 2014 and 2016 are not expected back anytime soon, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is warning residents to “gear-up for the possibility of a major outbreak of dengue fever in 2018.” It says that’s because the pre-conditions of abundant mosquito […]
It is another win for Brother and its author, David Chariandy. Over the weekend The West Coast Book Prize Society presented Charlandy with the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for writing the best work of fiction in British Colombia. The author, formerly of Scarborough, is now living and working in Vancouver. In Brother, Chariandy tells […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A complaint made by Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley about a locally-based United Nations (UN) official’s “misinformed” comments following the repatriation of 82 Venezuelans last month, has got the attention of the UN’s Secretary General António Guterres. Acting Attorney General Stuart Young says Guterres plans […]
The Trinidad and Tobago lawyers football team left Trinidad on Thursday to participate in the 19th Mundiavocat World Football Cup for Lawyers. The competition is an international football tournament open to lawyers worldwide and is held every two years. This years’ event will be held in Spain from May 4-12. This is the second time […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – David Michael Rudder, hailed as modern calypso’s most innovative songwriter, received the Key to the City of Port of Spain, during a ceremony at City Hall on Tuesday conducted by Mayor Joel Martinez. Rudder who was born in Port of Spain, lives in Toronto. In bestowing the honour, Mayor Martinez […]
COUVA, Trinidad -Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Princesses pulled off a hard-fought 3-1 victory over Guyana in the final game of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Women’s Challenge Series at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva on Sunday night. Trinidad and Tobago was adjudged winner of the tournament after the Soca Princess won their other matches […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A High Court judge here has stopped the deportation of a Nigerian national who is married to a Trinidadian. Justice Jacqueline Wilson made the order on Saturday night, hours before 37-year-old Onekachi Eke Aka Emmanuel was due to be deported along with a group of immigrants from West Africa. During […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — The Trinidad and Tobago government, in responding to claims that Venezuelan asylum seekers were forcibly repatriated to their homeland, says no Venezuelans were compelled or coerced into leaving the country last Saturday. The Ministry of National Security of the twin island republic, in a statement issued after the United Nations […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A High Court judge in Trinidad and Tobago ruled last week that the part of the twin-island republic’s Sexual Offences Act which criminalizes sexual activity between homosexual men – whether consensual or not – is unconstitutional. And while the local – and regional – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — The number of Venezuelan nationals seeking asylum or detained at the main immigration center here has increased significantly, a joint select committee of the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament has been told. Acting Chief Immigration Officer, Charmaine Gandhi-Andrews, told the committee on Friday that an estimated 2,000 Venezuelans have applied for […]
