Government MPs Dr Tim Gopeesingh and Dr Fuad Khan showed their keen medical instincts were still intact as they gallantly rushed to the aid of a Parliamentary employee who was heard bawling in pain from the bathroom during a Senate hearing. The staff member apparently had an allergic reaction to …

Rayad Emrit will lead out the Trinidad and Tobago cricket team for the first time on Friday against defending champions, Jamaica, and without the benefit of more than half the team. Denesh Ramdin, Darren and Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Adrian Barath, Lendl Simmons, Sunil Narine, Ravi Rampaul and Daren Ganga …

PoS Mayor Louis Lee Sing faces a move to oust him from his post after his complaint about the Opposition Leader’s perceived “undemocratic approach” to governance was leaked to the government. Wired868 is unsure which is more ironic; the PNM proving Lee Sing right by lynching him or the Mayor …

Fixin’ T&T yesterday condemned Crime Watch for gross insensitivity following the broadcast of 33-year-old former West Indies cricketer Runako Morton’s final moments before he succumbed to injuries from a car crash on Sunday night. Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne wasn’t the only CCN employee with questionable judgment; Dominic Kalipersad, the …

One of three policemen who “emotionally raped” a naked rape victim by turning her away from the Morvant Police Station when she tried to make a report was fined $520 for neglect of duty. PCA chairman Gillian Lucky hopes the fine—less than half the admission price for Brian Lara’s all-inclusive …

THA chairman Orville London and Culture Minister and Mayaro MP Winston “Gypsy” Peters remain at loggerheads over the latter’s insistence that Tobago should hold a second Carnival later in the year. London asked if Carnival was viewed as such as magic pill for the country’s economic woes, then why didn’t …

OWTU president-general Ancel Roget threatened withdrawal from the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) unless the MSJ left the “damn stupidness called the People’s Partnership.” The PNM’s effort to capitalise on the rift was breezily dismissed by Roget who told Dr Keith Rowley to save his help for himself. It arguably …

Gary Griffth, the PM’s National Security Advisor, said he did not threaten Opposition MP Donna Cox during Friday’s no confidence motion debate or sprint up a flight of stairs to continue abusing her. Griffith countered that Cox cursed him as she went into an elevator on Level Two; the former …

Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs, in a three-page release, disputed the Prime Minister and the Solicitor General’s assertion that he “procured” a light aircraft and also denied concerns raised by two PNM MP’s regarding his educational credentials and the cost of new police uniforms. Last week, Gibbs infuriated the Police Service …

Amery Browne delivers some short pitched ones as he accuses government of shielding drug dealers and makes reference of a Minister who defies a High Court order and carries on his business as usual. Browne isn’t one for the dramatics but, in his own way, he is starting to dish …

Opposition Leader alleged that Works Minister Jack Warner lost his Transport portfolio after questioning a conflict of interest involving CAL Chairman George Nicholas. Wired868 believes it is the first time that Warner was on the right side of a conflict of interest charge. Keith Rowley called Nicholas’ stewardship the second …

Housing Minister Roodal Moonilal claimed that ex-Prime Minister Patrick Manning called the 2010 snap general elections after learning that six PNM MPs—supposedly led by the Opposition Leader—planned to vote against him on the then Opposition’s no confidence motion. Manning supposedly got wind of a clandestine meeting in Barbados between disgruntled …