More than half of WASA’s 4,800 staff faces the possibility of retrenchment after Public Utilities Minister Emmanuel “Hurricane” George admitted that workforce reduction is expected in restructuring. Or, as far as Trinidad Express is concerned, blah, blah, blah—seventy five percent of the Express website today was dedicated to TV6 Crime …

TTSPCA president Sita Kuruvilla said the Dangerous Dog Act, which will be proclaimed on 1 August 2012, is flawed and discriminates against pitbulls but fails to address the reckless ownership, which created the problem in the first place. Pitbulls, the Fila Brasileiro and the Japanese Tosa will soon be endangered …

Local fashion icon Claudia Pegus was held up by a knife-toting bandit on Sunday night outside her Fort George, St James home and robbed of $2,000 in cash as well as mobile phones, iPads and a laptop. The bandit then asked for a lift to Mooneram Street, St James, which …

The 6th OAS Summit in Colombia is best known for US President Barack Obama’s secret service men’s nocturnal activities with prostitutes. It is arguable whether Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar lifted the gravity of the occasion yesterday with her own speech on organised crime in the Americas. The …

The policeman alleged to have pawned a stolen gold chain has been transferred with immediate effect from Valencia to the Mayaro Police Station. Wired868 cannot confirm that the Police Service got the idea from the Vatican or that Mayaro is now considered Trinidad and Tobago’s answer to Siberia. The Anti-Corruption …

A release from the Attorney General’s office revealed that the Dangerous Dog Act is finally set to be proclaimed on 1 August 2012 after being declared by the Parliament, 12 years ago. To put the passage of time into context: Basdeo Panday and ANR Robinson were Prime Minister and President …

The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service has begun work on a sexual offenders’ database but it will not be made available to members of the public. Deputy Police Commissioner Mervyn Richardson reportedly sought to justify the register’s secrecy by asking the Trinidad Guardian reporter: “How would you like it if …

… Parliament urged to pass broadcast code Fixin’ TT, a civic watch group, has again pleaded with the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago to take action due to the failure of TV6 to filter out the perceived irresponsible and insensitive broadcasts of its Crime Watch programme, which is hosted …

Adam’s Construction San Juan Jabloteh coach Earl Carter leaned against his bench on Friday night and waited to be put out of his misery at Port of Spain’s Hasely Crawford Stadium. The Movie Towne cinema was barely 400 metres south of the Jabloteh goalpost. But there was to be no …

Public servants remain uneasy about the chain of events that led to Ministry of Gender, Youth and Child Development employee, Cheryl Miller, to be locked away for 15 days in the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital on the say-so of a superior. Jennifer Frederick-Taylor urged Minister Verna St Rose Greaves to …

Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP) chairman George Stanley Beard suggested politicians on the sister isle are held to loftier ethical standards when he insisted that Tobago Development Minister Vernella Alleyne-Toppin “must be made to account” for her loose use of a State-issued credit card. The TOP has already issued …

I’m extremely disappointed that, for the second occasion, a letter that we spent a lot of thought and time on seems to have been ignored by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Twelve other 2006 World Cup players and myself—who are involved in this litigation against the Trinidad and …