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  • Aug, Sun, 2024
Tourism and riots

It was rather surprising to hear my young taxi driver on the way from Piarco explain that we are now in summer, so the roads are emptier. It is unclear…

  • Aug, Sun, 2024
This one goes out to the one I love

Love is somewhere. It may well be in lots of places, but there are two places I have not found it: in the air and everywhere. The poets, philosophers, priests…

  • Aug, Sun, 2024
Angry voices of the people

While the guessing game for the next general elections goes on, the PNM is busy taking nominations while the Opposition UNC, having done that already, is fast-tracking a set of…

  • Aug, Sun, 2024
Man killed by fuel truck in Marabella

A 69-year-old man was killed by a fuel delivery truck while attempting to cross the road in Marabella yesterday morning. Kent Mitchell, also known as Yankee, died at the scene.…

  • Aug, Sun, 2024
ARising murders put strain on State, pathologists

Senior Reporter shane.superville@guardian.co.tt It costs the State about $15,000 to do an autopsy. With 384 murders as of Friday morning, the State would have paid at least $5,760,000 in autopsies…

  • Aug, Sun, 2024
Ex-inmate Richard Huggins now artist

Senior Investigative Reporter shaliza.hassanali@guardian.co.tt When Richard Huggins was convicted of the 1997 murder of Thackoor Boodram, the brother of reputed drug lord Dole Chadee, few could have predicted the transformation…

  • Aug, Sun, 2024
Man robbed of $2,700 by gyrating bandit

A Morvant woman who robbed an elderly man of $2,700 in cash on Thursday at a fast foot outlet in Port-of-Spain has been arrested. The 61-year-old victim of Picton Road,…

  • Aug, Sun, 2024
Writing to Vido:

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (August 17, 1932–August 11, 2018), Nobel Laureate and Booker Prize winner, was a Trinidad-born writer whose work delved deeply into themes of identity, displacement, and post-colonial life.…