Trinidad Express
Tobago Tops National Junior Calypso Monarch Competition 2024
- Title
- Tobago Tops National Junior Calypso Monarch Competition 2024
- Runtime
- 3:54
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Fourteen year old Nataki Thompson of Scarborough Secondary School was victorious in claiming the title of National Junior Calypso Monarch 2024 after winning the hearts of the judges with the performance of her song “Your Purpose”.
Video by Express Journalist Sherlan Ramsubhag
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- Title
- Hinds on Camo clothes
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- While the use of camouflage clothing which resembles that worn by national security personnel remains illegal in this country, Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds said yesterday that not all aspects are illegal.
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- Title
- US helping with Carnival crime
- Runtime
- 1:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Trinidad and Tobago is working with authorities in the United States to ensure that this year’s Carnival season will be a safe and enjoyable one.
This was disclosed by Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds yesterday during a news conference held at the Ministry of National Security building on Abercromby Street in Port of Spain.
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- Title
- Tancoo on Crime
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Crime is clearly the only industry that is flourishing in Trinidad and Tobago right now.This from the Member of Parliament for Oropouche West Davendranath Tancoo.
Tancoo was speaking yesterday during the Opposition’s Sunday Media Briefing
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- Title
- Machel magic at Skinner Park
- Runtime
- 2:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- “I feel like a child all over again.”
Soca star Machel Montano beamed those words through a wide smile, following his venue-shaking performance at Calypso Fiesta, on Saturday night, in Skinner Park, San Fernando.
Footage: TTT live broadcast
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- Title
- Moonilal: Explain Dragon Deal
- Runtime
- 2:31
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition MP Dr Roodal Moonilal has challenged the government to reveal the details of the agreement between the Trinidad and Tobago and the government of Venezuela, regarding the Dragon Field gas deal.
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- Title
- Grieving mother hugs Shiva's coffin
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Neeta Lochan bids farewell to her son, Shiva Lochan, at his funeral service performed under Hindu rites at their Wellington Road home in Debe on February 2, 2024.
Shiva's body was found in a decomposing state and was identified through DNA testing.
- Title
- T&T attracting international organised crime, says PM
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said that because Trinidad and Tobago is now attracting elements of international organised crime, the government is engaged in discussions with the United States to get as much help as they can in ensuring that the country's bad situation is not worsened by these developments.
- Title
- Rowley: Dragon gas deal still alive
- Runtime
- 4:21
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the Dragon gas deal between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela is not dead.
Speaking at a press conference on February 2, 2024, Rowley was addressing the issue of the United States re-imposing sanctions against Venezuela and US companies doing business with Venezuela’s state-owned mining company having to conclude transactions by February 13..
- Title
- Doubles man shot, robbed of $18,000
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Debe doubles vendor Deosaran Ramjewan is shot twice in front of his wife and two children, and the family robbed of $18,000 by three armed men at their home on January 31, 2024.
Express chief photographer Dexter Philip visited the scene and captured this video.
- Title
- OWTU calls on Paria to compensate dead divers' families
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Oilfield Workers' Trade Union's Pointe-a-Pierre branch president, Christopher Jackman, calls on Paria Fuel to do the right thing and compensate the family members of the four divers who perished in a 36-inch pipe in February 2022.
Vanessa Kussie, wife of diver Rishi Nagassar, said she would not back down in the fight against Paria.
- Title
- Independent Senator questions mandate of popular 'Beyond the Tape' show
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Independent Senator Paul Richards questions the validity of certain comments uttered by Senior Supt Roger Alexander as host of TV6’s Beyond the Tape daily evening programme.
At the Parliament’s Joint Select Committee meeting on national security on January 31, 2024, Richards said there were contradictory statements from the Police Commissioner and those uttered on the show.
Police Commissioner Erla Christopher has since removed Alexander as host.
- Title
- TTPS aiming for 11 minutes response time
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Commissioner Erla Christopher said the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is aiming to have a response time of 11 minutes across the board.
Appearing before Parliament's Joint Select Committee on National Security on January 31, 2024, Christopher said based on recorded calls in 2021 and 2022, the current response time is 12 minutes.
- Title
- Barrackpore man murdered near drug den
- Runtime
- 2:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Ralph Edwards speaks to the media after the body of his son Lalchan Edwards was discovered near a bamboo grove on Smart Avenue Extension off Lachoos Road in Penal on January 31, 2024.
- Title
- Praedial larceny a million dollar business
- Runtime
- 3:39
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Director of the Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago, Donny Rogers, said praedial larceny, one of the biggest issues facing food production in the country, has now turned into a multi-million-dollar criminal enterprise.
- Title
- Rescue team: Ayube is not one of us
- Runtime
- 5:12
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Hunters Search and Rescue Team (HSRT) led Vallence Rambharat has put out a disclaimer to comments made by Shamshudeen Ayube during his appearance at an anti-crime town hall organised by the United national Congress on January 29, 2024.
Ayube claimed that he came up with the name for the HSRT and that he was the one to have it registered.
However, Rambharat said Ayube is not a member of the HRST and that the organisation he leads is non political and not an authority on crime and criminality.
- Title
- Opioid crisis looming in Trinidad and Tobago
- Runtime
- 4:52
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Clinical psychologist Dr Valini Pundit said there's a quiet opioid crisis in Trinidad and Tobago which is largely being ignored.
She called on the government to address the situation as it has the potential for abuse and dependency, leading to addiction and physiological effects in young adults.
- Title
- High Street vendors refuse to be relocated
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Taking their protest into a second day, vendors of High Street, San Fernando calls on mayor Robert Parris to rescind his decision to have them relocated to Mucurapo Street.
The vendors called on God to turn Parris' ‘heart of stone’ into a ‘heart of flesh.’
- Title
- Indarsingh: Labour minister must step down
- Runtime
- 3:51
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition MP Rudranath Indarsingh calls for the immediate resignation of Labour Minister Stephen McClashie, the line minister for the Occupational Safety and Health Authority and Agency (OSHA).
Indarsingh said OSHA failed abysmally in the execution of their statutory role as lead investigator in the February 2022 Paria diving tragedy where four divers lost their lives.
- Title
- Health minister launches influenza vaccination drive
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh distributes masks to members of the public at the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) hub at City Gate, Port of Spain on January 24, 2024.
The mask distribution was part of the Health Ministry Influenza Vaccine Drive.
- Title
- Roget: Get rid of Paria's board
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget calls on Paria Fuel Trading Company to fire chairman Newman George and his entire board after the findings of a Commission of Enquiry into the February 22 death of four divers stated Paria may be held criminally liable.
- Title
- PM pays tribute to Panday
- Runtime
- 3:27
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley pays tribute to Basdeo Panday during the 10th Sitting of the 12th Parlaiment on January 19, 2024.
Panday, the fifth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, passed away on January 1, 2024 at the age of 90.
- Title
- Lawyer calls for $5 million for each family of dead divers
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Attorney Prakash Ramadhar calls on State-owned Paria Fuel Trading Co to make ex-gratia payments of at least $5 million to each of the families of divers Fyzal Kurban, Kazim Ali Jr, Yusuf Henry and Rishi Nagassar.
The four lost their lives in a pipeline incident at Paria in February 2022.
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- Title
- PM Rowley laments slow energy approvals
- Runtime
- 3:41
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has attributed the slow approval process for getting energy projects off the ground in Trinidad and Tobago to workers’ “cultural lackadaisical approach” and “slothfulness”.
He made the comment during the Energy Town Hall segment of this year’s T&T Energy Conference in response to a question from the Energy Chamber’s president Dr Thackwray Driver on January 22, 2024.
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- Title
- Rowley: $100m for at-risk communities
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said his Government will make $100 million available so that announced that the Defence Force can go into at-risk communities to provide the support needed to ensure safety and opportunity for the people of those communities, which are plagued by violent gang actions.
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- Title
- PM slams Gary
- Runtime
- 3:21
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley trained his guns on former Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith, who he said “surreptitiously” changed the FUL policy so that dealers were getting permission to import into Trinidad and Tobago as many guns as they can, and millions of rounds of ammunition were being made available.
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- Title
- Gary fights back
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Former police commissioner Gary Griffith denies the “lies” levelled against him by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds that during his tenure there were questionable issuance of firearm user’s licences (FULs) and importation of millions of rounds of ammunition.
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- Title
- Trinidad and Tobago looks at constitutional reform
- Runtime
- 2:53
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said Cabinet has approved a seven-member national advisory committee to spearhead the early initiative towards the reform of the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago.
The committee is task with doing the necessary groundwork towards the promoting and convening of a national conference and consultation to be held in June 2024.
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- Title
- Holy Faith Convent Penal celebrates historic Junior Panorama title
- Runtime
- 2:41
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Arranger Neil Simon leads members of Holy Faith Convent Penal Steel Orchestra through a performance of their 2024 Junior Panorama winning piece Savannah Grass during a victory celebration at the school compound on January 17, 2024.
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- Title
- Griffith: Amend law to deal with gangsters as terrorists
- Runtime
- 3:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Former Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith calls for amendments to the Anti-Terrorism Act whereby gangsters can now be defined as terrorists and prosecuted accordingly.
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- Title
- What happened to my baby, Sharday?
- Runtime
- 4:39
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Junior Emmanuel shares the six-year torture he and his wife Marilyn has been dealing with since their 20-year-old daughter Sharday went missing in 2018.
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- Title
- Johnny: TTPS lacking leadership
- Runtime
- 2:50
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Former head of the Central Division, retired senior superintendent Johnny Abraham says there is no leadership in the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) and as a result, officers lack motivation and are are afraid to challenge the criminals.
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- Title
- Driver cornered, killed after chase
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Pleasantville resident Renako Pierre was shot multiple times and killed in his vehicle after being pursued through several streets in San Fernando by occupants of another vehicle on January 15, 2024.
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- Title
- Trouble brewing over vending ban
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- High Street in San Fernando, a notorious hub of commerce and street trade, may soon see major changes as its street vendors have been asked by the City to close their stalls and cease selling along the major thoroughfare.
This video of City Mayor Robert Parris speaking to vendors yesterday was captured by Express Chief Photographer Dexter Philip
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- Title
- Protests at Pepper Village
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Frustrated residents of Pepper Village, Gran Couva, blocked the roads on January 15, 2024 in protest of worsening road conditions caused by dangerous landslides that continue to plague the area.
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- Title
- Mical Teja "DNA" gets Road March approval.
- Runtime
- 2:38
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Mical Teja performs his runaway 2024 Carnival hit "DNA" at College Boy Jesse concert titled " Soca Love Story" held at Sound forge, Mucurapo Road St james on Saturday. @MicalTeja @collegeboyjesse.19 #trinidadandtobago #dna
- Title
- Sinanan: Third highway lane to San Fernando
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- THE temporary bypass lane being constructed along the Solomon Hochoy Highway, near the Macaulay Overpass, will form part of a third lane of the highway to San Fernando.
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- Title
- Relaxed dress code for visits to Government offices
- Runtime
- 4:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A new dress code policy announced by the Ministry of Public Administration on January 12, 2024 makes it now acceptable to wear slippers, shorts and vests when conducting business at Government offices.
The relaxed policy comes into effect from January 15, 2024.
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- Title
- Pan is an important institution to South Trinidad
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Convenor of San Fernando Carnival Dawad Philip speaks on the historical as well as important role pan plays in the cultural landscape of South Trinidad, especially the city of San Fernando.
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- Title
- Penal residents protest for new school
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Residents of Penal Rock Road staged a fiery road protest on January 11, 2024 as they heightened their calls for a new building for pupils of St Dominic’s RC Primary School, Penal.
At one point, the action became heated when a protester and a police officer ended up in a confrontation.
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- Title
- Bully cop faces disciplinary action
- Runtime
- 0:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- An police officer attached to the St Joseph Police Station is facing disciplinary action after video that was leaked online on January 10, 2024 shows him slapping away a phone from a civilian’s hand.
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- Title
- Macaulay madness - no end to traffic
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- For the past week motorists have had to endure four to five hours in traffic due to repair works being conducted on the Solomon Hochoy Highway in the vicinity of the Macaulay overpass, due to a collapsed on one of the southbound lanes.
To ease the impact, two lanes are now being constructed on the median but this also adds to the stress endured by motorists.
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- Title
- A Tearful thank you from Mickela
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Daughter of Former Prime Minister Mickela Panday was moved to tears as she eulogised her father at his State funeral at SAPA, in San Fernando, yesterday.
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- Title
- CELEBRATING PANDAY
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- An astonishing scene has unfolded at the Shore of Peace cremation site where hundreds of people have already gathered to await the arrival of the body of Basdeo Panday.The funeral procession is expected before noon.Video by Express chief photographer Dexter Philip.
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- Title
- Kees sings Sinatra for Panday
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Soca artiste Kees Dieffenthaller delivered a rendition of Frank Sinatra’s 1969 song, “My Way,” at the funeral of Former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday at the Southern Academy for Performing Arts (SAPA). Video by Express photojournalist Jermaine Cruikshank.
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- Title
- Final Farewell
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The funeral procession of former prime minister Basdeo Panday to the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts in San Fernando. Videos by Express Chief Photographer Dexter Philip and CCN's Cindy Raghubar-Teekasingh
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- Title
- Final Rites: Just like his Ancestors
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The body of former prime minister Basdeo Panday is carried into the Shore of Peace for a traditional Hindu cremation, where many of his loved ones have gone before him. Hundreds were there to say goodbye. Video by CCN's Cindy Raghubar-Teekasingh.
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- Title
- Nunez-Tisheira climbs SAPA fence
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Former President of the senate Timothy Hamel Smith and former PNM Government minister Karen Nunez Tisheira jumped the railing to get onto the compound of the Southern Academy of Performing Arts to try to sit in the auditorium for the funeral service of the late Basdeo Panday.
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- Title
- Presentation College say farewell to Basdeo Panday
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Principal of Presentation College San Fernando Dexter Mitchell and a contingent of students said it was an honour to represent the alma mater of the late former prime minister Basdeo Panday, and to attend his funeral service at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts on January 9, 2024, to pay their respects.
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- Title
- Mickela: Our dad was fearless
- Runtime
- 3:30
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In delivering the eulogy at the funeral service of her father and former prime minister Basdeo Panday, an emotional Mickela Panday remembered him as a strong-willed, disciplined and very supportive father who though his children to be focused, yet embrace the importance of having a sense of humour.
Panday, who died at the age of 90 on New Year's day, was given a State funeral on January 9, 2024, for his dedicated service to his country.
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