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Subhas: Even near death he gave thought to the poor

Title: Subhas: Even near death he gave thought to the poor
Runtime: 1:32
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Subhas Panday told mourners his brother Basdeo Panday was so attuned to helping the poor that even nearing his death on a hospital bed in Florida, he asked his wife Oma to donate the land they owned in St Julien Village, Princes Town, for use as a shelter for battered women and homeless children.

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Prayer for the departed soul of Basdeo Panday

Title: Prayer for the departed soul of Basdeo Panday
Runtime: 0:57
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Pundit Artma Maharaj leads the family of former prime minister Basdeo Panday in Hindu prayer, prior to the public viewing of his body at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts in San Fernando on January 8, 2024.

Mickela: Dad's death is immensely hard but we're coping

Title: Mickela: Dad's death is immensely hard but we're coping
Runtime: 2:16
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Mickela Panday said the death of her father Basdeo Panday had brought “immense grief and loss” to her close-knit family but they continue to be strengthened by the outpouring of love and support from members of the public.

She said her mother, Oma, was grieving the loss of her life partner.

Ramdial: He was a passionate man and a people person

Title: Ramdial: He was a passionate man and a people person
Runtime: 3:10
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Former member of parliament for Couva North, Ramona Ramdial, said seeing the body of former prime minister Basdeo Pandeo was surreal to her.

She noted that they had a close relationship and that he was passionate on constitutional reform, something she was also passionate about.

Panday passed away on New year's day at the age of 90 and will be given a State funeral on January 9, 2024.

Mickela: My father received love in life and in death

Title: Mickela: My father received love in life and in death
Runtime: 1:59
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Mickela Panday, who was full of gratitude for the host of citizens that turned up at the Red House in Port of Spain to pay tribute to her late father and former prime minister Basdeo Panday, said he was love in life and even more so in death.

Panday, who died on New Year's Day, will be sent off in a State funeral on January 9, 2024.

Title: Military procession for Basdeo Panday
Runtime: 1:19
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Hundreds of spectators line the streets of downtown Port of Spain on January 5, 2024 to view the casket casket of former prime minister Basdeo Panday, during a military procession en route to the Red House where it would lie in state.

Title: Panday's legacy will live on
Runtime: 1:41
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Minister in the Ministry of Works and Transport Richie Sookhai on signing the condolence book, said that the former prime minister’s legacy will continue to live on overtime.

“His teachings, the way that he elaborated, the way he debated, that he even explained his position on certain things, us young politicians need to revisit that, that is a time, that era, we need to go back…...learn that elegant art that is slowly being eroded, he had that."

Cross: Panday understood the nuances of politics

Title: Cross: Panday understood the nuances of politics
Runtime: 1:47
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: British High Commissioner Harriet Cross said Basdeo Panday had the ability to build bridges and forge international partnerships during his political career.

Cross was one of many persons who singed the condolence book at the Rotunda Red House, Port of Spain, on January 4, after Panday passed away on New Year's day at the age of 90.

Mom, daughter killed in domestic violence shooting

Title: Mom, daughter killed in domestic violence shooting
Runtime: 2:57
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Domestic violence is said to be the cause of the deaths of Calida Schamber and her 66-year-old mother Carmilita De Leon.

Both were shot dead at their Shorelands, Point Cumana home on January 2, 2024 by a man Calida shares a one-year-old son with.

The perpetrator is said to be a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force.

Pregnant mom killed in Arima double murder

Title: Pregnant mom killed in Arima double murder
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: This is the modest home where 21-year-old pregnant mother of two Amy Walcott and a 16-year-old relative Roshan Ali were shot and killed by gunmen on December 29, 2023.

Walcott's common-law husband Daniel Alibocas, 18, and a 13-year-old school- boy were also injured in the attack at their small neighbourhood in Zone Eight, Mt Zion Road, Arima.

Title: Flooding disaster hits Chaguanas family
Runtime: 2:17
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Chaguanas mother of two Latisha Brown shows the extent of the December 28, 2023 flooding that left her St Paul Street home inundated with water.

Title: Flash floods hit Central Trinidad
Runtime: 1:07
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Flash flooding following torrential mid-afternoon rainfall on December 28, 2023, left several streets and premises in Chaguanas under water, including Presentation College Chaguanas.

Title: Three killed in highway shooting
Runtime: 1:02
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Three men were killed while driving along west-bound lane of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in the vicinity of Spring Village, Valsayn.

According to reports, the men were occupants of a white station wagon which crashed when when gunmen opened fire on the vehicle.

The men exited the vehicle and attempted to flee but were pursued and shot dead by their attackers.

T&T, Venezuela agree to Dragon gas production and export

Title: T&T, Venezuela agree to Dragon gas production and export
Runtime: 1:42
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Trinidad and Tobago has been granted a licence to exploit, produce and export natural gas from the Dragon Field located in Venezuela.

The licence was finalised by both parties on December 21, 2023.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley described the agreement as a historic event on a historic day for both countries.

Title: Marabella mother, son laid to rest
Runtime: 0:50
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Grieving relatives of Hollice Thomas and her son Noel, view their bodies during their funeral service on December 22, 2023, at Belgroves Memorial Chapel, Coffee Street, San Fernando.

The mother and son were found stabbed to death at their Marabella apartment on December 12, 2023.

Farley worried about gang activity in Tobago

Title: Farley worried about gang activity in Tobago
Runtime: 1:41
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Chief Secretary Farley Augustine expressed concern over over Tobago recording three murders in one week.

Farley made the comment at the December 21, 2023 sitting of the Tobago House of Assembly, during which Christmas greetings were extended to President Christine Kangaloo, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar and other members of Parliament.

AG: Updated legislation to target cybercrimes

Title: AG: Updated legislation to target cybercrimes
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The Computer Misuse Act will be replaced by an updated legislation package designed to deal with cybercrimes.

So said Attorney General Reginald Armour during debate on the Finance Bill in the Senate on December 19. 2023.

Title: Sunity warns of widening education gap
Runtime: 2:39
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Independent Senator Sunity Maharaj expresses concerns that the tax allowance on corporate sponsorship may widen inequalities in the education sector between the so-called prestige schools and the rest.

Commissioner of Valuation cannot issue notice of tax

Title: Commissioner of Valuation cannot issue notice of tax
Runtime: 1:16
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Finance Minister Colm Imbert noted that while the notices of valuation were issued by the Commissioner of Valuation, that office could not legally send a property owner a notice of tax, which only the Board of Inland Revenue can do.

His statement came in response to a question posed by Independent Senator Dr Maria Dillon-Remy in the Senate during debate on the Finance Bill on December 19, 2023.

Homeowners complain about high rental valuation for property tax

Title: Homeowners complain about high rental valuation for property tax
Runtime: 9:23
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: With Property Tax due to commence from January 1, 2024, Finance Minister said some homeowners in from “prestigious neighbourhoods” in Trinidad and Tobago have complained about the the high valuation of their property for tax purposes.

Transit sheds tampering delaying clearance of goods

Title: Transit sheds tampering delaying clearance of goods
Runtime: 4:47
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Finance Minister Colm Imbert disclosed that people have broken into transit sheds at the Customs and Excise Division and stolen illegal weapons from packages which were of interest to international law enforcement.

Imbert was at the time responding to an urgent question from Opposition Senator Wade Mark at the December 19 sitting of the Senate, on what measures were being taken by the Customs and Excise Division to allow citizens to clear their goods in time for Christmas.

Title: WPC under probe for false testimony
Runtime: 2:46
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: A probe has been launched into the actions of WPC Francesca Thomas after she admitted to lying under oath in order to secure a conviction.

WPC Thomas told the court she that she was the one who knocked on the door of shop owner Kaveed Mohammed when they went to execute a search warrant and she was the one who was in the shop when items of jewelry deemed to be illegally possessed, were found.

CCTV footage showed both those statements to be false, to which Thomas later admitted they were.

Baptist Church desecrated, items set on fire

Title: Baptist Church desecrated, items set on fire
Runtime: 3:02
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Following what appears to be a deliberately set fire at a Spiritual Baptist church in Claxton Bay on December 17, one of the elders go through a prayer ritual.

According to one of the members, a Bible, wooden benches, altar, drums, clay vases, and other sacred vessels of the St Francis Shrine Church of the All-Saints were stacked in the middle of the church and set alight at around 8 p.m.

Title: ‘Crime costing T&T millions’
Runtime: 2:11
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said crime is costing the country millions of dollars.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the D’Abadie/Malabar community swimming pool on December 15, 2023, Rowley said it is the government’s hope that spending more money on community programmes such as those that will be provided by the pool will result in a reduction in crime and, by extension, result in less money being spent at courthouses and the Privy Council.

Title: Marlene - a woman for the people
Runtime: 2:10
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: A woman for the people.
This was how former government minister and deputy leader of the People’s National Movement (PNM) Marlene McDonald was remembered by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley at her funeral service on December 15, 2023.

McDonald, 64, died on December 8 at St Clair Medical Centre.

Easing of tension between Guyana and Venezuela

Title: Easing of tension between Guyana and Venezuela
Runtime: 1:22
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro arrives for his face-to-face meeting with President Irfaan Ali of Guyana on December 14, 2023, to discuss the Essequibo dispute.

The meeting, which was hosted by the government of St Vincent and the Grenadines, was brokered by Caricom/CELAC and Brazil.

Both parties agreed to a Joint Declaration of Argyle for Dialogue and Peace Between Guyana and Venezuela.

Corporation demolishes guard booth at Bamboo #2

Title: Corporation demolishes guard booth at Bamboo #2
Runtime: 2:38
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The controversial guard booth constructed at Bamboo Settlement #2 in Valsayn, was demolished by the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation on December 14.

Businessman Inshan Ishmael, who was instrumental in its erection, called the move a case of "Animal Farm" politics and absolute madness.

Title: T&T at risk to earthquakes, tsunamis
Runtime: 2:12
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Retired Major General Rodney Smart said the greatest risks of natural disasters facing Trinidad and Tobago is that of earthquakes and tsunamis.

Smart, chief executive officer of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management, drew reference the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, which he said was preceded by an earthquake.

Salvation Army donates 300 hampers to needy

Title: Salvation Army donates 300 hampers to needy
Runtime: 2:51
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Sieunarine Coosal, chairman of Coosal’s Group of Companies, praised the Salvation Army for its tireless work in bring relief to those in need.

On December 12, the Salvation Army held its Christmas Hamper distribution at its Henry Street, Port of Spain headquarters, where 300 hampers were distributed.

During the distribution, Trinidad and Tobago divisional leader Major Chris Matthias appealed to citizens to continue to donate generously towards the effort.

No contract renewal for Industrial Court president, unions condemns decision

Title: No contract renewal for Industrial Court president, unions condemns decision
Runtime: 3:06
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: President of the Joint Trade Union Movement, Ancel Roget has condemned the decision of the State to not renew the contract of Industrial Court president Deborah Thomas-Felix.

Roget said in what is poor industrial relations practice, Thomas-Felix was informed of the decision a mere two days before the expiration of her contract, albeit, while she was out of the country.

Kamla: Stand your ground and "empty the clip"

Title: Kamla: Stand your ground and "empty the clip"
Runtime: 2:53
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Political leader of the United National Congress, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, renewed her call for stand your ground legislation and for citizens to be granted the right to bear arms.

She said if that is legislated, law-abiding citizens can “empty the clip” on criminals when they are attacked.

Title: Mother, son stabbed to death
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The bodies of Hollice Thomas, 40, and her eight-year-old Noel, are removed from their Battoo Street apartment in Marabella on December 12.

Both victims were stabbed in their neck and died as a result.

The bodies were discovered by Thomas' common-law husband Marcus John upon his return from work.

Title: Machel gets key to City of San Fernando
Runtime: 2:04
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Soca star Machel Montano is presented with the key to the City of San Fernando on December 10, in recognition of his role as a cultural ambassador and the “King of Soca”.

Mother, son perish in deadly New Grant fire

Title: Mother, son perish in deadly New Grant fire
Runtime: 1:04
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Fire officials survey the scene of the fatal fire that claimed the lives of Surujdai Soogrim, 92, and her mentally ill son Boysie Sonnyboy, 63, on December 10, 2003.

The cause of the fire, which destroyed their School Trace, New Grant home, is unknown.

'If you see something, say something' anti-crime initiative launched

Title: 'If you see something, say something' anti-crime initiative launched
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Assistant Commissioner of Police Alicia Henry is joined by San Fernando Mayor Robert Parris as the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service launch the "if you see something, say something" anti-crime initiative in downtown San Fernando on December 8, 2023.

No mediation by T&T in Guyana/Venezuela dispute over Essequibo region

Title: No mediation by T&T in Guyana/Venezuela dispute over Essequibo region
Runtime: 2:47
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the government will not heed the call of the Opposition to mediate the impasse between Guyana and Venezuela over Venezuela's fight for the Essequibo Region.

He said to do so would be going against the manner Guyana wants the dispute to be settled.

CoE report will not be sanitised, says Rowley

Title: CoE report will not be sanitised, says Rowley
Runtime: 2:04
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the tragedy of the drowning of four drivers in an underwater pipeline at Paria in February 2022, will go through the appropriate channel when it is received by Cabinet.

He said the question of the report being sanitised by Cabinet was an impertinence.

...‘Whatever it takes, we will defend our country’

Title: ...‘Whatever it takes, we will defend our country’
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: AS the conflict between Venezuela and Guyana over Essequibo intensifies, Guyana’s Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday declared, “We will spare no effort in safeguarding every bit of the territory of this country.”

Jagdeo restated the government’s stance during the weekly news conference—that the government’s paramount interest was keeping their “country and people safe”.

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Title: 5 killed as GDF helicopter crashes
Runtime: 1:08
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Five Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers died in Wednesday’s helicopter crash in Essequibo county about 30 miles east of the border with Venezuela.

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Title: Fire guts Palmiste Govt Primary
Runtime: 0:30
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Pupils at the Palmiste Government Primary School were denied a Christmas treat on the last day of the school term (Dec 7), after a fire ravaged the school building.
The blaze destroyed everything inside the school, including the pupils' report books which were to be distributed.

Title: Ali: Nothing to fear
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Guyanese President Irfaan Ali has assured business people that their investments in Guyana are safe as the country battles increased aggression from Venezuela to take control of the Essequibo region

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Title: Ali: We will resist
Runtime: 1:25
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Tension between Venezuela and Guyana rose sky-high yesterday following a bold move by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to grab Guyana’s Essequibo by ordering its state oil companies to begin exploiting the oil and mineral resources in the disputed region.

Following Maduro’s move, Ali immediately fired back in a nationally televised address on Tuesday at 11 p.m., describing it as a “dangerous development” that Guyana will resist

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Title: Moonilal hits 'Mickey Mouse Club'
Runtime: 1:17
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Kamla Persad-Bissessar is the leader of the United National Congress (UNC) and people should not be distracted by the “Mickey Mouse Club” campaigning for leadership when there is no vacancy, says Opposition MP Dr Roodal Moonilal.

Speaking at the UNC cottage meeting at Penal Presbyterian School on Monday night, Moonilal urged supporters to stay focused and united as he could “feel victory” in his bones when a general election is called

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Title: Kamla calls for food cards
Runtime: 1:59
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has questioned the delay in providing food cards to members of Parliament to distribute to the vulnerable in their communities during the Christmas period

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Title: Kamla on the Guyana/Venezuela conflict
Runtime: 2:09
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: You touch one, you touch all! We unequivocally support the people of Guyana in this crisis. Stay out of Essequibo. So declared Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as she blasted Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

She spoke at a UNC cottage meeting on Monday evening.

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Title: Moonilal calls for Skinner Park probe
Runtime: 1:25
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: A probe must be launched into the $200 million refurbishment works at Skinner Park, San Fernando, where a pavilion was constructed in the wrong place and has rendered the venue useless to play sport, says Opposition MP Dr Roodal Moonilal.

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Title: Two in a row for Chord Masters
Runtime: 2:50
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Chord Masters Steel Orchestra captured its second successive National Panorama Single Pan title at the Queen's park Savannah in Port of Spain on December 3.

The defending champion top the 20-band field with its Andre White arrangement of Mighty Gabby’s 1994 hit “Doctor Cassandra”.

PM Rowley meets with bp's executive in London

Title: PM Rowley meets with bp's executive in London
Runtime: 0:28
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley, met with bp’s interim chief executive officer, Murray Auchincloss at the company’s headquarters in London on December 4.

In reaffirmed its commitment to Trinidad and Tobago, bp emphasised that the Caribbean country remains an important component of its global operations.

Title: Guyanese rally for Essequibo
Runtime: 0:26
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: While hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans were voting to determine whether their nation should annex the Essequibo Region, a large number of Guyana’s 804,000 citizens observed the day with human chains, prayers and solidarity marches around the country.

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Title: Trouble with the border
Runtime: 0:22
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: A Caribbean Communications Network (CCN) team went to
to the Guyana/ Venezuela border along the Barima River this wekend to report on the dispute. This is one of many crossing points by river and land that exist near the town of Mabaruma in Region One, Guyana.

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