Trinidad Express
Public servants to receive backpay
- Title
- Public servants to receive backpay
- Runtime
- 4:12
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Public servants whose representative unions accepted the 4% wage increase offered by Government, will receive their backpay by December.
This was the assurance given by Finance Minister Colm Imbert during a press conference on November 1, 2023.
- Title
- Firemen rescue stuck rooftop robbery suspect
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Fire officers were called to rescue a bandit after he became stuck between the wall of a shopping centre and another building.
The suspect was one of five men arrested by police after they were observed on the rooftop of Town Centre Mall in Port of Spain, during the early hours of October 31.
The men were found to be in possession of a black bag containing several sneakers, slippers, clothing and house-breaking implements, as well as a loaded firearm.
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- Title
- Retired fire officers protest for $23m
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A group of retired firemen stage a protest outside Fire Service headquarters at Wrightson Road, Port of Spain, on October 31. 2023.
They say they are owed about $23 million in meals and housing allowances, and they would like to get what is owed to them.
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- Title
- Elderly couple survives crash
- Runtime
- 0:30
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Clifton Riley embraced his wife tightly minutes after they both escaped a fiery crash along on the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway, near the Piarco intersection yesterday.
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- Title
- Glowing tribute for 'hardworking' WASA employee
- Runtime
- 3:19
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) acting chief executive officer, Kelvin Romaine, paid glowing tribute to employee Kern Ettienne, during his funeral service at the Embacadere Community Centre in San Fernando on October 30.
Ettienne, 39, was buried alive by a mound of dirt when 12-foot trench he was working in caved-in.
Express chief photographer Dexter Philip was at the funeral and captured this video.
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- Title
- Religious hatred not fuelling attacks
- Runtime
- 2:41
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley agrees with Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar that religious hatred and intolerance were not why places of worship were being attacked.
Persad-Bissessar noted there have been attacks on churches, mosques and temples and it was dangerous to suggest that the recent attacks on Hindu temples without an “iota of evidence” was fuelled by religious hatred.
The Prime Minister said the police must stop these events of criminality.
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- Title
- PM: Opposition undermined T&T’s foreign policy
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Following a declaration of support for Guyana in the conflict with Venezuela over the Essequibo region, by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the Opposition has either undermined the country’s foreign policy or made a fool of themselves.
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- Title
- Rowley: Has the public service gone mad?
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said his Cabinet is not going to tolerate public servants who believe they can do whatever they want.
He noted that after Finance Minister Colm Imbert signalled to the Parliament that the Government will put things to place to ensure that public servant receive their 4% wage increase by December, a permanent secretary writes to Finance Minister telling him that it cannot be done until next May.
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- Title
- Something radically wrong, says PM
- Runtime
- 2:18
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said something has to be radically wrong with the refusal of the Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard, SC, to occupy a building meant to house the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, after $55 million was spent by taxpayers in leasing and outfitting the building.
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- Title
- Flooding in East Trinidad after heavy rain
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Several communities in East Trinidad were left under flood water following a period of torrential rainfall accompanied by by high winds and frequent lightning on October 25, 2023..
The eastbound lane of the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway in the vicinity of Orange Grove, Trincity Mall and the Priority Bus Route in Macoya, as well as Back Street in Tunapuna were all flooded.
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- Title
- Renuka: Two sides to Opposition's mouth on crime
- Runtime
- 4:48
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General, Renuka Sagramsingh-Sooklal, accused the Opposition of “talking from the two sides of its mouth”
Speaking during the budget debate in the Senate on October 24, she said what was required to deal with crime was “draconian pieces of legislation, but while the Opposition consistently bemoaned the spiralling crime rate, they are not prepared to support legislation to curb it.
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- Title
- Teemal: Desecration not the work of vagrants
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Independent Senator Deoroop Teemal yesterday urged the police not to “dismiss” the acts of desecration directed at Hindu temples as the work of a vagrant or a mentally disturbed person.
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- Title
- Lutchmedial: Govt creating single mother homes
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Lambasting the Government for its “intellectual laziness”, UNC Senator Jayanti Lutchmedial said restrictions on bail were creating single mother households
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- Title
- Investments paying off in T&T, says Trade Minister
- Runtime
- 3:05
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon said Trinidad and Tobago has benefitted from a number of investments in fiscal 2023, as there are currently more than $3 billion in investments on the non-energy side, with foreign direct investment accounting for $1 billion and local investment accounting for $2.2 billion, all amounting to 2,905 jobs.
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- Title
- NGC recognises agriculture entrepreneur Alpha Sennon
- Runtime
- 0:29
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- National Gas Company (NGC) president Mark Loquan and 2023 Above and Beyond honouree Alpha Sennon plant a tree to commemorate the event honouring his achievement.
Sennon, the founder of WHYfarm, was recognised by NGC for his contribution to agriculture and youth participation.
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- Title
- New Hospital Block
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The official topping off Ceremony for the New Central Block at the Port of Spain General Hospital was attended by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh.
Video by Express photojournalist Jermaine Cruickshank
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- Title
- Ravana Rebuilt
- Runtime
- 2:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- On Sunday, hours before an effigy of the Hindu demon-king Ravana was erected at the Tarouba Ramleela ground in Marabella, someone set fire to the structure. However, as news of the desecration spread villagers and well wishers went to the site to assist in rebuilding the effigy.
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- Title
- Children with disabilities get a place for therapy
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- After being turned away from the National Enrichment Centre in Carlsen Field earlier this month, children with cerebral palsy can again benefit from the free therapy sessions offered to them through the Cerebral Palsy Society of Trinidad and Tobago.
This video of the Society's meeting with the Chaguanas Borough Corporation was filmed by Express photojournalist Ishmael Salandy.
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- Title
- Lyder: Ministers out of touch with realities
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Senator Damian Lyder says Minister of Finance, Colm Imbert and Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon are out of touch with the realities that impact manufacturers and businesses in the country.
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- Title
- Saddam laments funding for police and Fire Service
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- OPPOSITION MP Saddam Hosein again called for National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds to be replaced, calling him “unfit for office” and claiming that business and the country’s living standards continue to decline, especially under increasing crime
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- Title
- Moonilal calls for independent inquiry
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Oropouche East Member of Parliament Roodal Moonilal has called on the government to account for the $11 million cost of the Commission of Enquiry (COE) into the Point Fortin to San Fernando Highway Extension project, which has yet to begin.
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- Title
- Ramleela grounds desecrated
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Just hours before an effigy of the Hindu demon-king Ravana was erected at the Tarouba Ramleela ground in Marabella, someone set fire to the structure yesterday morning.
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- Title
- 'Become the best version of yourselves'
- Runtime
- 6:51
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Former ASJA Girls' College San Fernando Principal, Yasmin Rahaman-Singh addresses students following her receipt of a national award in September.
Rahaman-Singh was awarded the Public Service Medal of Merit (Silver).
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- Title
- Big Arms Haul
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Another cache of weapons has been found in Santa Cruz.
This time, the cache included bulletproof vests, police uniforms, boots, sirens, police swivel lights and rifles.
Video By Express Photojournalist Ishmael Salandy
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- Title
- Cox on Senior Pensions
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Social Development Minister Donna Cox says she is not aware that there are delays of up to one year in the applications for senior citizen pensions.
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- Title
- Hinds spars with opposition members on Police Youth clubs
- Runtime
- 3:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- YESTERDAY’s Standing Finance Committee on the national budget 2024 saw National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds sparring verbally with Opposition MPs, over reduced funding to police youth clubs which they claimed would negatively impact the fight against crime.
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- Title
- Flood Gridlock
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Thousands of motorists and pedestrians were delayed for hours yesterday as a heavy downpour in Port of Spain caused flash flooding and standstill traffic. Video by Express photographic editor Robert Taylor.
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- Title
- Minister defends $1 increase for each school lunch
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Education Minister Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said the $1 per lunch increase which the Government gave last academic year to providers of school lunches under the School Feeding Programme is sufficient to cushion any increase in the cost of ingredients.
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- Title
- HINDS BACKPAY
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- MILLIONS in “backpay” are expected to soon reach fire, prison and some police officers following significant increases to salary allocations for the Ministry of National Security in 2024.
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- Title
- Fire Truck Crashes
- Runtime
- 0:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A number of firefighters in Tobago were involved in an accident yesterday morning in the Grange area.The crash occurred shortly before 7 a.m. and the road was later blocked off to vehicular traffic.
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- Title
- WASA Leak Affects Downtown Traffic
- Runtime
- 2:11
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- WASA Leak Affects Downtown Traffic
Repairs to one leak on Monday night lead to another yesterday morning in the vicinity of Frederick and Queen Street, Port of Spain.Vehicular traffic which used the area as a thoroughfare were forced to take alternative routes so that repairs could be done to an iron pipeline
Video By Express photojournalist Jermaine Cruickshank
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- Title
- Govt undermining national insurance system
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- THE Government is “deliberately and calculatedly” terminating thousands of jobs, and thereby reducing contributions to the National Insurance Board (NIB), United National Congress (UNC) Senator Wade Mark said on Sunday.
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- Title
- WASA ‘had no choice’
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) chief executive officer, Kelvin Romain, says he was concerned that so many customers were still protesting for a regular supply of pipeborne water. But, he said, in order to improve supply to households it was necessary to conduct routine maintenance work of the company’s facilities
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- Title
- T&T's Protest In Solidarity With Palestine
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Approximately 300 members of the Muslim community in Trinidad and Tobago gathered at the Queens Park Savannah in Port of Spain for a ‘Day of Pray and A March’ to show solidarity with Palestine yesterday.
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- Title
- Paray: Government out of touch
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Member of Parliament Rushton Paray says he is disturbed by how “out of touch” the current Government administration is.
Speaking at the weekly Sunday United National Congress (UNC) news conference yesterday, Paray referred to the 2024 Budget presentation as a wasted opportunity to connect with the people of the country, many of whom he said were suffering.
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- Title
- UWI Student killed in crash
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Just days before her graduation from the University of the West Indies with honours, a 22-year-old woman was killed in an accident on the South Trunk Road in La Romaine on Saturday night.
Video of the mangled vehicle, by Express Chief photographer Dexter Philip
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- Title
- PM ‘damn Annoyed’
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is “damn annoyed” with how the judicial system is granting bail to those charged with serious crimes. This is a brief clip of his contribution to the 2024 Budget debate.
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- Title
- Andrea Lallan's Funeral
- Runtime
- 1:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- WEEPING over his teenage daughter’s coffin, Eddie Lallan said he survived the gun attack at his home in Rio Claro to get justice for her. Andrea, 13, who was shot dead in her home two weeks ago, was dressed as a princess in a pink dress with a gold tiara, and her body lay in a white coffin for her funeral on Thursday.
Eddie, with his right arm heavily bandaged and in a sling, was escorted to the funeral by armed police officers.
Video by Express Chief photographer Dexter Philip
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- Title
- Kamla: PM should be National Security Minister
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday called on Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley to himself assume the post of National Security Minister and replace current Minister, Fitzgerald Hinds.
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- Title
- Gun attack on bodyguard of Deputy Prisons Commissioner
- Runtime
- 0:39
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A prisons officer was shot in a gun attack in Barataria today.The target is believed to have been the Deputy Prisons Commissioner, Sherwin Bruce
Video By Express photographic editor Robert Taylor
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- Title
- Donna Cox on the Cerebral Palsy Society
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Minister of Social Development and Family Services, Donna Cox, says that the developmentally disabled children who were last week turned away from receiving free therapy at the National Enrichment Centre in Carlsen Field, were illegally occupying the facility.
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- Title
- UWI fire
- Runtime
- 0:14
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Police are investigating the cause of a fire at the University of the West Indies which left four vehicles damaged.The incident was reported at about 11:24 a.m. in the vicinity of the JFK Staff Carpark, located on the southern side of the campus.
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- Title
- Vandana: I know nothing of what you speak
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Chaguanas East MP Vandana Mohit strenuously defended herself yesterday against any possible allegations of impropriety on her part during her period as an employee of the Social Development Ministry
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- Title
- The Fatal Explosion
- Runtime
- 3:09
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Rishi Maharaj, speaks to the Express at his home at Cap-de-Ville Village, Point Fortin, on Tuesday. Maharaj’s cousin Rekesh Ramnarine, died in a freak accident on Monday in Sangre Grande when he stopped to check the tyre of the truck he was driving, the tyre exploded killing Ramnarine instantly.
Video by Express Chief Photographer, Dexter Philip
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- Title
- Prime Minister attends Moonilal's defamation case
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley today attended a court matter at the International Waterfront, Port of Spain, in which Dr Roodal Moonilal has filed legal against him, the Trinidad Express newspaper and its editor in chief, alleging defamation.
Moonilal, who was also present for the matter, had sought an injunction restraining Dr Rowley and the newspaper from publishing alleged defamatory statements against him.
video by Express photojournalist Jermaine Cruickshank
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- Title
- Hinds: 'We will fight like hell'
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- “We will fight like hell” to protect the people from the criminals.
So said National Security Fitzgerald Hinds in his contribution in the Budget debate yesterday.
Saying that it “pained” him - as it did the rest of the nation- to see the video of a woman (Maralyn Callender-Morrison) being “dragged” (by criminals) on Charlotte Street, Hinds said he wanted as Minister to apologise to all the victims of crime. The video of Callendar-Morrison who was robbed of TT$65,000 and US$15,000 went viral last Friday.
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- Title
- Tears for his father
- Runtime
- 3:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- David Loubon speaks about the circumstances surrounding the death of his father. On Sunday John Loubon 58, a skilled labourer, died near his place of work in Brrasso Venado, close to Gran Couva. Family members were told that John fell off the back of a truck and subsequently died. Police suspect that the injuries were as a result of being chopped. This interview was at the Loubon family home at Cachipe Village, Moruga.
Video by Express Chief Photographer Dexter Philip.
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- Title
- Cedros Protest for Water
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The residents of Granville, Cedros, are asking WASA to explain why they have not received pipe borne water in two weeks. Residents blocked the roads to highlight their frustration on Saturday night, and continued this morning near the WASA Water Treatment Plant in the area. WASA is hosting a press conference at Hollis Reservoir, Valencia, at 10am today.
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- Title
- Budget failed to address crime, says Opposition Leader
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar deemed the 2024 budget to be "irrelevant" as it failed the address the number one issue of crime.
In delivering her response to the budget, Persad-Bissessar noted that there can be no prosperity with safety and security.
- Title
- Chief Justice calls for public sector reform
- Runtime
- 3:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Chief Justice Ivor Archie said now is the time for meaningful public sector reform as the current system with its structural and systemic deficiencies is “crushing us all”.
Speaking at the ceremonial opening of the 2023/2024 law term, Archie called on the Government to implement legislative changes that would give the Judiciary administrative independence for it to hire its own employees as opposed to having them assigned to the Judiciary by the central civil service.
