Trinidad Express
Southex comes to Gulf City
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- Southex comes to Gulf City
- Runtime
- 4:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The 33rd edition of Southex expo was launched at Gulf City Mall in La Romaine on October 4.
Among the many visitors the expo attracted was the Minister of Rural Development and Local Government, Faris Al-Rawi.
One of the highlights of the 3-day event, themed “Marketplace”, is the vintage cars on show.
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- Pain for Harley’s granddad
- Runtime
- 0:26
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- One day after his 13-month-old Harley Persad died in a fire at their Soogrim Trace Extension, Endeavour, Chaguanas home, Deosaran Persad mustered the courage to walk into the burnt bedroom in which his precious granddaughter died.
Express senior reported visited the home and spoke with relatives.
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- Support for family of toddler who dies in a fire
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Chaguanas East MP Vandana Mohit and Chaguanas mayor Faaiq Mohammed, pledge their support for the family of 13-month-old Harley Persad after she perished in a fire at their Soogrim Trace, Endeavour, Chaguanas home on October 4.
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- Toddler perishes in Chaguanas fire
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Deosaran Persad speaks to the media about the incident that led to the death of his 13-month-old granddaughter Harley Persad at their Soogrim Trace Extension South, Endeavour, Chaguanas home on October 4.
The toddler perished after the room she was asleep in caught fire and relatives were unable to get to her.
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- Two killed in Point Fortin
- Runtime
- 2:20
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Yasseem Ali speaks with reporters at E Street Extension, Point Fortin, following the October 2 murder of his brother Allan Azard Ali.
Allan was one of two persons shot dead by a lone gunman, while a third victim underwent surgery for gunshot wounds.
Express photographer Trevor Watson captured this video.
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- Imbert: T&T's unemployment rate of 3.7% one of the lowest ever
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Finance Minister Colm Imbert said Trinidad and Tobago now has an unemployment rate of 3.7%, one of the lowest rates in the country's history.
He noted that labour force participation was 609,800 in June 2023, an additional 14,600 persons employed from the March 2023 employment figure of 595,200.
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- Trinidad and Tobago's minimum wage increases by $3
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Minimum wage earners in Trinidad and Tobago will receive an increase of $3 effective January 2024.
Finance Minister Colm Imbert made the declaration during his 2024 budget presentation on October 2, that the minimum wage will move from $17.50 per hour to $20.50 per hour.
He said the 17% increase will benefit some 190,000 workers.
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- Increase in minimum wage a welcomed move
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Deputy Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly, Faith B.Yisrael, said the THA has been engaged in increasing the minimum wage for workers in Tobago over the past 18 months, so the $3 dollar increase is simply a matter of the Government of Trinidad catching up with what has been happening in Tobago.
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- Govt failed to address crime in 2024 budget
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said the 2024 budget failed to address crime, the number one issue plaguing Trinidad and Tobago.
She said the announcement that 1,000 new recruits will enter the police service will not bring an immediate response as there is a process that has to be followed.
“So, don’t expect to see any new boots on the ground anytime soon," she stated.
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- Protesters call for Rowley, Hinds to step down
- Runtime
- 0:33
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Protesters call for Dr Keith Rowley and Fitzgerald Hinds to step down as prime minister and national Security Minister, respectively.
The protesters assembled opposite the Red House in Port of Spain on October 2, just before the 2024 budget was presented by Finance Minister Colm Imbert.
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- Chaguanas Mayor Faaiq Mohammed on WASA repair
- Runtime
- 0:40
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Frustration ran high among residents of parts of South and Central yesterday as water supplies were disrupted because of repairs to a month-long major leak in Chaguanas by the Water and Sewerage Authority.
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- Nobbee: I am still traumatised
- Runtime
- 3:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Gasparillo resident Maureen Nobbee recounts the event and trauma of a thunderstorm that ripped off the roof of her home on September 28.
Nobbee said she hasn't slept since the event and the roof of her Bonne Aventure home is still to be repaired.
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- Solemn sendoff for four siblings killed in Arima
- Runtime
- 3:27
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Faith Peterkin, ten, Shain Peterkin, 17, Tiffany Peterkin, 19, and Arianna Peterkin, 14, were given a heart-wrenching sendoff on September 29, eight days after they were brutally gun down whilst asleep.
The four were among nine persons shot at their La Retreat Extension, Arima home just after midnight on September 21.
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- Gasparillo tornado leaves some residents roofless
- Runtime
- 3:03
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Several residents of Bonne Aventure in Gasparillo, were left shaken after tornado-like winds blew off roofs of homes and uprooted several trees.
Councillor for the area Ravi Pooran Maharaj said about 11 homes were damaged at Rahaman Drive, Phekoo Avenue and Surprise Avenue.
No-one was injured.
- Title
- Pleasantville man gunned down
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Three months after his brother was killed, 33-year-old Keon Andrews of Pleasantville, was gunned down on September 28.
The San Fernando City Corporation employee was standing with a co-worker at the corner of Chaconia Avenue and Pleasantville Crescent, when he was approached by a gunman and shot multiple times.
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- City workers lay down tools, protest poor work conditions
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Workers at the San Fernando City Corporation stage an early morning protest on September 28, over poor working conditions.
Apart from not having had an increase in salary since 2013, workers say they have not been given uniforms, protective gear, and the proper tools to function efficiently, while working in an environment filled with pigeon droppings.
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- Grandfather wants probe into granddaughter's death
- Runtime
- 3:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Wendell Lazar, the grandfather of three-year-old Shazade Simon, who died at the San Fernando General Hospital five days after she sustained second degree burns to her abdomen, buttocks and hand, believes all is not well with her death and calls for an investigation.
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- Ex-oil rig workers protest non-payment of outstanding wages
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 22 former employees of Lennox Petroleum Services Ltd took to protesting outside the Port of Spain office of Rowan Drilling Trinidad Company Ltd, now Valaris, over the company's failure to pay them for services rendered for the years 2010-2017.
The workers were contracted to work on oil rigs for Rowan Drilling, but their contracts were ended prematurely due to a safety issue on a rig, and are yet to be paid for the work they had performed.
- Title
- no outrage
- Runtime
- 3:09
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal, expresses outrage over the silence of civil society over the brutal killing of three children and a teenage woman at their Arima home on September 21.
He questioned why the national community has not spoken against the issue and asked “where is the outrage” from stakeholders including civil groups, non-Governmental organisations, religious bodies, the business community, and others.
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- Business community under siege, facing extortion and death threats
- Runtime
- 2:35
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition MP Dr Roodal Moonilal has called on the business community to “make a strong statement” against extortion.
Moonilal said death threats are being issued by gang leaders, some of whom are incarcerated, if some business owners refuse to meet the demands for “millions” of dollars in "security" money.
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- Local Govt reform stalling corporation procurement ability
- Runtime
- 2:53
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- St Augustine MP Khadijah Ameen said at a press conference yesterday that corporations are being restricted in their ability to hire contractors and other services, which the Opposition blamed on a lack of the proper procurement structure.
- Title
- Cops: Be our eyes and ears
- Runtime
- 4:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Snr Supt Kerwyn Francis said to “consider the role you the public must play. Let’s work together, not for ourselves but for the generation yet to come”.
La Horquetta residents on Wednesday night, during a Northern Division police town meeting in the area.
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- T&T facing forex crisis
- Runtime
- 3:45
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) President General Ancel Roget warned credit card holders that the lack of forex exchange could cause their allottments to be further truncated.
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- Boy, 5, drowns at Water Park
- Runtime
- 4:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- As attempts were being made to resuscitate five-year-old Damari Jeffrey, who it is suspected died by drowning, his grandmother fell to her knees and prayed he would survive.
He did not.
This video of the child’s grandmother, Laura Jeremiah speaking was recorded by Express Chief Photographer Dexter Philip.
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- Title
- President urges youth awardees:Strive for excellence
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- “Stay the course, even when the going gets rough.”
So advised President Christine Kangaloo as she delivered the feature address on Thursday at the National Youth Awards 2023—Celebrating Excellence of Trinidad and Tobago’s Youth, at Hyatt Regency hotel, Wrightson Road, Port of Spain.
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- Title
- Cops seize $105m in high-grade ganja
- Runtime
- 2:52
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- High-grade Colombian marijuana, with an estimated street value of $105 million, was seized by police in South Trinidad on September 20.
A Kia 2700 vehicle, intercepted in La Romaine, was found to be carrying 28 large packets and over 930 small packets, totalling 704 kilogrammes of marijuana.
Following the bust Senior Superintendent of the Southern Police Division, Richard Smith, said he and his officers are committed to securing their division and defending it to the best of their ability.
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- War against Tobago contract workers
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- PNM Tobago Council leader Ancil Dennis believes the sending home of 60 contract staff at the Tobago Agribusiness Development Company is nothing short of a war being waged against contract workers in Tobago.
He said that development is the continuation of a war being waged by the THA Farley Augustine-led Tobago House of Assembly administration, to terrorise, victimise and damage Tobagonians.
Dennis warned that the People's National Movement will take all legal actions available to ensure the perpetrators of such actions face the brunt of the law.
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- Pollard: TKR keeping it cool
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Trinbago Knight Riders skipper Kieron Pollard reacts to his team progression to the final of the 2023 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League following a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over the high-flying Guyana Amazon Warriors in the first Qualifier on September 20.
Pollard said while confidence is high after the win, it is important that his men keep their emotions in check with the final still to come on September 24.
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- Residents complain: Months without a supply
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Residents at Lowkie Trace Extension in Penal spoke out on September 20 about the hardships they're facing over what they say has been months without a supply of water.
They said they have been unable to take proper baths, cook their meals or send their children to school due to their water situation
- Title
- Anger boils over at protest for water
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Residents of Union Village in Mayaro block the main thoroughfare with burning debris, as they protest the lack of a supply of potable water.
In Bristol, a steel drill pipe was welded to a metal bridge across the roadway to block the passage of vehicles.
The residents claim they haven't had water for the past four weeks.
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- Family loses home to fire
- Runtime
- 0:40
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Garvin Brathwaite surveys the scene in the aftermath of a fire that destroyed his family's four-bedroom home in Marabella, South Trinidad, on September 18.
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- Dad stages one-man protest at WASA
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Emmanuel Deonat stages a one-man protest outside the San Fernando office of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) on September 19.
Deonat, who resides at Woodland, said residents had not had water in their pipes for a month-and-a-half and they have not been supplemented with a truck-borne supply.
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- Look after your staff, says Industrial Court president
- Runtime
- 5:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Industrial Court president Deborah Thomas-Felix called on employers and trade unions to consider and implement a variety of safety measures to protect workers from a variety of climate-related dangers, including heat-related illnesses.
Delivering the feature address at the special sitting of the court for the opening of the 2023-2024 Industrial Court law term on September 19, Thomas-Felix said climate change and heat-related disasters affect the health and safety of employees and workers, as well as productivity.
- Title
- Recommit to SDGs, says UNGA president
- Runtime
- 3:27
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Dennis Francis calls for member countries to recommit to the agenda of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Speaking at the 78th General Debate of the UNGA, Francis said the 17 goals, which aim to create a more equitable and greener future for all people and the planet by 2030, are in jeopardy, with more than a billion people still living in poverty.
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- Unions angry as Massy sends home 9 female workers
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Chief education and research officer at the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union, Ozzie Warwick, called for the retrenchment notices issued to nine female employees of Massy Stores to be revoked.
He accused Massy of turning its back on the workers who worked through the pandemic to ensure profitability, and who the company boasted were key to its sustainability.
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- Marabella House burns
- Runtime
- 3:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 36-year-old Rajesh Manickchand’s Marabella home was burned to the ground on Thursday, leaving the coconut picker, his common-law wife, and their two-year-old daughter without a place to stay.
Video by Express Chief Photographer Dexter Philip
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- Title
- San Fernando Magistrate's Court on fire again
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The condemned San Fernando Magistrate’s Court building on Harris Street in San Fernando caught fire for the second time in one week on Saturday evening.
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- Title
- Atlantic LNG restructuring nearly a done deal
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the restructuring of Atlantic LNG is expected to be signed off on by the end of this year, following years of negotiations with its major stakeholders.
Earlier in January it was announced that Shell, bpTT, and the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago had reached an agreement on the commercial terms of the restructuring.
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- Rowley: Loss of Sandals a huge economic failure
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the collapse of the Sandals Resort in Tobago led to the country losing out on significant economic benefits.
In 2019 Sandals Resorts International announced its cancellation of a 750-room Sandals resort on the island after receiving negative publicity from certain quarters.
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- PM Rowley expresses optimism on stalled Dragon gas negotiations
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley believes Trinidad and Tobago has not wasted its time in negotiations with Venezuela over the Dragon Gas field.
Expressing optimism that the discussions are making progress and getting closer to a positive outcome, Rowley said: “I am confident that the efforts we are making are getting us closer and closer to the top of the hill.
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- Fire officers contain blaze at old Sando court building
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Fire officials were able to contain a fire at the dilapidated San Fernando Magistrates’ Court on September 14.
Demolition work began last year on the 100-year-old building, but has since stopped, leaving the compound overrun by grass and frequented by socially displaced people.
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- South Oropouche River Basin project receives $US10m funding
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Minister of Planning and Development Pennelope Beckles, launched a US$10 million project aimed at providing flood relief in the South Oropouche River Basin.
The project, titled “Multi-sectoral Adaptation Measures to Flood Relief in the South Oropouche River Basin”, and aimed at addressing the impact of climate change, was Trinidad and Tobago's first recipient of funding from the International Adaptation Fund.
- Title
- Legislate national instrument status of steelpan
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- President Christine Kangaloo calls for an urgent parliamentary intervention for pan being firmly and irrevocably declared the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Title
- Parliamentarians unfairly criticised, says President Kangaloo
- Runtime
- 3:45
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Parliamentarians receive unfair criticism from the public and are under appreciated for the service they give to the people of Trinidad and Tobago, says President Christine Kangaloo.
In her maiden address at the ceremonial opening of the Fourth Session of the 12th Parliament yesterday at the Red House, President Kangaloo also defended the work of the Parliament, saying “it works”, and it has done a lot to make the nation proud.
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- Kangaloo: Let's work together for a better Trinidad and Tobago
- Runtime
- 3:20
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In her maiden address at the opening of the Fourth Session of the 12th Parliament on September 11, President Christine Kangaloo called on parliamentarians to put aside their differences and work together towards “getting things right" in Trinidad and Tobago.
She listed fighting the scourge of crime, the steelpan, and legislation to benefit persons with disabilities as three of the five areas she would like to see properly addressed.
- Title
- Ratiram: give farmers FULs
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Farmers throughout the country should be granted Firearm User’s licenses (FULs) to protect their farms from praedial larceny according to Couva North Member of Parliament Ravi Ratiram, who yesterday called on Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher to issue licensed firearms to those affected.
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- Title
- Temple Vandalised
- Runtime
- 2:47
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Members of the Williamsville Hindu Temple view the destruction done to their temple. Secretary at the temple Vashti Sookhoo said the vandalism, which occurred on Saturday evening, was heart wrenching for the members. Express chief photographer Dexter Philip was at the temple on Sunday and captured this video.
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- Title
- Seecheran: What about Cardiac Lab
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Caroni East Member of Parliament Dr Rishad Seecheran has questioned the planned construction of a Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the San Fernando General Hospital, yesterday asking why the promised resource has yet to come to fruition.
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- Title
- Parents protest poor condition of road leading to children's school
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Tabaquite MP Anita Haynes speaks with protesting parents of students of the Caratal Sacred Heart RC Primary School.
The parents say the dilapidated condition of the roadway leading to the school has contributed to their children being unable to attend classes.
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- No shortage of food in Tobago
- Runtime
- 2:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Despite the breakdown of one of the inter-island ferries that transport goods to Tobago, Deputy Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly and Secretary of Health, Wellness and Social Protection, Dr Faith B, Yisrael said there's no shortage of food on the island.
Speaking at the media launch of World Food Day on September 7, B, Yisrael said people waste foods like fruits and vegetables to go after what are on the shelves (imported).
