Trinidad Express
Trade unions call for increase in minimum wage
- Title
- Trade unions call for increase in minimum wage
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Joint Trade Union Movement president, Ancel Roget, said the trade union movement's call for an increase in the minimum wage from $17.50 per hour to $30 is a justified one.
He noted that the increase will see people at the lowest level of the economic ladder earn just $4,800 monthly, which will still be negatively impacted by inflation.
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- Jack Warner seeking escape route from extradition
- Runtime
- 2:46
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said Jack Warner's resurrection with the United National Congress is simply a matter of him aligning himself with people who, if they ends up in government, will provide escape route for him to not be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges.
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- Kamla: ‘I’m a dangerous woman’
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar declared herself a “dangerous woman” who is standing against criminals.
She said Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and his Cabinet ministers have protection, but are against citizens obtaining firearms to protect themselves.
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- Part of Pointe-a-Pierre Road slips away
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A segment of the busy Pointe-a-Pierre Road in San Fernando had to be cordoned off after heavy rainfall on August 8, led to soil erosion and portion of the road collapsing.
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- Judge orders release of 64 migrants at Heliport
- Runtime
- 2:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- High Court Justice Ricky Rahim ordered the release of 64 Venezuelan migrants being detained at the Heliport in Chaguaramas.
He also ordered that they not be deported pending determination of their application for judicial review.
Human rights activist Yesenia Gonzalez spoke with the Express photographer Jermaine Cruickshank on the ruling.
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- Moonilal: I'm not filing any "Form B"
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition MP Dr Roodal Moonilal sai8d if the Integrity Commission has excused Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley from making declaring his purchase of a townhouse on "Form B" of the Integrity In Public Life filing, then in the future he will not be filing any “Form B” with the Integrity Commission.
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- Businesswoman executed in San Fernando
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Businesswoman Veronica Allison De Leon is shot and killed near her San Fernando home on August 5.
Shortly after leaving home, her Range Rover SUV was blocked by a white Nissan AD Wagon, and the front seat passenger alighted, ran towards her vehicle and shot her.
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- PM: I’m not in breach
- Runtime
- 5:03
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said he was not in breach of the Integrity in Public Life Act since he did declare the purchase of his townhouse at Shirvan Development in Tobago to the Integrity Commission.
Rowley, who produced a copy of his 2019 Integrity in Public Life Act declaration, said it was a deliberate attempt by Opposition MP Saddam Hosein and the rest of the United National Congress to sully his character.
- Title
- Wade mark: release GHL audited statements
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- United National Congress (UNC) Senator Wade Mark has called for the public release of audited financial statements from Guardian Holdings Ltd (GHL) and Guardian Life of the Caribbean- yesterday questioning the safety of thousands of local life and general insurance policy holders.
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- Title
- Rodney Charles Speaks on Crime
- Runtime
- 1:08
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Trinidad and Tobago has become a ‘war-zone,’ according to the United National Congress (UNC) members, who yesterday called for an end to the “virtual horror movie,” of crime within the country.
Speaking at a weekly news conference on Sunday, Member of Parliament for Naparima Rodney Charles said that he stood with the controversial statements made by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar to ‘light up’ home invaders at a meeting in Signature Hall, Chaguanas last week.
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- Nurses protest over unsafe patient ratio
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prepare for more protest action.
This is the position that will be taken by the Trinidad and Tobago Registered Nurses Association if the Government fail to rectify the “unsafe” ratio of nurses to patients.
During a protest through the streets of Port of Spain on August 4, association president Idi Stuart said while internationally the ratio is four or five patients to one nurse, their members are faced with a ratio of 20 patients to one nurse.
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- Opposition Leader embraces 'gangsta' lyrics to deal with criminals
- Runtime
- 4:07
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar came under fire from Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds for her embracing of gangsta lyrics.
She used lyrics from a Trinibad song calling on licensed gun owners to “load up the ‘matic and “cock it and knock it on them” when faced with criminal intruders, during a recent political meeting.
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- Persad-Bissessar: Property tax rolls out in Sando
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said based on a letter dated July 27, from the Valuations Division, the Government intends to roll out the implementation of property tax in the city of San Fernando.
Persad-Bissessar, who resides in Phillipine, said the letter shows that assessments for property tax have begun in the southern communities of Esperance, Phillipine and Caanan Village.
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- Fallen tree at US Embassy site in Trinidad takes out two vehicles
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Two men escaped serious injury when a tree on the site for the new United States Embassy in Port of Spain crashed unto Saddle Road in Maraval on August 3.
The tree slammed into the top of a panel van driven by Joe Critchlow, crushing the van
A three-tonne delivery truck had one of its doors ripped off when the tree slammed into the back of the truck. Luckily, the driver Joe Goolab was not hurt.
An electricity pole was also felled after the tree came down on it.
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- Violent protest erupts over police shooting of Couva man
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A violent protest erupted along Railway Road, Couva, yesterday when a 20-year-old Josiah Vesprey was shot and killed during what police said was a shoot-out.
Police claimed they exited their vehicle when they observed a group of men. The men began running in different directions and one of the men shot at the officers who returned fire.
Vesprey was fatally shot during the encounter .
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- Gary: Use more than minimum force
- Runtime
- 3:06
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Former police commissioner Gary Griffith defended his approval of firearm user licence to some 2,000 applicants during his tenure.
Griffith, now political leader of the National Transformation Alliance, also condemned the call by a senior police officer to use minimum force in dealing with would-be attackers.
- Title
- National Quarries workers want CEO removed
- Runtime
- 0:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Calling for the removal of chief executive officer, Dr Vindel Kerr, employees of National Quarries Company Ltd staged a protest at the company"s Arouca head office on August 2.
The employees cited mismanagement of the company’s operations and assets as the reason for the position adopted.
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- ‘Self-defence must be within remit of the law’
- Runtime
- 1:07
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Deputy Commissioner of Police Curt Simon urged citizens to get trained in the use of firearms, and advised that self-defence must be within the remit of the law.
His comment came on the backdrop of a woman, who is not the holder firearm user’s licence, using her husband's licenced firearm to kill a man during an alleged home invasion.
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- Kamla calls for equality and unity
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar delivered a message of unity, perseverance, and equality in observance of Emancipation Day in Trinidad and Tobago.
She said: “As we gather to commemorate Emancipation Day, let us remember that freedom is not merely a date on the calendar but a continual struggle. It is a journey that demands our unwavering commitment to justice, equality, and eradicating all forms of oppression.”
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- EFCL trying to bankrupt small, medium and micro businesses
- Runtime
- 3:42
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition MP Davendranath Tancoo has knocked the government over an attempt by Education Facilities Company Ltd to have the court give leave for the company to be wound up or declared legally closed and its assets disposed of.
The petition to the court was turned down In a July 27 judgment by Justice Carol Gobin.
Tancoo said it was a deliberate attempt by this State-owned company to pick the pockets of hundreds of micro, small and medium-sized businesses of their rightfully earned incomes totalling $890 million.
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- Monster Showers wreak havoc in Sando
- Runtime
- 3:18
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In what residents described as a strange bout of hammering rainfall, dozens of homes were flooded on Saturday evening, many for the first time.
This, after a monster belt of thunderstorms began sweeping inland from the Gulf of Paria at around 2pm.
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- Title
- Al Rawi visits the flood affected
- Runtime
- 6:03
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Faris Al Rawi toured flood affected areas yesterday. He had earlier deployed 200 Community-based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) workers to assist families in clean up operations.
Al Rawi said the heavy rainfall descended suddenly and caused massive flash flooding through the city.
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- Title
- UNC slams Govt over ‘gas crisis’
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- THE temporary closure of at least seven plants on the Point Lisas Industrial Estate as a result of a shortage in the supply of natural gas has placed Trinidad and Tobago in an embarrassing position, says Pointe-a-Pierre MP David Lee.
And Government must not shift the blame, as it had allowed the country’s gas supply to become so decimated, that there was no extra capacity to keep Point Lisas going when one of its upstreamers ran into problems, he said.
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- Title
- PM Rowley: La Brea Dry Docks project on hold
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Dr Keith Rowley says the Government is currently engaged in US$300 million arbitration talks with a Chinese contractor for work done on the aluminum smelter plant, scrapped by the United National Congress (UNC).
And that, he said, was the reason for the delay in the La Brea Dry Docks project.
Speaking at “Conversations with the Prime Minister” at the Palo Seco Government Primary School on Friday night, Rowley said the Government was going through the environmental assessments required to ensure that a similar incident did not occur.
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- Title
- Rowley obsessed with Farley, says Kamla
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is “obsessed” over Tobago House of Assembly Chief Secretary Farley Augustine, and also has a “broken heart” with respect to former government ministers Jack Warner and Gary Griffith joining with her to contest the August 14 local government election.
- Title
- PM calls for more understanding from labour movement
- Runtime
- 4:27
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says he was hoping for a more understanding response from the labour movement regarding the country’s current economic situation, and their call for an increase in the minimum wage from $17.50 to $30.
He said such an increase may result in retrenchment and inflation.
- Title
- Penny goes after Anil
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Planning and Development Minister Pennelope Beckles is warning Opposition Senator Anil Roberts to stay off her Facebook page.
She said Roberts has accused her of not being able to spell, but she prefer to make a mistake in spelling than to be accused of being in some motel room with Matt; being accused of smoking marijuana and trying out the rolling of marijuana.
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- Clico enquiry a drain on State funds
- Runtime
- 2:42
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the State continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the commission of enquiry into the collapse of Clico, with no end in sight.
He said he's considering going to the Parliament and saying enough is enough, in a bid to request that the Government stop spending money as it relates to the Clico enquiry.
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- PM seeks apology, costs from whistleblower
- Runtime
- 3:55
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has initiated legal action against alleged whistleblower Akil Abdullah for his “baseless, false and malicious” and “slanderous” statements made against him.
Abdullah has alleged that Rowley was part of a conspiracy to discredit Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary Farley Augustine and the THA administration.
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- “Kamla, choose your men wisely.”
- Runtime
- 3:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Minister in the Ministry of Education Lisa Morris-Julian has advised Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar to chose her men wisely.
This after Persad-Bissessar announced that her United National Congress party has joined forces with former UNC ministers Gary Griffith and Jack Warner to contest the August 14 local government election.
Morris-Julian labelled the move a “threesome”.
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- Don’t lionise criminals as ‘heroes’
- Runtime
- 4:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Criticizing the return of former government minister Jack Warner to the political landscape, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley warned against the “lionisation” of criminals as “heroes”.
Rowley said the former FIFA vice president is now known as an international crook, and has been charged with serious criminal conduct of money laundering, racketeering, and fraud in the US, but is being hailed by some citizens as a saviour.
Warner has joined up with the United National Congress to contest the August 14 local government election.
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- Rowley: Recognise our successes and strive for more
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said his vision for Trinidad and Tobago is a country where the population makes the most of what is available to it while paying attention to the nation's children.
Rowley's statement was in response to a question by presenter Marlan Hopkinson, when he appeared on the July 27 edition of the TV6’s Morning Edition programme.
- Title
- Eversley: State failed Afeisha
- Runtime
- 3:20
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Coup survivor like Wendell Eversley slammed the government for failing to support Afeisha Caballero, whose mother Lorraine Caballero, a parliamentary clerk, was shot and killed by terrorists during the July 27, 1990 insurrection.
Afeisha, who was age two at the time, now lives in a church and struggles to take care of her two sons.
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- Residents cut off as road collapses
- Runtime
- 1:07
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A segment of the Brazil Arena Road in Brazil Village, East Trinidad, collapsed on July 25, while rehabilitation work was being carried out on an area that had caved in a few years prior.
Residents, who have been cut off by the incident, said the work should have been completed in the dry season and not the rainy season is in full flow.
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- Opposition Leader calls for the seizure of PM's phone
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar calls for the electronic devices of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Police Commission Erla Harewood-Christopher to be seized, after they were both implicated by a whistleblower of having a telephone conversation related to an alleged conspiracy against Tobago's Chief Secretary Farley Augustine.
- Title
- Senior citizen dies in Point Fortin fire
- Runtime
- 3:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Michael Cornum, 75, perished in the kitchen of his apartment unit at the Point Fortin Senior Citizens Association Ltd facility, after a fire broke out on July 25.
David Cornwall, 70, said he awoke to see Cornum trying to put the fire out with a towel, but by the time he contacted the matron and they returned, Cornum's apartment was fully ablaze.
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- PNM using State funds to buy votes, says Kamla
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called on police to investigate alleged corrupt election campaigning practices by the People's National Movement (PNM).
In an audio clip played during a United National Congress political meeting on July 24, the voice of a man, alleged to be a PNM candidate, is heard telling a woman to bring her national identification and utility bill to a PNM campaign officer to have her name including on a list for a job.
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- Farley: Rowley needs to re-read THA Act
- Runtime
- 4:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary Farley Augustine says Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley “does not know what he’s talking about” by suggesting Augustine overstepped the boundaries of the THA Act at the July 19 special sitting of the Assembly Legislature.
Calling on Rowley to re-read the THA Act, Augustine said according to the Standing Orders, what he did was proper and in order.
- Title
- Unions call for lower fuel prices
- Runtime
- 2:05
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) has called on the Government to reduce the price of fuel at the pumps.
In a letter delivered to Finance Minister Colm Imbert on July 24, JTUM's leader Ancel Roget said oil price has fallen consistently over the past year, but vehicle owners are yet to receive a reduction in prices in relation to the fall in oil price, as citizens of other countries have.
- Title
- Emotional send-off for Allanlane Ramkissoon
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Family and friends say their final farewell to Allanlane Ramkissoon who passed away on June 18.
The 35-year-old pipefitter of Massy Energy Engineered Solutions Ltd, suffered severe injuries in an accident at the NiQuan Pointe-a-Pierre plant on June 15, and succumbed to his injuries three days later at a hospital in Colombia.
- Title
- Opposition calls for independent probe into THA scandal
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition MP Dinesh Rambally says an independent probe should be launched into the allegations made by whistleblower Akil Abdullah, of a plot to oust Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary Farley Augustine, since Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher is subject to the scandal.
- Title
- Cedros fishermen anchored on shore by oil spill
- Runtime
- 2:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- An oil spill that made its way to the beaches along the southwest peninsula resulted in fishermen at Fullerton Beach in Cedros not being able to ply their trade, resulting in significant losses.
Former local government councillor Shankar Teelucksingh said he was disappointed that Heritage Petroleum officials had not yet spoken to the affected fishermen
- Title
- Griffith to Rowley: Let’s do a polygraph test together
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Former Commissioner of Police, now National Transformation Alliance leader Gary Griffith, has challenged Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to undergo polygraph testing together.
Outlining a number of question that both would be tested on, Griffith hinted that Rowley will fail the test.
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- Rowley: Nothing ‘clandestine’ with daily security reports
- Runtime
- 3:36
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said there was nothing clandestine about his July 17, meeting with the police service divisional heads on, since as National Security Council chairman he receives a daily report from the Special Branch and he has communication with the police in order to effectively perform his duties.
- Title
- Farley apologises for "stink mouth" comment
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly Farley Augustine was made to apologise to Progressive Democratic Patriots leader Watson Duke for telling him to “shut your stink mouth” at the July 19 special sitting of the Assembly.
- Title
- Farley engaged in witness tampering
- Runtime
- 5:23
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said a July 19 statement by the Tobago House of Assembly Chief Secretary Farley Augustine amounts to witness tampering, and he will not leave it there, but will allow the court to rule on the matter.
- Title
- PNM knocks UNC's gated community policy to address crime
- Runtime
- 3:21
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Junior Legal Affairs Minister Renuka Sagramsingh-Sooklal says the United National Congress has raised the issue of crime and criminality on its campaign for local government election, but has failed to provide solutions.
She noted that the only thing put forward is that of building more gated communities, but information on who's going to pay for them
- Title
- Ignore UNC ‘idlers’, says PM Rowley
- Runtime
- 6:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In the Siparia constituency of Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley described her and her UNC ministers and supporters as “idlers” who only object to initiatives geared towards moving the country forward.
- Title
- No Opposition support for amendments to procurement legislation
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the UNC members will be in Parliament on July 19, but they have no intention of supporting the proposed amendments to the Public Procurement and Public Disposal of Property (Amendment and Validation) bill, as intended by the Government.
- Title
- Moody's rating is 'junk status, says Opposition Leader
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Moody's Ba2 rating of Trinidad and Tobago is nothing to boast about because as it is a “junk status”, says Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
She noted that despite the positive outlook given by the rating agency, it also signalled in its report that the Government will be increasing electricity and water rates, which would heap more hardships on citizens.
