Trinidad Express
Luciano "sweeps over souls" at redemption 8
- Title
- Luciano "sweeps over souls" at redemption 8
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Jamaican reggae artiste Luciano performs at the Redemption 8 concert, at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad, on May 6.
Video: Kimberly De Souza
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- Title
- "Dad I will never stop looking for you"
- Runtime
- 2:44
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- THE nation may have forgotten about missing part-time taxi driver and sanitation worker Anil Maraj, who disappeared on March 17. But for his children, the heartache remains real every waking moment.
This is a clip from the Hunters Search and Rescue Team of a vigil held for Maraj on April 14
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- Title
- Rudder's Final Show
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Machel Montano graced the stage with ailing calypso icon David Rudder during his RUDDER 7.0 farewell concert at Sound Forge in Port of Spain on Saturday night.
Rudder delivered a four-hour performance at his 70th-birthday celebration, aptly titled the 7.0 concert at the Sound Forge, Christopher Samuel Drive, Mucurapo. The show was sold out within days of its announcement.
This video was captured by Express Photojournalist Jermaine Cruickshank
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- Title
- THA Assemblyman Trevor James on Studley Park Licence
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- ENERGY Minister Stuart Young has expressed concern over the recent statements made by Tobago House of Assembly (THA), Assemblyman Trevor James, regarding the outstanding Mining Licence and Blasting Permit for the Studley Park Quarry operations in Tobago.
On Thursday, at the THA’s media briefing, James the Secretary of Infrastructure said he was convinced there is a wilful attempt by the Government to frustrate efforts by the THA to acquire a blasting permit and insurance licence for the park.
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- Title
- Senator calls for 'urgent' review of the Unit Trust Corporation Act
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Senator Hazel Thompson-Ahye called for an urgent review of the Unit Trust Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago Act, so as to allow the relatives and/or guardians of mentally ill and deceased unitholders to have access to their investments.
Junior Finance Minister Brian Manning said there is a process under the Mental Health Act by which family members are permitted to access the Unit Trust funds of people who have Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia.
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- Title
- Residents live in fear as bodies continue to drop at Trainline
- Runtime
- 0:10
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Residents of the Trainline community in St Augustine blocked the roadway with burning tyres and other debris on May 5, protesting over the shootings and murders which have virtually taken over the community.
Six persons, including one woman, have been killed for the year thus far.
Some residents, out of fear, have implemented a self-imposed curfew, claiming they are not getting any help from the relevant authorities.
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- Title
- We want our school fenced
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- For the second time in one week, parents protested outside the Belmont Secondary School.
Their action stemmed from an incident on April 28, where gunmen stormed onto the school compound and accosted the school safety officer.
PTA president Shurlanda Malcolm called on Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly to have the school properly secured.
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- Title
- PM Rowley: ‘I have nothing to answer for’
- Runtime
- 3:58
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said he has nothing to answer for in the matter regarding the arrest and extradition from Barbados of firearm dealer Brent Thomas.
The PM said it was a police matter, now turned a court matter, and he and his Cabinet had no involvement or prior knowledge of the situation.
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- Title
- Kamla serves pre-action letter on PM Rowley
- Runtime
- 0:37
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said his lawyers are in possession of the pre-action protocol letter from Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
The Opposition Leader has accused the Prime Minister of drawing her into race talk.
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- Title
- VAT bonds to offset VAT refunds
- Runtime
- 3:40
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Finance Minister Colm Imbert revealed that Cabinet has agreed to the issuance of VAT bonds in the aggregate sum of $3 billion.
This bonds will be issued between June and August, and will assist in the settlement of $7.8 billion in Value Added Tax refunds owed to businesses.
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- Title
- Chaos ensues as student brandishes a machete at school
- Runtime
- 0:22
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- A male student is videotaped brandishing a cutlass (machete) at Tranquillity Government Secondary School in Port of Spain on May 3.
A teacher intervenes and relieves the student of the weapon.
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- Title
- Point Fortin highway nears completion
- Runtime
- 0:26
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Point Fortin MP Kennedy Richards expressed his satisfaction with the progress of Point Fortin to San Fernando segment of the Solomon Hochoy Highway Extension.
During a tour of the project on May 3, he noted that despite several delays, the project is close to completion.
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- Title
- Penal family haunted by slaying of three male relatives
- Runtime
- 2:37
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Linda Bajnath, 64, speaks about the trauma her family has had to endure, including fleeing their Penal home, after her son Anand Kumar, 42, grandson Kishore Kumar, 18, and son-in-law Rolley Hosein, were taken outside of the family home at gunpoint and executed on April 25.
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- Title
- Port of Spain building goes up in flames
- Runtime
- 0:25
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- An early morning on May 2, led to the destruction of a wooden building near Victoria Square, Port of Spain.
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- Title
- Man shot dean near school, classes dismissed
- Runtime
- 0:29
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Ronnie “Bull” Pierre is shot dead at the back of the Munroe Road Hindu Primary School by five gunmen, while classes are in session.
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- Title
- Trade unions: Government is destroying the country
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The trade union movement staged a solidarity march in recognition of International Workers Day (May Day) 2023.
The movement said it is not in the interest of the government to seek the rights of the working class, and the government has destroyed the fabric of the country.
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- Title
- Hinds: We have bomb threat under control
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds gave the assurance that the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service as well as the Fire Service, had everything under control after a vast number of school a received bomb threat via email on April 28.
The schools in question were evacuated with several of them sending their students home.
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- Title
- Bomb threats disrupt over 200 schools in Trinidad
- Runtime
- 3:44
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said more than 200 schools were affected confirmed by bomb threats sent via email on April 28.
140 schools were forced to dismiss classes early due to the threat.
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- Title
- Bomb scare at Penal Secondary School
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Penal Secondary School was one of the 14 schools in South Trinidad that had to be evacuated following a series of bomb threats aimed at schools on April 28.
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- Title
- Female pensioner found dead at home
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Odessa Constance, 76, is found in a bedroom of her house on Matiste Road in Hindustan.
There was blood on her face and on her bed.
Police were told she was last seen alive on her porch at around 8 p.m. on April 27.
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- Title
- Repatriation - a "sensitive and difficult” issue
- Runtime
- 3:16
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the issue of repatriating those citizens who have been stranded in Syria and Iran is not a as simplistic one.
He noted that it would be ridiculous to put a timeline on the exercise because the matter is “sensitive and difficult”.
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- Title
- PM Rowley not seeking to politicise fire deaths
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- "Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said he would not join Opposition MP Rudy Indarsingh in seeking to politicise the tragic deaths of a mother and her eight-year-old daughter in a fire
Told by Indarsingh that their deaths was due to a non-functional appliance at the Siparia Fire Station, the PM said such a statement was an irresponsible one to make.
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- Title
- Covid-19 cases decline in Trinidad and Tobago
- Runtime
- 2:48
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said there is a reduction in the number of Covid-19 cases in Trinidad and Tobago.
responding to a question in Parliament on April 26, Deyalsingh said the record would show a reduction in both the seven-day rolling average and the hospital occupancy rate.
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- Title
- President to decide on procurement regulator
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the appointment of a procurement regulator lies with the President.
Thus, his government will not be lobbying for Moonilal Lalchan’s reappointment for a second term.
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- Title
- Negotiations continue for Dragon gas production
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The government of Trinidad and Tobago continues to be in active negotiations with the government of Venezuela on the development of the Dragon Gas Field.
This according to Energy Minister Stuart Young, during April 26 parliamentary sitting.
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- Title
- Watermelon vendor gunned down in Caroni
- Runtime
- 0:38
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Vendor Dillon Joseph and a male friend are shot in a tent at Caroni while selling watermelons.
Both were fire upon by a gunman who exited a vehicle.
Joseph died at the scene.
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- Title
- Mark: Who valued the MHIL shares?
- Runtime
- 4:46
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Senator Wade Mark called on the Government to clear the air on the sale of CLICO’s 36.63 per cent shares in Methanol Holdings International Ltd (MHIL) to the Proman Group.
He said the MHIL plant located in Oman is valued at US$1.5 billion, and he was informed the shares were sold for US$377 million when it should have been over $600 million.
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- Title
- Rowley: I will not meet with Gary
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said as chairman of the National Security Council of Trinidad and Tobago, he has very good reasons not to meet with former police commissioner Gary Griffith, under any circumstances.
Rowley was responding to a question posed by Opposition MP Rodney Charles in Parliament on April 26, 2023.
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- Title
- Crime symposium cost $1.5m, not $15m
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said the recent two-day regional crime symposium cost $15 million, and not $15m as stated by Opposition MP Rodney Charles at a press conference.
He accused Charles of deliberately lying to the public.
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- Title
- Truck driver rescues three trapped in flood waters in Porsche Cayenne
- Runtime
- 2:11
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Two United States citizens and a Trinidadian relative are rescued after their Porsche Cayenne is swept away by flood waters at Sangre Chiquito.
Brian Pray, his wife Shelly, and his cousin, had to climb through the sun roof of the vehicle before being rescued by the owner of a truck.
- Title
- Murderous Night in Penal
- Runtime
- 2:55
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Linda Bajnath speaks to reporters at her home at Charlo village, Penal, where her son, grandson and son-in-law were brutally murdered by men disguised as officers of the law early on Tuesday morning. Bajnath’s brother-in-law was also killed at the same location on March 26.
Express chief photographer Dexter Philip is at the house of grieving family and captured this footage.
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- Title
- East Trinidad experiences unusual rainfall and flooding
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Sangre Chiquito was one of several communities on the East West Corridor that experienced severe flooding on April 25.
Cumuto/Manzanilla MP Dr Rai Ragbir said the are was rendered impassable.
The Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service attributed the rainfall to equatorial moisture from a low level trough.
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- Title
- Penal Murder
- Runtime
- 2:33
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Asha Sajurlal consoles her sister-in-law Manisha Herralal, at their home at Wilson Road, Clarke Road Penal, on Tuesday.
Herralal's husband Adesh Herralal, was shot dead on Monday night by someone he knew.
Express chief photographer Dexter Philip visited the family’s home and captured this footage.
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- Title
- Fire officers willing, but lacking resources
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Businessman Anil Sundar laments the inadequate resources of the Trinidad and Tobago Fire Service after appliances that responded to a fire at his Rochard Road home in Penal, failed to contain the blaze.
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- Title
- Kamla: Don't blame the USA for our porous borders
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the Government continues to play the blame game for Trinidad and Tobago's escalating crime.
Bissessar stated that they have shifted the blame from her and her party to the United States of America, for the influx of illegal firearms.
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- Title
- Do you stand to benefit, Terrence?
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Opposition MP Saddam Hosein calls on Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh to disclose if him, or members of his family, stands to benefit from the acquisition of lands by the Government for the construction of the Cumuto to Manzanilla highway.
Hosein said Cabinet records would show that Deyalsingh recused himself when the Cabinet held deliberations on the land acquisition for the project.
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- Title
- South Quay under water
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Ten minutes of rainfall led to street flooding in Port of Spain on April 24.
South Quay was one of the areas that was under a few feet of water.
- Title
- Bravo salutes 'champion' Jesse
- Runtime
- 0:29
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Former West Indies cricket icon Dwayne Bravo delivers a 'champion' message to 12-year-old Jesse Stewart after his journey with cerebral palsy was highlighted via the Express.
Jesse noted that Bravo was his favourite sporting personality.
- Title
- Rowley: Not me and Tobago's business
- Runtime
- 0:30
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who stated he does not interferes in Tobago's business, which is administered by the THA, made a call vis a press release for the current THA executive to go back to the polls after some 13 of them registered a new party.
- Title
- Mayaro Protests for Water
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- FOR one month, residents of Union Village in Mayaro have been without running water. But this is not the first time, they say, as households have been facing ongoing water challenges for almost six years.
The residents staged a fiery protest yesterday, blocking the Naparima/Mayaro Road with burning tyres and debris. The protest, which began at 4 a.m., shut down the community, bringing traffic to a halt for almost five hours.
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- Title
- Seepersad visits prison
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Justice Frank Seepersad arrived yesterday at the Royal Gaol in Port of Spain to view the conditions of the death row section of the prison. Express photojournalist Jermaine Cruickshank was present and captured this footage.
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- Title
- Farmers wants consultation and compensation, not confrontation
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Farmers in Felicity and Petersfield called on State agencies to engage them in consultation as opposed to confrontation after crops and bearing fruit trees were bulldozed by the Land Settlement Agency (LSA) to make way for housing lots.
They also called for them to be compensated for their losses.
- Title
- A case of arson?
- Runtime
- 1:07
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Police believe arson is the cause of a fire which destroyed a mini-mart and damaged a car at Tramline Street, Princes Town, on April 20, 2023.
- Title
- Camacho: The role of sports frowned upon
- Runtime
- 3:11
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Chairman of the Sports Committee of Trinidad and Tobago, Douglas Camacho, expressed disappointment that there was no discussion on the role of sports in reducing crime at April 17-18 regional crime symposium in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
He said sports is a critical factor in human development.
- Title
- Business Chamber supports crime initiatives
- Runtime
- 5:20
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- President of the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Charles Pashley, called for a closer relationship between police and the business community.
He noted a poll showed that 42 per cent of the Chamber’s members said they felt as though business crime was not important to the police.
- Title
- Spirituality needs to be taught to children
- Runtime
- 4:01
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- First vice-president of the National Parent Teacher Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Zena Ramatal, calls for a spiritual awareness to be instilled in children, especially young boys.
She shared the view during the education segment on Day 2 of the Regional Symposium: Violence as a Public Health Issue—The Caricom Challenge, in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
- Title
- T&TEC improves power capacity
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission's engineering controller Nigel Bobb, demonstrates to Public Utilities Minister Marvin Gonzales, how to turn on the newly commissioned 220 KV double circuit tower line at the Union Substation at Union Industrial Estate, La Brea.
///Video by chief photographer Dexter Philip
- Title
- Criminal justice system needs a robust overhaul
- Runtime
- 4:53
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Caribbean Court of Justice member, Justice Jacob Wit, has called for a “firm and robust overhaul” of and a “merciless look” at the criminal justice system. Citing the case of Trinidad and Tobago with a 20 per cent detection rate, but an acquittal rate of 70 per cent of all crimes detected, Wit said this is not a way to run a criminal justice system.
- Title
- Rotate magistrates across region, says Mottley
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley yesterday made a call for the integration of judicial officers, specifically the exchange and rotation of judges and magistrates across Caricom countries.
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- Title
- Gonsalves questions bail for murder: Do judges live on Mars?
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves yesterday criticised members of the judiciary who grant bail to murder accused, asking whether they lived on Mars.
Contributing to the Prime Ministers’ roundtable discussion at yesterday’s Regional Symposium: Violence as a Public Health Issue
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