Trinidad Express
Bodoe: Politics with health sector report
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- Bodoe: Politics with health sector report
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Fyzabad MP Dr Lackram Bodoe has accused the Government of playing politics with the Welch Report into the public health sector.
His accusation came during his piloting of a private motion on the Government's failure to deliver on its healthcare mandate.
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- UNC withheld support for health sector improvement
- Runtime
- 4:00
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said the Opposition United National Congress (UNC) had an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the improvement of Trinidad and Tobago's health sector, but refused to participate when the Welch Report was sent to a Joint Select Committee.
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- New guidelines for housing developments
- Runtime
- 4:16
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Planning Minister Pennelope Beckles said the Town and Country Planning Division is currently preparing specific guidelines to regulate developments in flood-prone areas and on hillsides.
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- Fire leaves Gasparillo family homeless
- Runtime
- 3:16
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Mitchum Rawlins pleads for assistance for materials to rebuild his family's Harmony Hall, Gasparillo home after it was completely destroyed by fire, leaving him and eight family members homeless.
- Title
- Judge me by my impartiality
- Runtime
- 6:18
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- President-elect Christine Kangaloo vows to serve with impartiality, as she has always done, despite her past political background.
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- Candles for Justice
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Though awaiting the outcome of the Commission of Enquiry into the Paria Fuel diving tragedy that led to the death of four divers, family members of the dead men continued their call for justice at the monthly candlelight vigil in Plaisance Park, Pointe-a-Pierre.
- Title
- Vehicle inspection rush
- Runtime
- 3:51
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- A rush by motorists to have their vehicles inspected for their roadworthiness has led to drivers queuing up before daybreak at the Licensing department in San Fernando.
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- Taxi driver charged for cricket bat beating
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- A private-hire (PH) taxi driver is granted $80,000 after being charged for beating a teenage girl with a cricket bat in downtown Port of Spain.
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- Mark: Think outside the box
- Runtime
- 4:15
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Senator Wade Mark called on the Government to 'think outside the box' and pay the fuel subsidy directly to Paria Fuel Trading Company Ltd, instead of putting pressure on National Petroleum (NP) and Unipet service station owners, who face a cash flow crisis.
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- Owners of lands acquired are being paid
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Owners of lands acquired by the Government to facilitate the construction of the new airport terminal and associated works at the ANR Robinson International Airport in Tobago, have been paid $238m of the estimated $300m, thus far.
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- Government to build $42M library in La Horquetta
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Chairman of the National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS) Neil Parsanal encouraged young black males to use libraries as an alternative to a life of violence while speaking at the sod turning ceremony for the La Horquetta Library in Phase IV, La Horquetta yesterday.
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- Ehan Dass strikes a winning note with Angel Harps
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Tassa drummer boy Ehan Dass, 10, was one of the stars on show in T&TEC Tropical Angel Harps Youth Steel Orchestra's victory in the 21-and-under category at the 2023 National Junior Panorama Championships, at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain.
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- Cabinet x-ray scanners for transit sheds and private warehouses
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Finance Minister Colm Imbert said stiffer oversight of transit sheds and private warehouses are coming, in a bid to reduce the entry of illegal weapons via these entities.
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- Boy, 16, shot dead just for exiting his home
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The grandmother and mother of 16-year-old Darshan Ramnauth is inconsolable after he was chased and shot dead by four masked gunmen in St Augustine.
Upon hearing gunshots Ramnuath came out of his Warren Street home to check on his grandmother, who lives next door, when he was spotted by the gunmen who turned their attention on him.
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- 75,000 people without water after WASA pipeline ruptured
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The Express visited the leaking 42" North Oropouche transmission pipeline located off the West Bound lane of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, in the vicinity of the Santa Rosa Racetrack on Monday to witness works being done by WASA to restore pipe borne water to 75,000 customers in East Trinidad
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- Are fete promoters being extorted by police?
- Runtime
- 5:20
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- President of the Trinidad and Tobago Promoters’ Association, Jerome “Rome” Precilla said fete promoters are being held to ransom by the police, who assign an increasing number of officer to events though the number of patrons have been decreasing.
He call for legislation to be tabled with regard to the assigning of police officers at entertainment events.
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- Police kill three bandits in Mayaro
- Runtime
- 2:55
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Quick action by the police led to three armed men being fatally shot in a walkway at the side of a beach-front property on Church Road, Mayaro, shortly after they robbed a KFC delivery driver of a meal, $80, and a cellphone.
A fourth suspect is still at large.
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- Renewable energy challenged by low cost of electricity
- Runtime
- 2:42
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Trinidad and Tobago' transition to renewable energy sources is being challenged by prevailing low cost of electricity. to the transition to renewable energy sources.
So said Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley as he addressed the 2023 Trinidad and Tobago Energy Conference at the Hyatt Regency.
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- OWTU, THA partner on eco-tourism resort in Charlotteville
- Runtime
- 3:28
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- THE Tobago House of Assembly (THA) has joined forces with the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) to develop an environmentally friendly eco-tourism resort in Charlotteville.
The resort is to be developed at Cambleton Estate which is owned by the OWTU.
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- Highway Project nearing completion
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Work on the San Fernando to Point Fortin segment of the Solomon Hochoy Highway Extension continues apace as Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan said it is expected to be opened to the public in 2023.
- Title
- Defying the odds
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- This is where Sanjay Rambharose, a 26-year-old mentally challenged man, now lives after spending almost two years on the streets.
Rambharose witnessed the tragic death of his mother, who was killed in an accident along the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway in 2014. His relatives tried caring for him but Rambharose walked away two years ago and could not be found. Last Christmas, his uncle Dave Mahabir found him sitting on the shoulder of the highway near the scene of his mother’s death. Mahabir rebuilt the house and now cares for Rambharose.
- Title
- President Kangaloo
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Christine Carla Kangaloo convincingly won the election to become President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, securing 66 per cent of the vote.
Kangaloo, who will be sworn in as President on March 19 to serve a term of five years, was the People’s National Movement (PNM) nominee. She received 48 votes against 22 votes for the UNC nominee Israel Rajah Khan, SC.
- Title
- No to Kangaloo
- Runtime
- 2:07
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Scores of protesters gathered outside the Red House in Port of Spain on January 20, 2023, to voice their disapproval of the Government's nomination of Christine Kangaloo to be the next President of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Title
- We Just Want A Better Life
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Kristal Manswell speaks on the demolition of 10 structures constructed in La Horquetta to be used as vending stalls by unemployed residents.
The structures were deemed 'illegal' by the Housing Development Corporation.
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- ‘Void’ in pipeline triggered Delta-P
- Runtime
- 7:32
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Attorney Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj said while only 360 barrels of oil were needed to be pumped out of the subsea pipeline to make it safe for the LMCS divers to begin working on the project, Paria allowed over 1,252 barrels of oil to be extracted, creating a void in the pipeline, which triggered the Delta-P situation.
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- Remembering Salina
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Seeta Mohammed, the mother of Salina Mohammed who was shot dead at Green Acres, San Fernando, a year ago, recalls the love her daughter treated her with.
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- Carib chief honoured at First Peoples exhibition
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Santa Rosa First Peoples chief Ricardo Bharath-Hernandez, is honoured at launch of the the “Caribbean Ties-Connected People Then and Now” exhibition at the Carib Centre in Arima.
Among the guests were Planning Minister Pennelope Beckles-Robinson, Netherlands ambassador Raphael Varga Van Kibed Ne Makfatva, professor of archaeology from Leiden University (Netherlands), Corrine Hofman, associate professor in Caribbean Archaeology Dr Menno Hoogland, and professor in Caribbean Archaeology Dr Arie Boomert.
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- Regulations Industries Commission (RIC) public consultation takes a turn for the worse
- Runtime
- 8:35
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The Regulated Industries Commission (RIC) held its first public consultation on the proposed increased electricity rates for 2023 at Centre of Excellence on Tuesday.
However the event quickly turned into a tense shouting match as the RIC received a resounding opposition from dissatisfied TTEC customers.
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- Mark: Why the delay?
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Wade Mark queries the delay in the appointment of Jowelle De Souza as a temporary senator to replace David Nakhid, who is out of the country.
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- De Freitas elevated to Senate President
- Runtime
- 1:43
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Nigel De Freitas is elevated to the position of President of the Senate on January 18, 2023.
De Freitas, whose most recent portfolio was that of minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, also served as Senate Vice-President in the past.
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- Sookhai replaces Kangaloo in the Senate
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Former president of the Chaguanas Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Chaguanas businessman Richie Sookhai is appointed a Government Senator.
He replaced Christine Kangaloo, who is the Government's nominee for President of Trinidad and Tobago.
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- Highway project begins
- Runtime
- 1:53
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The Ministry of Works and Transport has begun work to repair a landslip that threatens to undermine the southbound lane of the Solomon Hochoy Highway, in the vicinity of the Couva Children’s Hospital.
Minister Rohan Sinanan said the problem was caused by an altered course taken by a river that flows under the highway.
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- Two die in police sting in Barataria
- Runtime
- 2:48
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Video shows different viewpoints of a police shooting which took place Barataria midday yesterday.
Three men pretending to have a car for sale tried robbing their “buyers”, who turned out to be police officers.
This resulted in two men being killed by police.
- Title
- Rowley: Selective questioning by media
- Runtime
- 3:24
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said while freedom of the press is alive and well in Trinidad and Tobago, the media can be selective in who they pose pertinent questions to.
- Title
- "Stranger Things" for 2023
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Bunji Garlin performs "Across The Stage Again" on the Stranger Things Riddim created by Romell "Smiddy" Smith.
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- Shomari couldn't swim
- Runtime
- 3:10
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Rhianna Giuseppi, the guardian of 21-year-old Shomari Fraser, recounts how the drowned at sea while liming with friends in a boat that was docked near Farallon Rock in the Gulf of Paria, San Fernando.
- Title
- Panosonic 'MashUp'
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Members of the Panosonic Connection Steel Orchestra performs an arrangement of Dexter "Blaxx“ Stewart "Mashup” during the judging of the National Junior Panorama Preliminaries at Macon Street, Victoria Village, San Fernando.
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- Stalin’s grave vandalised
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Eight days after his funeral, the grave of calypso legend Dr Leroy “Black Stalin” Calliste, was vandalised by a man believed to be socially displaced.
The individual scattered the material and flowers that adorned the grave before lying atop the grave with his arms outspread at the Paradise Cemetery in San Fernando.
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- Mayor mixes with the mas
- Runtime
- 2:22
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Port Of Spain mayor Joel Martinez was in the midst of the revelry during the official launch of Carnival in the city, at Woodford Square, Port Of Spain, on January 13, 2023.
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- Lynch: I felt welcomed and appreciated
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Jerome Lynch, KC, chairman to the Commission of Enquiry into the death of four divers at Paria Fuel, lauded the people of Trinidad and Tobago for their hospitality and appreciation.
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- Ramesh: No Answer Yet On Criminal Prosecution
- Runtime
- 2:51
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Commission of Enquiry lead counsel Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, SC, says his legal team was researching the law related to criminal prosecution against persons involved in an incident at Paria Fuel Trading Company last February, that lead to the deaths of four LMCS Limited divers.
The findings, he said, would be revealed to the Commission within seven days in a confidential document
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- Paria had a 'Duty of Care' under common law
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Legal counsel to the Commission of Enquiry, Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj SC, said Paria had a “common law non-delible duty of care” under its permit to work system to ensure that there was care whether or not an independent contractor was retained.
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- Homes Cracking, HDC Lacking
- Runtime
- 4:42
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Five residents of Ridgeview Phase One said numerous efforts to get the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) to address the issue of the sinking and cracking, due to shifting soil, have proven futile.
One resident is seeking relocation after spending more than $100,000 on his home. He is also seeking compensation.
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- OWTU opposes TTEC’s plan to increase its rates
- Runtime
- 5:08
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) President General Ancel Roget yesterday hand-delivered a letter to the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC) chairman Romney Thomas condemning the commission’s recommendation to increase electricity rates for residents customers this year.
- Title
- DISAPPOINTED!
- Runtime
- 5:01
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Commission of Enquiry chairman Jerome Lynch KC expressed his disappointment that Paria Fuel was waiting on his report, due in April, before taking steps to ensure there was no recurrence of the event that led to the death of four divers on February 25, 2022.
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- More Covid-19 hospitalisation in Trinidad and Tobago
- Runtime
- 6:50
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Principal Medical Officer Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards warns of an increase in the number of people being hospitalised with the Covid-19 virus.
She said as at January 11, 2023, there were 71 people receiving treatment for Covid-19 at hospital, a dramatic increase from November’s average of 20 people in hospital on any given day.
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- "Systematic Failure" at Paria
- Runtime
- 2:33
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- In her closing statement at the Commission of Enquiry into the death of four divers employed by contracting firm LMCS, attorney Kamini Persaud-Maraj, who represented the firm, said there exists a 'systematic failure' at Paria Fuel Trading Company.
She noted that this needs to be corrected as it presents a danger to not only LMCS, but all other contractors who continue to provide high risk services to Paria.
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- Cocoyea swimming pool reopens
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- San Fernando East Member of Parliament Brian Manning described the reopening of the Cocoyea community swimming pool on January 11, 2023, as an extremely proud day
- Title
- Prakash: You Did Nothing
- Runtime
- 4:38
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Attorney Prakash Ramadhar, who delivered his closing statement to the Commission of Enquiry into the death of four divers, said at the end of the day the executives of Paria Fuel Trading Company did nothing to save the lives of the men.
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- LMCS and Paria both to blame
- Runtime
- 4:13
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Seamen and Waterfront Workers’ Trade Union (SWWTU) attorney Nyree Alfonso said both Paria Fuel Trading Company Ltd and LMCS Ltd failed the four divers who lost their lives after being entombed inside a 30-inch subsea pipeline on February 25, 2022.
