Trinidad Express
PM: As a nation, we need facts
- Title
- PM: As a nation, we need facts
- Runtime
- 1:47
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Describing the deaths of several babies at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Port of Spain General Hospital as “painful”, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley he wants to know what led to those deaths.
The PM made the comment at the of new Sangre Grande Hospital Campus on April 17, 2024.
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- EBC renames Pointe-a-Pierre constituency to Claxton Bay
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar accuses the Government of trying to erase the memories of hardship brought about by their closure of the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery by renaming the constituency of Pointe-a-Pierre to Claxton Bay.
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- Kamla: Don't test me, I am kind but not weak
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The United National Congress' (UNC) political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says while she respects the right of any person who chose to not participate in accordance with the foundation of the UNC, her kindness should never be taken as weakness.
Persad-Bissessar has been facing criticism from some members within the UNC, who have called for the party’s national executive election to be held when it is constitutionally due.
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- UNC calls for probe into babies' death
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Opposition is demanding an independent probe into the deaths of seven babies at the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH) to ensure there is no cover up. Speaking yesterday at a United National Congress (UNC) weekly Sunday news conference at the party’s Chaguanas headquarters, both Opposition Senator Wade Mark and Opposition MP Dr Lackram Bodoe stressed the need for transparency
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- Title
- Devastating Fire
- Runtime
- 2:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- THREE houses, six vehicles and a pet dog were lost in a fire in Freeport that police and fire officers were told was initiated by a resident burning trash on Sunday.
The devastation took place in the community of Maraj Avenue on Mission Road, located within a few kilometres of the Freeport Police Station.
Video by Express Chief Photographer Dexter Philip
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- Title
- Rambally: Kamla must go
- Runtime
- 4:15
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Kamla Persad-Bissessar's leadership of the United national Congress came in for intense criticism from Chaguanas West MP Dinesh Rambally.
Speaking at a news conference at the Divali Nagar site in Chaguanas on April 12, Rambally said the party's failure to win the 2015 and 2020 general elections boiled down to Persad-Bissessar's mistakes, and if she remains in leadership, the UNC will lose the next general election.
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- Justice Michael de la Bastide receives justice in his passing
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Former chief justice and first president of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Michael Anthony de la Bastide is escorted to the military cemetery in Long Circular.
De la Bastide, who passed away on March 30 at the age of 86, was given a military sendoff on April 11.
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- Paray: I welcome challengers who believe they can do better
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Upon filing his nomination papers at he United National Congress headquarters in Chaguanas on April 11, Mayaro MP Rushton Paray said if any prospective candidates believes they can do better than him, he welcomes that.
Paray recently received some backlash for calling for the party's internal elections be held in June when constitutionally due, before focusing on next year's general election.
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- An 8 minutes drive took police two hours to cover
- Runtime
- 2:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- When Aquie Persad was shot dead by three armed bandits on April 7, relatives say officers from the Cunupia Police Station took about two hours to respond after being notified of the robbery in progress.
On April 9, Express journalist Shivana Lal covered the same distance in eight minutes, leaving the Cunupia Police Station at 1.43pm and arriving at Persad's Welcome Road North home at 1.51pm.
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- UNC sets April 11 deadline for filing of nomination papers
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The United National Congress' (UNC) political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar announces an April 11 deadline for persons wishing to file nomination papers as prospective candidates for next year's general election.
She said office hours will be extended to 6pm on April 9 and 11 to accommodate the filing process.
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- Pensioners protest: blank merger of TSTT, Telco plans
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Pensioners who were formerly employed with the Telecommunication Service of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) and Telco, stages a peacefully protested outside RBC Trust in St Clair, on April 5, 2024.
The pensioners say TSTT is refusing to implement three agreed upgrades to the respective pension plans unless the pensioners sign a memorandum of of understanding for the merging of the two plans.
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- 32nd anniversary farewell for Neil Ballai
- Runtime
- 2:40
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Pundit Amar Seepersad officiates over the funeral service of Neil Ballai at his Bassie Street home at Spring Village, Valsayn on April 5.
Ballai, who died when he Kiss Baking truck he was driving was rear-ended by a black Ioniq motor car, was cremated on his 32nd wedding anniversary.
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- US accuses Trinidad and Tobago security agency of human rights violation
- Runtime
- 6:12
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Amery Browne speak about Trinidad and Tobago being accused of human rights violation following the beating death of two murder accused while in police custody during the tenure of former Police Commissioner Gary Griffith.
- Title
- Supermarket robbery leaves sisters traumatised
- Runtime
- 2:41
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Dianne Samuel, speaks about the trauma her daughters Angel Joseph, 9, and Treasure Joseph, 6, experienced on April 4, after they got caught up in the middle of a robbery at a supermarket in California.
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- Second victim in arson attack dies at hospital
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Rocky Daniel, a neighbour of 25-year-old Tyrone Stefon Foster, recounts the details of the fire that killed Foster at his Housing Development Corporation home at the Exchange Housing Development in Couva on April 3.
Foster's uncle, Lester Foster, 52, who sustained burns to about 90% of his body, would later succumb to his injuries at the San Fernando General Hospital.
Eyewitnesses say the home was firebombed by arsonists using a Molotov cocktail.
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- NP has no policy for electric vehicles charging ports
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- National Petroleum chairman Sahid Hosein said the organisation does not have a policy for the installation of charging ports for+ electric vehicles at its service stations.
He noted that while one was installed at its service station at Preysal, that was done under the remit of the National Gas Company (NGC).
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- Couva man perishes in fire
- Runtime
- 0:36
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A Venezuelan national bawls in anguish after his friend Tyrone Stefon Foster, 25, burned to death during a fire at a housing unit on Anand Yankaran Extension, Exchange Lots, Couva on April 3, 2024.
Foster's body was still on fire when he was taken out of the Housing Development Corporation housing community.
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- PM in Ireland; Finance Minister to act
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley travels to Ireland for a 10-day vacation stint with his wife Sharon.
Rowely, who departed Trinidad and Tobago on April 2, is due to return to office on April 14. In his absence, Finance Minister Colm Imbert will act as prime minister.
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- T&TEC workers lay down tools, stage protest action
- Runtime
- 2:54
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Employees of the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission staged a protest outside their Cipero Street, San Fernando workplace on March 28, 2024.
According to the Oilfield Workers' Trade union's branch president Christopher Peters, workers were frustrated and felt disadvantaged by changes being implemented at the company, including an alleged internal restructuring that would see some of its members of staff being transferred to other branches.
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- Police making inroads in tracking gang movement
- Runtime
- 3:02
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- ASP Ishmael Pitt, who oversees the operations of gang units along the East-West Corridor, acknowledged that gangs were a serious concern to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
he noted that they have began tracking gangs based on policing divisions and the sharing of information, which has delivered some degree of success.
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- Prime Minister defends Police Commissioner against court criticism
- Runtime
- 2:48
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley came to the defence of Police Commissioner Erla Christopher after she was criticised by Justice Frank Seepersad for what he termed adopting a “well I have plenty work to do” stance in defence of a seven-year delay in granting a Firearm User’s Licence to an applicant.
The prime minister said that was not the position taken by the Commissioner and that the affidavit filed in the matter was not done by her but a member of the police service legal team.
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- Imbert: Now we will know who owns what
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Finance Minister Colm Imbert said he has come to the conclusion that all the opposition to the property tax is as a result of some people wanting to hide their unexplained wealth.
Stating that a person cannot hide a house, he added that now the government will know who owns what.
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- PM Rowley still has confidence in Paria's board of directors
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley expresses confidence in the board of directors at Paria Fuel Trading Company despite calls for the board members step down or be dismissed.
The calls came over Paria's handling of a February 2022 incident at its Pointe-a-Pierre facility in which four divers lost their lives.
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- Griffith has a right to contest St Joseph constituency
- Runtime
- 0:52
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Deputy political leader of the United National Congress (UNC) Dr Roodal Moonilal says despite whatever amalgamation may exist between the UNC and the National Transformation Alliance (NAT), the NTA's political leader Gary Griffith is “within his right” to contest the St Joseph constituency at next year's general election.
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- National Security rife with vacancies
- Runtime
- 3:38
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds reveals that there are hundreds of vacancies in the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, Trinidad and Tobago Regiment and the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard.
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- Hinds: No charges for public decency violations
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds said no persons were charged with violations of the law for public decency in January and February 2024.
However, he expects to see more people charged with the offences of indecency, lewdness and insulting acts in the future due to more training and sensitisation in this area by officers of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
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- Rowley: Petrotrin was leading the country into bankruptcy
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Keith Rowley said had the government not pulled the plug on the Petrotrin refinery in 2018, the country would have lost an additional US$5 billion and would have been knocking at the doors of the IMF..
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- Mark: UNC on strong Ground
- Runtime
- 2:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- United National Congress (UNC) Senator Wade Mark said that the political party stands on strong and resilient democratic principles and anyone who is suggesting otherwise is misguided.
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- Title
- PM attends Spiritual Baptist Celebrations
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Sister Beverly Cardinez offered prayers and songs at the PNM Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day Celebrations held at Balisier House on Saturday. Looking on is Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Energy Minister Stuart Young. Video ISHMAEL SALANDY.
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- Title
- Palm Sunday in Sando
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Archbishop Fr Jason Gordon joined parishioners as they took part in the annual Palm Sunday procession before Holy Mass at the Lady of Perpetual Help, Harris Promenade, San Fernando, on Sunday morning
Video By Express Chief Photographer Dexter Philip
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- Title
- Paray demands the UNC hold internal elections
- Runtime
- 3:27
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Two-term United National Congress' Member of Parliament for Mayaro, Rushton Paray, makes a public demand for the party’s political leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, to call internal elections when due or face losing the general election again.
The party's internal election are due in June 2024.
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- Cheers as students complete exam
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Eager parents armed with roses, balloons, snacks and an assortment of flowers await their children who were writing the 2024 Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam at the St. Gabriel’s Girls’ RC school in San Fernando.
Across at the San Fernando Boys RC, the students were greeted with hugs and kisses after completing the exam.
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- Artistes beware...violent musical content can get you arrested
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Assistant Commissioner of Police Vena Butler warns artistes that they may be held accountable for musical content that promotes violence.
She noted that recently people had been arrested after the lyrics in their songs were examined.
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- Gang violence, drugs account for 56% of murders in T&T in 2024
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Head of the Homicide Bureau of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, Snr Supt Rishi Sing reveals that 56% of the 124 confirmed murders for 2024 thus far, are gang/drug related.
Singh was addressing the media during a news conference at the Police Administration Building in Port of Spain on March 21.
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- Fire leaves South Oropouche family homeless
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A South Oropouche family of five was left homeless after a fire destroyed their two-storey wood and steel home at Steve Solomon Ghany Drive on March 20.
Smoke from smoldering debris was still visible when Express photographer Trevor Watson visited the scene.
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- Slain dad, two sons laid to rest
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- An emotional Lauren George has to choked back the tears as she delivers the eulogies for her father, Buddy George, and her brothers, Marcus Buddy and Jeremiah George.
The three, along with their friend Dion Keyon Mendoza, were shot dead by gunmen at an agricultural camp in Mayaro on March 11.
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- Minister not happy with public service productivity
- Runtime
- 2:18
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Public Administration Minister Allyson West said while measures are put in place to improve the level of productivity in the public service, she's not totally satisfied with the current level of productivity.
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- Oil spill contained, ruptured pipeline repaired
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Finance Minister Colm Imbert gives the assurance that barring unforeseen circumstances, no more oil will be released to the environment from the location of the Vistabella River,
He was responding to a question from Opposition Senator Wade Mark in the Senate on March 19.
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- THE WAR ON THE LAW-ABIDING
- Runtime
- 3:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A couple recalled to the Express how criminals invaded their home after a prayer service on Sunday evening. The armed robbers threatened to kill the family and the pundit, who is also a SRP, if they did not hand over cash and jewellery. Chief photographer Dexter Philip visited the family’s home in Claxton Bay and captured this footage.
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- Title
- Moonilal: We didn't collect any property tax
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition MP Dr Roodal Moonilal boasted that under both the Basdeo Panday and Kamla Persad-Bissessar governments, citizens of Trinidad and Tobago paid no property tax.
He said it was their intention to repeal the tax but after encountering difficulties, they waived the tax during the period 2010-2015.
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- Rowley: Citizens harbouring criminal elements
- Runtime
- 3:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said part of the problem the State have in dealing effectively with the criminal elements is that no one wants to provide information to the police.
He noted that it is virtually impossible for persons to be handling illegal assault weapons and no one knows, not even family members.
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- Swift action contains oil spill in Vistabella River
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Swift action by Heritage Petroleum Company Limited led to an oil spill that originated in Tarouba being contained in the Vistabella River.
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- Princes Town House burnt
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The home of a Malgretoute Village man, who was chopped to death while he was bathing at his home on Wednesday, was burnt to the ground, yesterday.
Video by Express Chief Photographer Dexter Philip
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- Title
- Nakhid calls for police patrols
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Senator David Nakhid is calling on the Government to increase patrols in high-risk areas. His call, which came during the Opposition’s
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- Title
- Tancoo on Property Tax
- Runtime
- 2:36
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition MP Davendranath Tancoo has warned that citizens will have to grapple with “inheritance tax” as those who are unable to pay will get their taxes temporarily waived but it will be passed on to whoever inherits the property
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- Title
- Hundreds line up for alms
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said she was surprised to see hundreds of people begging for alms outside the El Dorado Mandian when she attended Maha Shivratri celebrations on March 8, 2024.
- Title
- Protester roughed up by police requires medical aid
- Runtime
- 0:29
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The treatment meted out to Cunupia resident Otto Junior Harrington by police officers during a protest over water is now the subject of a complaint lodged with the Police Complaint Authority.
Harrington, who was dragged and roughed up by two officers, had to receive medical attention for injuries he sustained as a result.
- Title
- Which Govt minister has underworld ties?
- Runtime
- 1:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar calls on the Government to disclose if the Security Services Agency had two ministers under surveillance, and if any Government ministers had links to the underworld.
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- Women rally to the call on International Women's Day
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Network of Non Governmental Organisations staged a rally through the streets of Port of Spain on March 8, in commemoration of International Women's Day 2024.
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- Rowley calls Opposition an 'irresponsible, mad bunch'
- Runtime
- 2:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley condemns the move by the Opposition to get him to answer questions in the Parliament on the Strategic Services Agency matter.
He calls the Opposition an “irresponsible, mad bunch”, and he was not an irresponsible leader to speak about the matter that is under investigation.
