The Carapo-based Jamaat-al-Muslimeen is controlling the mammoth share of the Ministry of Sport’s $113,502,273 Life Sport Programme, which the Ministry of Finance has found to be riddled with irregularities. The co-ordinator of the programme is Rajaee Ali, son of the north-west leader of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen, Imam Hassan Ali. R Ali told the Express that police had detained him for gang-related activities...
By Raffique Shah May 18, 2014 Maybe he does not realise it, but by his untimely utterances and seemingly panicked posturing, National Security Minister Gary Griffith is fuelling fear among the populace. Last Friday, according to news reports, rumours of an imminent coup triggered a virtual self-evacuation of Port of Spain, leading to the early […]...
A St Augustine fisherman was shot and robbed of $20,000 in Guayaguayare on Wednesday. Sylvester Aldacio, 58, of Freeman Road, was shot in the knee by thieves when he went to purchase fish. According to a police report, around 10.30 p.m. Aldacio was at Guayaguayare Fishing Port when two men, one with a shotgun and the other with a handgun, approached him....
The Finance and Enterprise Development Division of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) has completed a survey to gauge how people felt about the island’s budget proposals. Joel Jack, THA’s Finance and Enterprise Development Secretary, said this unique approach, undertaken for the first time this year, was designed to find out if people really understood what the budget was all about, the budget process,...
A bandit who shot himself during a robbery attempt on Friday is currently at Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope, under police guard....
Talk among commuters travelling to Edinburgh 500, Chaguanas is that the five and six o’clock buses didn’t come. With the last bus to the area set for a 7 p.m.-arrival time, commuters are concerned that 11 minutes have passed and there’s no bus in sight. Tensions run high as frustrated commuters loudly express their disgust with the long wait....
Police are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 60-year-old Ann Bain, wife of chairman of Flavorite Foods Ltd, Godfrey Bain....
A father of one was among two men who were gunned down on Friday night in separate shooting incidents in Diego Martin and Laventille, officially pushing the murder toll to 169....
A refinery is a dangerous workplace where disregard for safety or avoidable maintenance hazards can cause tragic and catastrophic events....
EVER had an interaction with the police that left a bitter taste in your mouth and, to make matters worse, you felt like there was no one you could talk to about it?...
Three local imams who have been detained by Venezuelan authorities for suspected terrorism are scheduled to return home today....
Dana Seetahal loved Bishop Anstey High School (BAHS) and her alma mater loved her right back....
The Sunday Express today begins an investigative series on the spread of Muslim organisations in Trinidad and Tobago perceived to be militant and perpetrators of crime. We begin with a visit to the Carapo mosque, an arm of the Mucurapo based Jamaat-al- Muslimeen which staged a bloody attempted coup in 1990....
Whether supporting Team Rowley or Team Penny, the membership of the People’s National Movement (PNM) has experienced a resurgence in this historic one-man-one-vote internal election which takes place today....
When the police came for him on the night of Friday May 9, Rajaee Ali was not surprised....
North Eastern Division police made a significant breakthrough on Thursday afternoon in their war against narcotics when they seized an estimated $22.5 million in cocaine and marijuana during an exercise along North Coast Road....
For the second time in three days, residents of Bagatelle, Diego Martin blocked access to Diego Martin Main Road with burning tyres and debris, as they protested the death of 35-year-old Nigel Long....
Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday that the People’s National Movement (PNM) would support no suggestion that policemen should get the $3.5 million reward offered by Government and Crime Stoppers for information on Dana Seetahal’s murder, or that policemen should receive large financial incentives for solving crime....
Members of the People’s National Movement (PNM) yesterday abstained from voting to approve President Anthony Carmona’s nomination to have Prof Ramesh Deosaran re-appointed as chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC)....
The recruitment procedure for the Commissioner of Police and Deputy Commissioner is unduly complicated, protracted and expensive, Leader of Government Business, Dr Roodal Moonilal, said yesterday....