Daily Archives: Feb 16, 2018

A day after a local poll showed the opposition United Progressive Party emerging winner at the next general election, another poll has come out saying the opposite.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb 16, CMC – Two of the people detained as part of the investigations into an alleged terrorist attack to destabilise the country during the Carnival celebrations that ended here this week, have been remanded into custody after they appeared in court on gun-related charges, their attorney said Friday.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Feb 16, CMC – Premier David Burt Friday said his ruling Progressive Labour Party (PLP) government would move away from “austerity” to “stimulus” as he unveiled a US$2.18 billion budget to Parliament that opened the door to increased foreign investment in this British Overseas Territory.

MUNICH (Reuters) - The defense ministers of Germany and France pledged to redouble their military and foreign policy cooperation efforts on Friday, inviting other European countries to participate if they felt ready to do so. 

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey proposed on Friday staging a joint deployment with U.S. troops in Syria, as the two NATO allies sought to rescue a rapidly deteriorating strategic relationship that Washington acknowledged had reached a “crisis point”.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Russian Internet agency and more than a dozen Russians interfered in the 2016 U.S. election campaign in a multi-pronged effort to support Donald Trump and disparage rival Hillary Clinton, the U.S. Special Counsel said in an indictment on Friday.

The police and the family of 14-year-old Brittany Skerritt of Briggins are asking for help in finding her.

Recently, High Court Master Fidela Corbin-Lincoln handed down a ruling that has paved the way for Prime Minister Gaston Browne to sue Damani Tabor for defamation.  The spokesperson for the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) will now have to defend himself in the High Court against the claim that he has defamed the prime minister as it relates to comments made about the prime minister’s wife’s charity.  It is going to be an interesting one.

Early Childhood Development (ECD) practitioners in the Caribbean now have a practical guide that will help them to design programmes for all early learners in the region.

Joanne Massiah, member of parliament, has said that the police have an obligation to be fully transparent and forthcoming with the circumstances that led to an accused serial killer escaping from police custody on Monday.