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Murder accused Isan Contant
Police yesterday charged four-year-old Amarah Lallite’s stepfather, Isan Contant, with her murder.
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Tricia Villaruel, the mother of four-year-old Amarah Lallite, outside her Arouca home on Tuesday.
ABRAHAM DIAZ
Family Services social workers from the Social Development Ministry met yesterday with Tricia Villaruel—the mother of murdered four-year-old Amarah Lallite—to do a psycho-social assessment.
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Chaguanas West MP Dinesh Rambally speaks at a media conference at the Divali, Chaguanas, yesterday.
VASHTI SINGH
Twenty-four hours after filing his general election nomination papers on Thursday, Chaguanas West MP Dinesh Rambally yesterday held nothing back as he publicly called for the resignation of Persad-Bissessar as party leader and a restructuring of the UNC, raising several concerns about how decisions are made in the party and the lack of transparency with the party’s funds.
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Minister of Housing and Urban Development Camille Robinson-Regis lays papers in Parliament yesterday.
OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT
United National Congress leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she cannot and will not be controlled by any individual or group to promote any singular agenda at the expense of other sections of society - and that the public rants by a few only help “the oppressive PNM Government”.
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Kerron Charles, left, hugs his wife Shanya Raymond Adams after they went to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital’s medical records department to get information on their 18-day-old daughter Kae’ Jhene, who died, along with three other babies, in the Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) last week.
NICOLE DRAYTON
The parents of the seven babies who died of neonatal sepsis at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit between April 4 and 7, say they have lost faith and confidence in the country’s public healthcare system.
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Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh makes his way to the Red House to attend yesterday’s sitting of Parliament.
KERWIN PIERRE
There have been 179 COVID-19 cases and 31 deaths from October 2023 to February 2024, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh revealed in Parliament yesterday.
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Siparia Mayor Doodnath Mayrhoo poses with the Mrs Universe Trinidad and Tobago pageant national director and her team of delegates during a tour of Siparia yesterday.
KRISTIAN DE SILVA
They come from diverse backgrounds, all overcoming struggles of abuse, teenage pregnancy and crime, yet, delegates from the Mrs Universe Trinidad and Tobago pageant have united with a singular mission to help women overcome domestic violence.
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File: Members of the public line up outside the Election and Boundaries (EBC) office on Frederick Street, Port-of-Spain.
NICOLE DRAYTON
With general elections looming just a year ahead, the Elections and Boundaries Commission has unveiled significant recommendations, including the renaming of five constituencies and alterations to 16 more constituencies in Trinidad and Tobago.
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DPP Roger Gaspard, left, speaks with Senior Counsels Douglas Mendes, Deborah Peake and Russell Martineau outside the Hall of Justice, after a special joint sitting of the local Supreme Court and CCJ to commemorate the life of former chief justice and inaugural CCJ president Michael de la Bastide yesterday.
SHIRLEY BAHADUR
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, SC, has claimed that a polarising move, to replace the United Kingdom-based Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the country’s final appellate court, would only become a reality with public support.
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Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher
ABRAHAM DIAZ
With days left to go before the one-year contract of Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher comes to an end, the Police Service Commission (PolSC) has opened applications for the position.
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Deputy Speaker Esmond Forde speaks to a member of the Opposition during the sitting of Parliament yesterday.
OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT
Deputy House Speaker Esmond Forde yesterday summoned the Marshal of the Parliament to remove St Augustine MP Khadijah Ameen from the chamber, after he instructed her to leave and she questioned his order.
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Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Stuart Young during yesterday’s sitting of Parliament.
OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT
Minister of Energy Stuart Young said yesterday that there is an estimated 34,000 barrels of oil still on board the capsized barge which caused the oil spill off Tobago’s coast on February 7.
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