Trinidad and Tobago Guardian

NPTA, TTUTA take issue with PM’s call

The Na­tion­al Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA), T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) and oth­er stake­hold­ers have pushed bac…

Scientists map T&T’s deep sea region

Methane bub­bling from the seabed. Vast beds of mus­sels thriv­ing in dark­ness. The re­mains of a man­ta ray pro­vid­ing a feast for deep-sea c…

TOBAGO SCHOOLBOY HELD FOR KILLING

The ar­rest of a 15-year-old To­ba­go school­boy on a pos­si­ble cap­i­tal charge over the week­end has left Ed­u­ca­tion Sec­re­tary Or­lan­do…

Case against the captain of ill-fated vessel further adjourned

Three peo­ple, in­clud­ing the cap­tain of the ill-fat­ed MV Bari­ma that sank on Ju­ly 18, killing more than 100 peo­ple, ap­peared in court on…

From COVID boredom to fruit, flavour and fun on a stick

They say bore­dom is the moth­er of in­ven­tion, and that there is al­ways room for dessert—per­haps the two say­ings that were the im­pe­tus be…

Xtra Foods helps spruce up Mon Repos RC for new academic year

A team of Xtra Foods Su­per­mar­kets Ltd. em­ploy­ees, to­geth­er with past and present teach­ers, par­ents and stu­dents, re­cent­ly joined for…

Misreading the messages

The de­ci­sion by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to is­sue two in­de­pen­dence mes­sages has caused many heads to ex­plode over do­i…

Can the Privy Council be wrong? Yes, says land surveyor Fitzherbert Reyes

The Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil (JCPC, the British court which is T&T’s fi­nal court of ap­peal) was wrong in its judg­ment tha…

The selfie test

Diplo­ma­cy with Venezuela is back on the ta­ble, and that is nei­ther sur­pris­ing nor in­her­ent­ly trou­bling. Trinidad and To­ba­go can­not…

Fireworks blamed as blaze guts electronics shop, destroys two homes

A long-stand­ing Port-of-Spain elec­tron­ics re­pair busi­ness was gut­ted and two homes de­stroyed ear­ly yes­ter­day in a fire at Pic­cadil­ly…

Celebrating 60 years of Notting Hill Carnival

I spent T&T’s In­de­pen­dence Day do­ing my two-step chip on Ma­hogany Car­ni­val Arts’ truck that me­an­dered its way through crowd­ed streets…

GANGSTER’S PDO REVOKED

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­voked the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) is­sued against dance­hall artiste Jose…

Janoura’s Independence Day Fashion Show spotlights employees’ creativity, patriotism

Cel­e­brat­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s In­de­pen­dence can take many forms, from wav­ing the na­tion­al flag to dress­ing in the coun­try’s colo…

Prison officers intercept ganja thrown over PoS prison wall

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice (TTPrS) has in­ter­cept­ed a pack­age con­tain­ing mar­i­jua­na and oth­er pro­hib­it­ed items that wa…

T&T orchid breeder Curtis Lutchman wins 17 awards in Florida

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s rep­u­ta­tion as a home for tal­ent­ed or­chid breed­ers con­tin­ues to grow, with lo­cal breed­er Cur­tis Lutch­man and…

18 years later, former soldier cleared of rape, kidnapping charges

A for­mer sol­dier and na­tion­al foot­baller has been ac­quit­ted of kid­nap­ping, false­ly im­pris­on­ing and rap­ing his ex-girl­friend near­…

Firewood Flavours: Bringing the taste of yesterday back to the table

The aro­ma of wood smoke drifts along the SS Erin Road at Dun­can Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, draw­ing the at­ten­tion of mo­torists and passers-b…

Don’t Fear Failure

Andy Po­li­ah, cred­it­ed with bring­ing his own Mex­i­can-Tri­ni-flavoured cui­sine to San Fer­nan­do, says pas­sion and de­ter­mi­na­tion are…