Eyewitness insists cops involved in taxi shooting
A witness is now adamant that police officers shot up a taxi Thursday, injuring a teen girl from the Alpha high school, and not gunmen as cops are claiming.
July 1, 2016
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Shot schoolgirl’s parents pray she’ll survive
Teachers from Duhaney Park Primary School surround Ruby McKoy, mother of the injured teen, while they pray outside Kingston Public Hospital yesterday. (Photos: Karl McLarty)
Tuning in to Reggae Day
MORE than 35 cities across the globe are currently engaged in celebrations of International Reggae Day (IRD). Event conceptualiser Andrea Davis said that all is well for today’s observation which will see a number of media outlets worldwide participating with special playlist programmes and interviews, as well as events in select locations.
Trinidad looking to Sandals to establish hotel in Tobago
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — The Trinidad and Tobago government yesterday said it had established a committee headed by a former finance minister Wendell Mottley to negotiate with the Sandals Resort International (SRI) to build two hotels in Tobago.
Gov’t says assets of NIS Fund now top $80b
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Shahine Robinson, says that the cumulative assets of the National Insurance Fund (NIF) at the end of the last financial year, 2015/16, totalled $80.6 billion.