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The Morvant woman who featured in a Facebook post beating her son with a shovel should not be jailed but given counselling. This is according to one of her neighbours who spoke with the media outside her Lower Morvant Extension home yesterday.

A lawsuit challenging President Anthony Carmona’s appointment of two members of the Police Service Commission on the basis that they were unqualified for the job has been thrown out by the High Court.

Trinidadian Wayne Frederick was voted the 17th president of Howard University, in Washington, DC, United States, on Monday by the university’s board of trustees after being unanimously recommended by the Presidential Search Committee (PSC).

Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh says he hopes the issue raised by Arima Mayor George Hadeed about the use of the former premises of the Arima New Government Primary School will be resolved with discussion.

Thirty women from the Dominican Republic who were arrested at a Central nightclub were taken to the Immigration Division to be processed late Monday night.

Carbon dioxide levels at the ground floor of the passport office in Port-of-Spain were recorded at above international standards and have been blamed for irritation to the eyes, skin and flu-like symptoms.

Independent Senator Helen Drayton yesterday called National Security Minister Gary Griffith “disrespectful” for his response to a letter to a newspaper from retired Major Gen Ralph Brown, in which Brown said the patrols by soldiers in Laventille...

Opposition and Independent Senators have expressed concern over a revelation by Justice Minister Emmanuel George that Chief Justice (CJ) Ivor Archie had an input in the Prison Amendment Bill before it was brought to the Senate for debate yesterday.