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Judge: Driving demerit points law poorly drafted Justice Frank Seepersad. - A HIGH COURT judge has said certain sections of the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act, which can ban someone from driving, were poorly drafted. In particular, the sections Justice Frank Seepersad identified deal with disqualifying a driver for a year if he or she racks up seven or more demerit points in a year from when they got their permit and their avenue to appeal the decision of the Transport Commissioner. In a ...

Court clerk Andrea Bharatt is expected to be laid to rest on Friday. Newsday understands the body will be taken to the familys Arima home for a ceremony at 9 am and then to the Arima Magistrates Court for a visit before being taken to the Faith Assemby Church, Arouca for 11 am. Bharatt will be cremated at Belgroves Funeral Home, Tacarigua. The post-mortem report from the first autopsy on her body was inconclusive, but a second private autopsy done at Boodoos Funeral Home in Cunupia on Tuesday r...

Stefon Du Pont brings high-end menswear to TT Stefon Du Pont, founder of The Gentlemans Place TT. - From a young age Stefon Du Pont has had a love of fashion. But over the years he was continually disappointed in the local selection of menswear. As a result, the 28-year-old created his own menswear company – Andre Bernard’s The Gentleman’s Place TT – which sells international, formal and casual, high-end menswear from Turkey, Italy, and the US. Andre Bernard is his pseudonym for the f...

Justice Frank Seepersad. - THE judge hearing the legal challenge of the new traffic laws’ demerit point system has stayed the order of the Transport Commissioner to suspend the permit of an Arouca man for six months after he allegedly racked up ten points. Justice Frank Seepersad on Tuesday agreed to stay the decision to suspend Zachary De Silva’s permit after the man’s attorneys asked that he consider doing so since it has been almost three months since the permit was suspended and it c...

Jab jab, devils keep Carnival rituals alive Sunday 17 January 2021 Jab A Mien leader Keon Eccles, right, encourages Jamali Marchan 14, to spit a fire ball at The Last Old Time Barrack Yard, Edna Hill Road, Arouca. PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB - Even though there is no Carnival this year, traditional mas players continue to prepare and maintain their rituals. For them, the festival is more than putting on a show for two days. It is an artform that has filtered into their daily lives. Sunday Newsday ca...

Two held, shotgun, ammunition, drugs seized in Arouca File photo. Two men are in police custody after police found them with a quantity of ammunition and drugs at a house in Arouca on Tuesday afternoon. Police said members of the Northern Division Task Force Area Central and the Intelligence Unit went to a house on Yearwood Street, Thomas Trace, at around 4.50 pm and found 12 rounds of ammunition and 683 grams of marijuana. Two men, 18 and 47, were arrested at the house and taken to the Arouca ...

UWI to host first virtual graduation UWI will host its first ever virtual graduation as a result of the covid19 pandemic. In a statement on Thursday, the university said the ceremonies will take place on January 11 and 12 and will be broadcast live on UWITV. The university is the latest in a line of institutions such as Queen’s Royal College to move graduation ceremonies online rather than cancel them altogether. The two-day event will consist of five ceremonies and cater to over 4,000 gradua...

Photos of the day: January 7, 2021 Thursday 7 January 2021 A flock of birds at the Hollows, Queens Park Savannah, Port of Spain. - Ayanna Kinsale Newsday photographers captured some of these images reflecting the past 24 hours in Trinidad and Tobago. Other photos were submitted by readers like you. If youd like to be featured in our daily photo galleries, please e-mail us a photo to news@newsday.co.tt with the caption "Photo of the Day" and we will pick one photo each day to feature, with a fe...

Arouca cop held for rape File photo A 34-year-old policeman was arrested in relation to reports of rape in Arouca on Thursday morning. Police said members of the Arouca CID, Northern Division Task Force Area Central and the Cybercrime Unit went to the National Union of Government and Federated Workers (NUGFW) housing development, Arouca, at around 5 am. They were making enquiries into the report of a rape that took place on Wednesday afternoon. Police found a man they believed to be the suspect...

Permit suspended: Driver challenges demerit point system Wednesday 6 January 2021 File photo: Traffic wardens check out their handheld ticketing devices at the launch of the demerit point and traffic ticketing system on the Audrey Jeffers Highway in Port of Spain in May. Photo by Angelo Marcelle An Arouca man whose driver’s permit was suspended for six months after he allegedly racked up ten points has mounted a legal challenge to the new traffic laws demerit point system. However, the judge ...