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1 shopper per family as supermarkets aim to limit crowds President of the Supermarket Association of Trinidad and Tobago (SATT) Rajiv Diptee. Newsday file photo- WITH new covid19 infections rising daily and the potentially more virulent Brazilian variant of the virus confirmed locally, the Supermarket Association (SATT) is moving to implement a one person per family quota for shoppers in order to limit crowds – especially at month end – at groceries and supermarkets. In the past seven days...

Flavourama: good food, crafts in St James GREVIC ALVARADO This Friday, at the Flavourama Gastronomic-Cultural Festival in St James, entrepreneurs from ten countries will show their traditional foods and crafts for two days in an open-air space on Barbados Road, near Long Circular Road. Organisers Milena Rodríguez, Crystal John and Alistair Beadle told Newsday the grand opening will be on Friday at 3 pm. It will run until 9 pm that day and on Saturday. The fair will have 30 producers, from Jama...

Colour me Orange? Warriors maul hastily arranged Tobago outfit in glorified fete match After contrasting claims about the harmony—or lack thereof—within the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team, head coach Terry Fenwick tried to put his worries behind him, at least temporarily, with an emphatic 8-0 win over a handpicked posse of Tobagonian players, branded the Orange XI, in a friendly encounter at the St James Police Barracks yesterday. Fenwick described his opposition as ‘com...

Update 6.20 pm, March 3: The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) is advising customers served by the Caroni Water Treatment Plant that the raw water quality in the Caroni River has improved as of 1 pm on Wednesday and that operations at the facility have been normalised. The production rate at the facility is 70 million gallons daily (mgd) as compared to a capacity of 75 mgd. This is based on water availability in the Caroni River and releases from the Arena Reservoir consistent with WASAs ...

Contractor levies on EFCL for $1.2m debt Thursday 18 February 2021 Bailiffs gather desk name plates of board members of the Education Facilites Company Ltd (EFCL), dinnerware and glasses during a levy on the state-company on Thursday. A PENAL contractor has levied on the Education Facilities Company Ltd for $1.2 million owed for renovations done for four schools in 2015. Court marshals and bailiffs for GM Transport Company Ltd went to EFCL’s offices at Long Circular Road, Maraval, on Thursd...

POLICE shot and killed two young men in Dibe, Long Circular, yesterday, taking the number of people killed by police this year so far to 56. In this latest incident, police said the men fired at them and they fired back. Relatives of one of the men however claimed otherwise. Killed were Jeremiah Ellis, 18, and Shane Moses, 20. Police said around 5 a.m. yesterday officers from the St James Police Station and Western Division Task Force went to Tractor Hill, off Dibe, Long Circular, where they at...

Family of man killed by police confused over circumstances Shane Moses, 21. - Antoinette Ellis, the mother of 18-year-old Jeremiah Ellis – one of two men killed during a police-involved shooting in Long Circular, St James early on Monday morning, said she is confused and heartbroken over the death of her son. Police said members of the Western Division Task Force went to the younger Ellis Tractor Hill home off Dibe Road to search the house at around 4 am when they were shot at by someone ins...

A soldier was detained by the Regiment after he fired off his service weapon into the air at the Regiments military installation at Long Circular in St James. As the Regiment says an investigation is now ongoing, the National Security Minister told our Political Editor Juhel Browne that he was provided with the preliminary details surrounding the incident by the Chief of Defence Staff.