New law on cards to tackle child labour
GOVERNMENT IS moving to draft new legislation to eliminate child labour locally, despite progress in reducing the incidence of abuses here. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Alvin McIntosh, insisted the country needed...

Yacht enthusiasts finish sixth round in Pt Antonio
AT 9 O'CLOCK last Saturday evening, the first of 10 Dubois 68-foot yachts sailed over the finishing line at Port Antonio to mark the end of leg six in the Clipper-Ventures Round the World Yacht Race. This is the fourth of such races...

Take your claws off lobster 'til June 30
THE FISHERIES Division in the Ministry of Agriculture and Land is reminding the public that the closed season for lobster is still in effect until June 30. This prohibits the catching, buying or selling of fresh-landed lobsters.

Mobile clinic to hit the road
A MOBILE health clinic donated by Jamaican entrepreneur Vincent Hosang, of Royal Caribbean Bakery, is to be unveiled at a civic reception at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, tomorrow. The mobile clinic, which was donated...

Dad poisons kids, kills himself on Father's Day
PORT-OF-SPAIN (Trinidad Express): POLICE ARE probing a murder-suicide as Trinidad was rocked on Sunday when a man poisoned his children and killed himself after they came to spend Father's Day with him.