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POLICE RESCUE CAR DEALER
Kidnapped businessman saved as abductors flee
Denyse Renne and Keino Swamber
Saturday, April 3rd 2010

Kidnap victim Ashraf ’Alvin’ Ali escaped from his abductors early yesterday as police closed in on the criminal gang after a dramatic chase in Central Trindad.

Police said they received information that Ali, 30, a used car businessman, was kept in a house at Pashley Street, Laventille, after his abduction.

An operation mounted by several agencies, including Criminal Intelligence Unit, North Eastern Division Task Force, Special Anti-Crime Unit and Anti Kidnapping Unit, began with officers searching several homes at Pashley Street, around 8 p.m. on Thursday.

During the search in Laventille, police said they received information that Ali had been taken out of the area in a white panel van and they enlisted the assistance of Viper One, a helicopter. The van was spotted travelling south along the Uriah Butler Highway, in the vicinity of the Charlieville flyover.

Several roadblocks were also set up by Central Division officers in an attempt to snare the kidnappers. Read More POLICE RESCUE CAR DEALER
Kidnapped businessman saved as abductors flee
Denyse Renne and Keino Swamber
Saturday, April 3rd 2010

Kidnap victim Ashraf ’Alvin’ Ali escaped from his abductors early yesterday as police closed in on the criminal gang after a dramatic chase in Central Trindad.

Police said they received information that Ali, 30, a used car businessman, was kept in a house at Pashley Street, Laventille, after his abduction.

An operation mounted by several agencies, including Criminal Intelligence Unit, North Eastern Division Task Force, Special Anti-Crime Unit and Anti Kidnapping Unit, began with officers searching several homes at Pashley Street, around 8 p.m. on Thursday.

During the search in Laventille, police said they received information that Ali had been taken out of the area in a white panel van and they enlisted the assistance of Viper One, a helicopter. The van was spotted travelling south along the Uriah Butler Highway, in the vicinity of the Charlieville flyover.

Several roadblocks were also set up by Central Division officers in an attempt to snare the kidnappers. Read More POLICE RESCUE CAR DEALER
Kidnapped businessman saved as abductors flee
Denyse Renne and Keino Swamber
Saturday, April 3rd 2010

Kidnap victim Ashraf ’Alvin’ Ali escaped from his abductors early yesterday as police closed in on the criminal gang after a dramatic chase in Central Trindad.

Police said they received information that Ali, 30, a used car businessman, was kept in a house at Pashley Street, Laventille, after his abduction.

An operation mounted by several agencies, including Criminal Intelligence Unit, North Eastern Division Task Force, Special Anti-Crime Unit and Anti Kidnapping Unit, began with officers searching several homes at Pashley Street, around 8 p.m. on Thursday.

During the search in Laventille, police said they received information that Ali had been taken out of the area in a white panel van and they enlisted the assistance of Viper One, a helicopter. The van was spotted travelling south along the Uriah Butler Highway, in the vicinity of the Charlieville flyover.

Several roadblocks were also set up by Central Division officers in an attempt to snare the kidnappers
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This sport related but good anyway: CARIFTA GAMES
http://www.newsday.co.tt/sport/0,118540.html
TT bag 13 medals on 1st day including three golds

TT bag 13 medals on 1st day including three golds
Monday, April 5 2010

At the end of the first day, Trinidad and Tobago had a bag of 13 medals – three gold, eight silver and two bronze.

Ahye crossed the finish line in 11.50 seconds, ahead of Allison Peter of the United States Virgin Islands (11.51) and V’Alonee Robinson of the Bahamas (11.57).
In the 400 metres, Trinidad and Tobago copped silver medals in the respective Boys Under-17, boys Under-20 and Girls Under-20 deciders.
In the Boys Under-17, Darvin Sandy was second in 48.62, between a pair of Jamaicans Lennox Williams (48.01) and Omari McDonald (48.99).
Sparkle McKnight, who clocked 53.96 in the Girls Under-20 quarter-mile final, trailed Bahamian Katarine Smith (53.71) with Grenadian Kanika Beckles (54.04) placing third.
And highly-rated Grenadian Kirani James smashed his 2009 CARIFTA mark as he breezed to gold in the Boys Under-20 one-lap final. James ran 45.02 on Saturday night, lowering his previous standard of 45.45, to beat the field which included Trinidad and Tobago’s Deon Lendore (46.59) and Jamaica’s Jermaine Gayle (46.80).
Mark London was Trinidad and Tobago’s first gold medallist at the meet, as he won the Boys Under-17 1,500m in four minutes 8.28 seconds, while compatriot Nicholas Landeau got silver in 4:12.37 and Juma Mouchette of Bermuda got bronze in 4:12.82.
Shaunna Downey notched the second victory for Trinidad and Tobago – 34.79m in the Girls Under-17 discus. Gleneive Grange of Jamaica got silver with 34.57m while another TT entrant, Sherisse Murray, got bronze with 30.98m.
Ashley Smith took silver in the Girls Under-20 shot put, with a throw of 13.06m, 0.32m behind Jamaica’s Candicea Bernard who made a gold medal effort of 13.38m. Racquel Williams of the Bahamas was third in 12.40m.
Dawnelle Collymore was a bronze medallist in the Girls Under-20 1,500m, as she ran 4:46.03, well behind the Jamaican duo of Natoya Goule (4:36.34) and Sharlene Nickle (4:42.13); while Carisa Leacock was edged out by Rochelle Farquharson of Jamaica in a dramatic Girls Under-20 long jump.
In their respective sixth and final jumps, Farquharson leapt 6.03 metres to take gold, while Leacock managed 6.02m, and Jasmine Brunson of Bermuda was a distant third in 5.86m, also her last attempt.
In the morning session, Trinidad and Tobago earned silver medals in the Boys Under-20 discus and the Girls Under-17 shot put through Quincy Wilson and Sherisse Murray respectively.
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The express has us up to 29 medals on day 3
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Some environmental news:
www.newsday.co.tt
Fishing Pond in beach clean-up for the turtles

Fishing Pond in beach clean-up for the turtles
Monday, April 5 2010

Two weeks ago there was the first-ever beach clean-up exercise at the Fishing Pond beach, Genda Road, Fishing Pond. Although this beach is one of the significant nesting beaches for leatherback turtles in Trinidad, a concerted exercise to make the nesting area free from debris was never undertaken. This year, spurred on by similar initiatives at other nesting beaches, the Fishing Pond community in conjunction with the Wildlife Section, Forestry Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources engaged in cleaning the beach area.

The event began at 7 am and volunteers to this important exercise were transported by boat along the Oropouche River to the beach where the clean-up exercise began.

This was necessary as access by foot was hampered by the inundated swamp bordering the beach area.

One hundred and fifty bags of litter were collected and removed from the beach. Volunteers to this event included St Augustine Girls’ High School, Fishing Pond Presbyterian School, Nature Seekers, Michael Nanan URP (Sangre Grande), Sangre Grande Regional Corporation, Turtle Village Trust, DESALCOTT, Ministry of Agriculture (El Reposo), residents of the area and members of both community groups in Fishing Pond.
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This is wonderful news. And you know why they did it ? Did you know that in Turtle nesting season there are alot of tourists from England and sort. It was declining in our country and now they wanna bring it back big this yr.
 
RauCous said:
This sport related but good anyway: CARIFTA GAMES
http://www.newsday.co.tt/sport/0,118540.html
TT bag 13 medals on 1st day including three golds

TT bag 13 medals on 1st day including three golds
Monday, April 5 2010

At the end of the first day, Trinidad and Tobago had a bag of 13 medals – three gold, eight silver and two bronze.

Ahye crossed the finish line in 11.50 seconds, ahead of Allison Peter of the United States Virgin Islands (11.51) and V’Alonee Robinson of the Bahamas (11.57).
In the 400 metres, Trinidad and Tobago copped silver medals in the respective Boys Under-17, boys Under-20 and Girls Under-20 deciders.
In the Boys Under-17, Darvin Sandy was second in 48.62, between a pair of Jamaicans Lennox Williams (48.01) and Omari McDonald (48.99).
Sparkle McKnight, who clocked 53.96 in the Girls Under-20 quarter-mile final, trailed Bahamian Katarine Smith (53.71) with Grenadian Kanika Beckles (54.04) placing third.
And highly-rated Grenadian Kirani James smashed his 2009 CARIFTA mark as he breezed to gold in the Boys Under-20 one-lap final. James ran 45.02 on Saturday night, lowering his previous standard of 45.45, to beat the field which included Trinidad and Tobago’s Deon Lendore (46.59) and Jamaica’s Jermaine Gayle (46.80).
Mark London was Trinidad and Tobago’s first gold medallist at the meet, as he won the Boys Under-17 1,500m in four minutes 8.28 seconds, while compatriot Nicholas Landeau got silver in 4:12.37 and Juma Mouchette of Bermuda got bronze in 4:12.82.
Shaunna Downey notched the second victory for Trinidad and Tobago – 34.79m in the Girls Under-17 discus. Gleneive Grange of Jamaica got silver with 34.57m while another TT entrant, Sherisse Murray, got bronze with 30.98m.
Ashley Smith took silver in the Girls Under-20 shot put, with a throw of 13.06m, 0.32m behind Jamaica’s Candicea Bernard who made a gold medal effort of 13.38m. Racquel Williams of the Bahamas was third in 12.40m.
Dawnelle Collymore was a bronze medallist in the Girls Under-20 1,500m, as she ran 4:46.03, well behind the Jamaican duo of Natoya Goule (4:36.34) and Sharlene Nickle (4:42.13); while Carisa Leacock was edged out by Rochelle Farquharson of Jamaica in a dramatic Girls Under-20 long jump.
In their respective sixth and final jumps, Farquharson leapt 6.03 metres to take gold, while Leacock managed 6.02m, and Jasmine Brunson of Bermuda was a distant third in 5.86m, also her last attempt.
In the morning session, Trinidad and Tobago earned silver medals in the Boys Under-20 discus and the Girls Under-17 shot put through Quincy Wilson and Sherisse Murray respectively.
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The express has us up to 29 medals on day 3
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We finished with 40 Medals (12 Gold Medals)..National record at carifta..However for a country our size I still feel like we under-achieving...anyway here is the link http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl ... =161623347
 
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B'dos looks for T&T help
Tackling poverty
Aabida Allaham
Wednesday, April 7th 2010

MEMBERS of the Bajan government are in Trinidad and Tobago seeking new methods to help alleviate poverty in their country.

’We think that if we can take some of the experiences from Trinidad and Tobago we will be able to avoid any pitfalls, learn from the challenges and overcome them,’ explained Sonja Welch, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment, Urban and Rural Development in Barbados.

The team from Barbados, which includes Undene Whittaker, Poverty Alleviation Adviser to the Prime Minister, Diana Haynes, project coordinator, Patricia Watts, Acting Chief Welfare Officer and Dawn Barrow, systems administrator, met with Amery Browne, Minister of Social Development, and several members of the Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (TTCCTP) at the ministry’s head office in Port of Spain yesterday to discuss how what methods could be used to assist them.

In 2007, the Central Statistical Office (CSO) reported that this country had a poverty level of 17 per cent. However, in 2008, Dr Sandra Sookram, research fellow at UWI’s Sir Arthur Lewis Institution of Social and Economics (SALISES), believed that figure was now closer to 25 per cent, based on her own research from UN figures.

And back in 2004, the United Nations Statistics Division reported that poverty affected 8.7 per cent of Barbados, or approximately 35,000 people.

Welch, nevertheless, said this country was more advanced and the programmes implemented by the Ministry of Social Development have already gained international recognition because of their effectiveness.
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Hmm so what do we know how to alleviate poverty in this country... Because i am not seeing any changes to trinbago. And who are we to give advice if we cannot help out own country
 
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Impaired, but not helpless
Sateesh Maharaj
Tuesday, April 6th 2010

The Santa Cruz Valley is normally the definition of peace and tranquillity, especially around the School for the Visually Impaired. But recently the silence was shattered with the loud thud of backs hitting mats and screams meant to intimidate.

Ten students of the school were graded on their techniques and moved from white belt to yellow and, in two cases, yellow to orange. It was a moment that students of the school will always remember, for they proved that they are just as competent as their visually sound peers.

Anthony Hart, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Judo Association, said the programme led by Sensei Linus Brown has been ongoing since November 2008 and has proven to be a great success.

’What this programme does is that it demonstrates the versatility of the particular sport. It is one of the few martial arts where the visually-impaired could take part. In other countries, there are people who with this same condition who beat mercilessly people who have the facility of sight.’

Now sponsored by Saffire Engineering Ltd, Hart said the once-dormant programme has breathed new life.

’This programme goes back way into the 80s. This is just a reactivation. The problem we were having was that the instructors who were conducting the programme were not paid. So the programme died. Now we have a sponsor who is financing the programme; it is a lot more successful and attractive now.’

So if these participants are visually impaired, how are they able to compete?

’The sport in itself is one of touching,’ Hart explained. ’Unlike karate, where they try to strike you, in judo each opponent takes a grip of each other and sight thus becomes null and void; it goes by a sense of balance. That is the essential quality of judo. Depending on how you move you can be thrown, as well as if you don’t.’

At the session, students-ranging in ages from eight to 21-had to display a keen sense of balance and show various techniques of throwing and ground immobilisation. In training they are taught to break a fall so as not to injure themselves.

Saffire Engineering Ltd managing director Vishnu Tewari said the students filled him with pride after witnessing their skills.
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Local scholar lauches book on philosophy and film
Tuesday, April 27th 2010

The launch of Dr Gabrielle Hezekiah’s first book, Phenomenology’s Material Presence: Video, Vision and Experience, was the occasion for a gathering of family, friends and academics at the National Library (NALIS) in Port of Spain recently.

The book, described by the author as an exploration of philosophy and the aesthetics of the moving image, features the video documentaries of celebrated local filmmaker Yao Ramesar.

Dr Jean Antoine-Dunne, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts and the first coordinator of the Film Programme at the University of the West Indies (UWI), presented an extensive review of the book. She described the work as pioneering and placed it within the context of both film theory and the writing of Caribbean thinkers such as Wilson Harris and Derek Walcott. Ramesar’s videos Heritage: A Wedding in Moriah, Mami Wata and Journey to Ganga Mai were also screened and a copy of the book was presented by Hezekiah to Annette Wallace, Executive Director of NALIS.

Among the guests were Ramesar, Prof Rhoda Reddock, Prof Gordon Rohlehr, publisher Julie Morton, artist Ken Crichlow and filmmaker Christopher Laird. MC for the event was writer/media producer Georgia Popplewell.
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I reall hope i can get an inside scoop on this Sando thanks for the info
 
LINK http://www.ctntworld.com/LocalArticles.aspx?id=20434

Special calf finds love in Moruga
Saturday 1st May, 2010


The Ali family in Moruga has been raising cattle for decades; so they expected the birth of a new calf to be as normal as any other.


It doesn't take long to realise that there's something different about the calf.


The bovine doesn't have an upper jaw, its nose was cut in half, and its nostrils are at the side of its mouth.


It can walk, or run as normal but it can't feed from his mother like any other calf. It's fed through a baby bottle four times a day.


It's the first time the Ali family, who has been raising cattle for decades has seen anything like this. But despite its difference they've already made Bruno Billy part of the family.


But there's a sad side to this calf's tale. Veterinarians are telling the family they won't treat the animal because of its deformity. They'll only offer services if the family wants to put the animal down. But that's not good enough says Shaheeda Ali.


Bruno Billy has already become an attraction for the community. The Ali family says they will take care of the newest member of their family for as long as he stays with them
 
So how is that positive Andre?????
 
Anyhow.... i feel really sad for the animal because of its deformity but somehow i know it will have a good healthy life especially with the family. The reason why the vets won't treat it is because its genes can reproduce more deformities and also afraid any meds might not agree with it However they should atleast treat the animal if there is anything that need to be done.
 
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Embacadere and the glory days of sugar
Louis B Homer South Bureau
Monday, April 5th 2010

EMBACADERE, on the outskirts of San Fernando, has a history dating back to the early 18th century when sugar was a prime export commodity.

Some refer to the area as Backaday, but it was from the shipping of sugar from there to the Caribbean and Europe that it got its name. The embarkation of sugar from the factory to vessels anchored in the Gulf of Paria was a thriving trade in those days.

’Those were the glorious days of sugar production, when the Cipero River was used for transporting sugar in small boats and loaded onto the vessels lying out at sea,’ recalled Stephenson Paul, a resident living close to where the operations used to take place.

Paul said his father told him that ’Martinique and Guadeloupe were two important destinations for the sugar which was used in those islands for the manufacture of rum’.

He said, ’Sugar in those days went through various phases and different types of transportation. First it was carted by mules and bulls from the fields to the scales. Then it was loaded in heaps on train carriages.’

After processing the cane at the factory at Usine Ste Madeleine, it was loaded onto barges or boats that took the sugar to large vessels lying at anchor at Embacadere.

He said, ’Cipero River was a principal waterway for commercial vessels and Embacadere was the ultimate destination for the small boats.’

That time is gone. Embacadere is now one of the major housing settlements of the Housing Development Corporation. It consists of some 20 high-rise apartment buildings.

The area where the boats operated during the sugar boom has been taken back by the mangrove.

Carla Singh and her family live on the road leading to the river. She has seen many physical improvements in the area, but her major concern is the protection of the environment.

She said, ’During the rainy season it is a haven for crab catchers, and, along the seafront, oyster vendors have almost extracted every oyster living in the rocks.’

In spite of the environmental problems, the area is a precious piece of wetland that could be transformed into a local tourist attraction.

’The place has everything for healthy recreation. It has facilities for sea bathing, river sports and other marine entertainment. The mangrove growing near the river is a special type that is not found elsewhere,’ Singh said. Â

Standing on the seashore and looking in the direction of the Cipero River, one could hardly imagine that it was once a deep channel that ran straight into the sea.

Singh said, ’The river has dried up, but during the rainy season a lot of water comes down and sometimes causes flooding at Green Acres.’ Green Acres is a residential area on the southern bank of the Cipero River.

The residential area at Embacadere has its own history, perhaps more recent than the river area.

Paul, 65, a former employee of the San Fernando Borough Council, recalled that ’the area where the high-rise apartments were built was called the dump. All the solid waste from many areas was dumped there to fill up the area’.

He recalled that, at one time, the people living around the dump made a living from salvaging discarded material brought to the dump in truckloads. He said dumping on a large scale has stopped.

Paul said, in the past, the area was called ’the labasse’ and some people used to call it ’cacatway’.

He said the soil in the area was fertile and many short crop farmers had small gardens at Embacadere. He also remembered when there was the sugar house on the present site of WASA’s sewage treatment plant.

’That was a long time, but it brings back pleasant memories of the days when we used to walk along the river bank catching birds and squirrels and large blue crabs,’ he said.

’Those days will never come back,’ Paul moaned.

The river mouth was an exciting place to visit, he said.

’There were painted poles stuck in the ground to serve as reflectors for the boats plying on the river. Nearby, there were acres of grass planted as fodder for mules working the estate. People used to come and cut the grass with curved grass knife, tie them in bundles and take the bundles to the estate.’

Paul said when he moved to Embacadere it was the first time he saw a ’three-storey’ box cart.

’The boys made those box carts to carry drums of water because there was no pipe-borne water at the time,’ he said.

The houses are now supplied with pipe-borne water.

One resident recalled that at the entrance to the area was the ’paupers’ cemetery’, where people who died penniless are buried.

’I used to dread that place. It was frightening,’ the resident said.

The paupers’ cemetery, no longer used, is now part of the Roodal Cemetery.

Embacadere is also home to the headquarters of the South Trinidad Scout Movement. Every year, a special Emancipation Day programme is organised by members of the community.

Living on the banks of the Gulf of Paria is an asset to the community, but there are those who fear that one day those living close to the sea might be moved to another area to give way to the expansion of the proposed San Fernando King’s Wharf facility.
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A homeless man living under a bridge in Ste Madeleine lost his few belongings to the floods that swept across South Trinidad on Wednesday.

But Randolf George was taken in that night by good samaritan Radhica Burton, who said yesterday he could build a home on her land, if citizen would help.

George, 55, ended up on the streets 35 years ago, when his mother died.

With no relatives to care for him, George wandered the village, residents said.

Yesterday George said he would like help.


helping hand: Radhica Burton assists Randolf George in making a telephone call at her St Madeline home yesterday. - Photo: Dave Persad

Burton, of Coquette Street, Ste Madeleine, asked for the public’s help yesterday.

She said, ’I really don’t want him to go back out on the streets. I have a little piece of land to the back of my home. If someone could help him to build so that he does not have to go back under the bridge, that would be good.’

Burton, a single mother who has for the past year offered food to George, said he slept on the living room couch Wednesday night.

She said George does not have a birth certificate or a national identification card but he remembers his date of birth. She said he was deserving of public assistance.
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