5,000 charged during first six weeks of 2015 Reshma Ragoonath Published: Sunday, February 15, 2015 Deodat Dulalchan Even as millions continue to be spent on programmes to help curb delinquent driving, the Police Service has recorded an estimated 70,000 traffic violations nationwide for 2014. And not even the hefty fines seem to have made a…
NEWSDAY by Jamille Broome Sunday, March 1 2015 As we’re all aware, new traffic fines went into effect on January 30, 2015, with the amendment to the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Act via the Finance Act 2015. This was in reaction to the 146 accidents, which resulted in 164 deaths in 2014, coupled with…
By STACY MOORE Tuesday, August 12 2014 LAMENTING the recent road fatalities in Trinidad and Tobago, a magistrate yesterday slapped a $5,000 fine on a truck driver who pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol. Kalim Mohammed, 55 of Mission Road, Freeport, was given seven days to pay the fine or serve…
CHEERS: A recent PAHO/WHO survey shows TT ranks very high in terms of the amount of alcohol consumed. … TRINIDAD and Tobago and two other CARICOM countries were identified in a Pan American/World Health Organisation report on alcohol use as having the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the Americas, and Health Minister Dr…
NEWSDAY By AZARD ALI Thursday, January 29 2015 A SAN FERNANDO magistrate yesterday heard two cases of drunk driving where in one case, alcohol was consumed to celebrate a new life, while in the other case, alcohol was used to dull the pain of the loss of a loved one. Andy Tam, 31, in…
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Thursday May 15, 2014, CMC – The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed Grenada as having the highest alcohol consumption per capita in the Caribbean. In its 2014 Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health, the WHO said the island was given a 12.5 per cent rating, followed by St. Lucia…
November 4, 2014 WASHINGTON D.C., United States, Tuesday November 4, 2014, CMC – A new study of emergency department patients in 18 countries, including Guyana, shows that the risk of injury caused by acute alcohol consumption is higher for women compared with men. While the risk of injury is similar for both men and women…
Tuesday, August 12 2014 THE EDITOR: The Chaguanas Chamber of Industry and Commerce is deeply saddened by the high spate of road carnage, loss of lives and fatal accidents occurring on the nation’s roads. This latest accident at the Endeavour Flyover on Tuesday July 29, 2014 that claimed the lives of the three Ramcharans from…
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