May 2015

Bolt, Powell triumph

May 27, 2015 in Sports

[caption id="attachment_5698" align="alignleft" width="300"] Jamaica sprinter Usain Bolt (centre), Carvin Nkanata of Kenya, (right) and Isiah Young of the United States compete during the 200m at the IAAF World Challenge Zlata Tretra (Golden Spike) athletics tournament in Ostrava yesterday. (PHOTO: AFP)[/caption] DOUBLE world record holder Usain...

John Nash killed in car crash

May 27, 2015 in International

Mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner whose longtime struggle with mental illness inspired the movie “A Beautiful Mind”, was killed in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey, state police said on Sunday. The couple were in a taxi when the driver...

Do Not Play Demonic Game

May 27, 2015 in Regional

A well-known religious figure has issued a firm warning to members of the public, in particular school children, to desist from playing a new “demonic” game, which is popular on social media. Bishop Charlesworth Browne of the Christian Ministries Centre said the “Charlie Charlie Challenge” is...

Four T&T schoolboys charged with rape

May 26, 2015 in Regional

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago (CMC) — Four primary school boys are to reappear in court on July 17 after they were charged with raping a 12-year-old student earlier this month. The boys were not called upon to plead when they appeared before Magistrate Cheryl Ann Antoine Monday in...