December 23, 2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Earns Critics’ Choice Awards Nomination
After a record-breaking opening weekend at the box office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has earned an award nomination. The film on Tuesday received a nod in the best picture category for the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards. The nominees were…
December 23, 2015
Teresa Giudice Released from Prison
Teresa Giudice, star of Real Housewives of New Jersey, has been released from prison, her lawyer confirms to ABC News. Her release comes a few months before the scheduled end of her 15-month sentence. Giudice was sentenced to prison last year…
December 23, 2015
Tiger Woods expects majors in next decade & 2016 Ryder Cup
Tiger Woods is back in upbeat mood and expecting to win major championships over the next decade. He had back surgery for the second time in 18 months in September and talked about retirement earlier this month. Now the former world number one, who…
December 23, 2015
India puts brakes on Facebook’s Free Basics scheme
Facebook's effort to provide Indians with free access to a limited number of internet services has run into trouble. The country's telecoms regulator has asked the mobile network that partnered with the US firm to put their Free Basics offer on…
December 23, 2015
Oil prices will reach $70 a barrel by 2020, says Opec
Oil producers' group Opec has said it expects oil prices to recover to $70 a barrel by 2020. Prices have fallen from more than $110 a barrel in the summer of 2014 to less than $37 a barrel now due to oversupply and slowing demand. But Opec said oil…
December 23, 2015
Court orders exiled tycoon’s arrest
A Russian court has placed ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on an international wanted list over the 1990s murder of a Siberian mayor. Mr Khodorkovsky has been living in exile in Europe since he was pardoned by President Vladimir Putin in 2013…
December 23, 2015
PUBLIC FORECAST FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT WEDNESDAY 23RD DECEMBER 2015
THIS IS A PUBLIC FORECAST FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT WEDNESDAY 23RD DECEMBER 2015 ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY AT 6AM GENERAL SITUATION: PERSISTENT HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE…
December 23, 2015
Grenada taking measures to deal with H1N1 outbreak in Trinidad
Grenada says it will implement “all necessary measures that are legal” as it puts its disease surveillance system on alert in light of confirmed deaths related to the H1N1 virus or Swine Flu in Trinidad and Tobago “Our choice at this time is the…
December 23, 2015
T&T PM warns against going to IMF
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Tuesday said his administration is moving towards reviving the ailing economy of the oil rich twin-island Republic and avoid going to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He urged citizens “to acknowledge that we…
December 23, 2015
Iraqi Troops Close in on IS Fighters
Iraqi troops closed in on Islamic State fighters Wednesday in central Ramadi, where they are trying to retake the city they lost seven months ago and further shrink the IS "caliphate." In the second day of a major offensive, forces led by an elite…