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Hotline THE TRINIDAD and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC) has responded to pleas by residents of Malabar Branch Road, Arima, to replace a faulty street light in the area. |
TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Aaron Mahabal is seeking assistance from the National Insurance Board to pay for medical expenses he incurred due to injuries he sustained as a result of an accident last September. |
OFFICIALS at the Ministry of Works and Transport, on Wednesday last, visited Moolai Trace East off Penal/ Quinam Road, Penal, after residents pleaded with the authorities to repair the bridge which had partially collapsed. |
COURTS furniture store is expected to exchange a Brother Sewing Machine which Rachael Collins-Brown purchased for her friend. |
AN official at the Ministry of Social Development’s TT Food Card Division has promised to assist Natandaye Perry to get a new card. |
SANTA MARIA RC School, in Moruga, is perhaps the only school in Trinidad and Tobago which does not have a telephone. |
THE HOPE of a Miracle Foundation (Hispanic Women in Trinidad and Tobago) recently received a Silver Seraphin nomination from the Jackson Memorial Foundation. |
A CUSTOMER who purchased a pair of jeans at a popular store on High Street, San Fernando, is upset after she went home and realised a button was missing from the jeans’ front pocket. |
The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC) has responded to a call by a Sangre Grande resident, who had asked that a tree trunk, which fell across El Reposo Road and was left across the drain, be removed. In a statement yesterday, |
TT JUDICIARY Court Protocol and Information Manager Jones P Madeira said the problem facing members of the public due to the lack of a waiting area at the Family Court at the Siparia Magistrates’ Court will soon be solved. |
A 62 year-old retiree wants to know why it is taking so long to receive his NIS pension contribution cheque. |
Help is one the way for Margaret Ramkissoon, of Pleasantville, who pleaded for a lighter prosthetic limb. |
PENSIONER Vera McEachrane, who recently complained to the People’s Hotline about loud drumming emanating from a Baptist church near her La Romaine home, yesterday said the drumming has become much softer. |
DEONARINE Ramdial paid $425 for a water tank at a hardware at Longdenville, Chaguanas, but complained that three weeks later he is still waiting for it. |
GETTING a connection for TSTT’s Blink broadband Internet service is proving to take a lot longer than Nalicia Mohammed expected. |
THE EDITOR: I totally agree with and endorse the sentiments expressed in your editorial of Saturday February 13. We should long have been harnessing the values of what a National Anthem really means, but we simply do not appreciate the symbolism attached to the emblems of our nation, our Homeland. |
A few weeks ago, en route to work, I decided to do the uncharacteristic, that is, stop for breakfast at a café. I normally have breakfast at home, but that morning I’d left at an hour ungodlier than usual, in a chill more wicked than usual, so I figured a cup of hot coffee and a toasted croissant were my ticket to mental agility as well as my much (...) |
Abbina Forgenie, of LP No 26 Longdenville Old Road, Chaguanas, also worries that if it begins to flood, the dirty water will enter her house. |
Basdeo Nepaul is happy that WASA has repaired a water leak at the front of his house. |
Errol Leslie has finally received his new Direct TV card and can once again look at movies at home. |
RESIDENTS of Upper Seaut Deau Road, La Canoa Road, lower Santa Cruz, are pleading with the Streetlighting and Implementation Unit (SLIU) to erect four poles so that they can get electricity. |
STATE utility the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has replaced a broken and corroded pipeline at the home of Rudolph Roberts of 14 Bagatelle Road, San Juan. Roberts complained to The People’s Hotline that his calls to WASA since last October about the derelict pipeline, had gone unanswered. |
ERROL Leslie is pleading with Direct TV to give him a new card for his cable box at a location that is convenient to him so that he does not have to go to the company’s head offices in Chaguanas. |
The Housing Development Corporation (HDC) has assisted its tenant Dunstan Cobham, who complained of water seeping into his apartment because of rusted pipelines. |
FOR MORE than four years, Victor Turpin has been waiting on the Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) to rectify a problem with two outstanding cheques owed to him. |
RESIDENTS of Esu Drive, El Socorro Road, San Juan, can now see clearly following the installation of two streetlights in their area. |
Rudolph Roberts is pleading with the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to change a broken and corroded pipeline to his home. |
MATHURA Boodoosingh, 58 is frustrated over the non-payment of his disability grant for several months. |
NIZAM Ali, president of the El Socorro Taxi Drivers Association, has thanked the San Juan/ Laventille Regional Corporation for covering an open manhole on El Socorro Road. |
SAN FERNANDO resident Suzette Mohammed has been waiting for close to two years on the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) to call her. |
Michelle George is hoping to finally get a functioning washing machine. George purchased a Kenmore washing machine last October at Standards at the corner of Queen and Henry Streets, Port-of-Spain and from the first day it started making a loud noise. |
Delicia Cooper is frustrated as she has not had a working washing machine for more than two years. Cooper bought a twin tub from Standards on High Street, San Fernando, in December 2007. |
OVERGROWN bushes at the Housing Development Cooperation (HDC) apartments at Cassia Avenue, San Fernando are causing problems for residents. |
The phone was eventually sent to head office to be repaired. She was given a replacement phone for the time being, but a few days after, the keypad was not working. |
A Water And Sewerage Authority (WASA) crew yesterday carried out repair works to the area in front of a doubles stall in Rio Claro. The owner Doodnath Samlal told Newsday last week it had created a dust bowl and was hampering daily sales. |
Samlal, of Robert Village, Tableland, told Hotline he wets the road several times a day to keep down the dust. He transports ten four-gallon plastic containers of water to wet the road. When trucks pass by they stir up the dust, he complains. |
Teelokie Kissoon has not been able to use his landline since December 2009. Kissoon of Lower Barrack-pore complained that there was a loud noise coming from the phone and he was not able to make any calls. He said that he made several reports to TSTT and that he was told a technician would come in five working days, but up to yesterday no one has v(...) |
A part -time COSTAATT student pursuing an Associate Degree in public relations and journalism is relieved that a mix-up involving her grade placement has been rectified. |
Reena Saitoo needs a new washing machine. |
SOME residents of the quiet village of Granville, Cedros, are calling on the Water And Sewerage Authority (WASA) to provide a regular supply of water. |
SHAM “Boogie” Kidaroo, 58, of Longdenville, has been missing for the past eight months and his siblings are concerned. Kidaroo’s sister Angela said he was last seen in St Mary’s Village, Moruga, in a dishevelled state. |
A LA ROMAINE mother is in need of the disability grant she applied for last June. |
HIMRAJ Mangray’s laptop has been repaired. |
ONE resident of Matura has complained that villagers in the area are still without water. |
Pensioner Althea Thomas has not received her pension cheques for the last six months and cannot afford to purchase her medication. |
After waiting for more than five months on the Streetlighting and Implementation Unit (SLIU) to install a streetlight on LP 599 at St Mary’s Village, Carapichaima, residents of the area feel much safer. |
RESIDENTS of Guayaguayare Road in Rio Claro are angry over the poor drainage and road conditions they have to endure daily. |
RESIDENTS of Golconda Road, San Fernando, can expect repair works on their damaged roads to commence within the next two weeks. |
CAROL WILSON-WILKES of Maloney Gardens, Maloney, is still waiting to be paid for work she did with the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) two years ago. She said this was her third Christmas without money because she is yet to receive payment for the periods October 8-19 and October 22- November 2, 2007. |
Esther Vincent of No 23 Freedom Street, Lot 10 Village, Parryland, Guapo said she spent her Christmas without any water. |
Himraj Mangray will not get his laptop computer for Christmas as promised by McEnearney Business Machines Limited (MBM) last week. |
For more than five months residents of St Mary’s Village, Carapichaima have been pleading with the Street lighting and Implementation Unit from TTEC to install a street light on LP#599. |
THANKS to The People’s Newspaper Princes Town resident Irene Roberts-Ferreira will soon be getting her laptop fixed by Courts furniture store. Ferreira, a security guard had purchased a Sony Vaio laptop, two years ago, from Courts Ltd, on Lower High Street, San Fernando. |
RESIDENTS of Commission Street in Mon Repos, South Trinidad are calling on the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to send them an early Christmas gift of pipe-borne water on a more regular basis. |
A PENAL resident is demanding that the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) deal with a fallen pole near his home. Ramesh Harnarine told Newsday the pole near his 150 Penal Rock Road home was damaged over a month ago during a vehicular accident. |
GARY Lynch, 25, of Sundarsingh Trace, Rousillac told Hotline he wants the Point Fortin branch of Courts store to replace a Duet washing machine. |
Himraj Mangray, wants back his Dell Vostro 1700 laptop computer from McEnearney Business Machines Limited (MBM) repair shop where he said it has been lying around for the past month. |
An unlit recreation ground in Sunrees Road, Penal, has Kelvin Martin,24, upset. |
ADANNE John, 25, of Carapal Branch Road, Erin wants a Siparia cellphone outlet to return her LGKF 240 cellular phone, which was sent to the outlet since November for repairs. |
WINSTON Guischard, 59, a resident of Boodoo Street, Warden Road, Point Fortin, complained to Hotline that the road is deteriorating daily. |
THE Consol refrigerator Harracksingh Boysie purchased from Unique Furtinure and Appliances Store in Penal, stopped working three weeks ago and although he was promised a replacement, he is still waiting on it. |
DIRECT TV has responded to the complaints of two customers. |
IRENE Ferreira, 46, of St Julien Village, Princes Town, wants a leading furniture and appliance store in San Fernando to repair the cover for her laptop which has started to crack. |
NEILA Maraj, 27, of Light Pole 26, Buen Intento Road, Dyer Village, Williamsville, no longer has to worry about a swarm of bees which made its hive on the light pole, near her house. |
BUSINESSWOMAN Jenny Sharma’s Just Give Foundation — a charitable organisation set up to assist the impoverished in society — has extended a generous hand to the parents of little Faith Davis. |
BABSIE Rampersad, 65, of Victoria Street San Fernando wants to know why the Geriatric Adolescent Programme has not paid her husband’s caregiver for at least three months. |
MANOJ Rajkumar, 30, of Corinth Road, Ste Madeleine, wants his Blackberry returned to him. Rajkumar told Hotline he purchased a Blackberry Flip 8220 cellular phone at Lets Talk Cellular Outlet, A & S Mall, High Street, San Fernando. |
CLARA ORIE-BIRJU wants a refund for a faulty cellphone she purchased at a store in Gulf City Shopping Complex, La Romaine. |
ETHELBERT White, 64, of Savannah Road, Gonzales Village, Guapo, is complaining of a landslide in the area which caused the collapse of the main road, which was recently fixed by the Point Fortin Regional Corporation. |
GP Road in Barrackpore is riddled with numerous potholes and as the main thoroughfare leading to several communities in South Trinidad, residents believe it has been forgotten by the relevant authorities. |
TRAINEES with the Multi Sectoral Training (MUST) programme at the Laventille Community Complex will begin receiving their stipends by today, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education has assured. |
ZABEEN Juman, 43, of Hollywood Beach Road, Point Fortin, wants a refund from Courts Furniture Store for a Precision 27-inch television set she said began giving problems when she purchased it in 2007. |
UNEVEN and pothole-riddled roads plague residents of Violet Drive, Calcutta Settlement, Freeport, and they are calling on the Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo Regional Corporation to build proper roads in the district. |
JOAN Pompey, 42, of Bonne Aventure Road, Mayo, says she is not getting water. |
WATER from a sewer is leaking into Ramnarine Ramkissoon’s property at Violet Drive, Calcutta Settlement, Freeport, and he wants the Couva/ Tabaquite/Talparo Regional Corporation to do something about it. |
EVEROD Hosein, 59, of Harold Avenue, Mootoo Lands, Marabella, wants the Public Health Department of the San Fernando City Corporation to issue a notice to the owners of an abandoned lot next to his house. |
THERE is an overgrown lot of land at Gail Street, La Romaine, and Jean Samlalsingh is not happy about it. |
BELINDA Lalmohan, 22, of Ethel Street La Romaine, says she paid TSTT for a land line connection since last year and is yet to receive it. |
MERVYN Layne, 69, of Bien Venue Housing Settlement, La Romaine, wants TSTT to secure the cables that are hanging from a pole in the area. |
WATER problems plague Joyce Lee, 57, of Platinique Trace, Rochard Road, Barrackpore. |
THE EDITOR: Having recently completed building my house even going a bit overboard with a few luxuries like teak cupboards and a jacuzzi for a whopping $600,000, I cannot for the life of me fathom how a flag can cost $2 million. |
ROSHNI Mohan, 23, of Sunrees Road, Penal, wants to know why she is receiving bills from the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) when she has not received a pipe borne water supply for three years. |
RESIDENTS of Upper Picton Road in Laventille have been promised that non-functioning street lights in their community will be repaired soon by the contractor employed by TTEC’s Street Lighting and Implementation Unit (SLIU). |
Kelvin Towine can look forward catching up on his favourite movies on his Direct TV system. |
Residents of Germaine Avenue, San Juan, can expect the Street lighting and Implementation Unit (SLIU) to replace a defective streetlight by today. |
A rotted light pole is causing problems for residents of Santa Rosa Heights, Arima, and they are pleading with TTEC to remove the pole immediately. |
ANSELM Jeffrey, 55, of Parrylands, Guapo, wants the Courts Furniture Store in Point Fortin to repair a Magnum 32-inch television he bought in October 2006. |
DIANNE Jaggernauth, 45, wants Parts World, in San Fernando, to replace a Whirlpool refrigerator she purchased at the store. |
After applying for a new phone four months ago, Venika Villafana, of Lower Santa Cruz, has finally received her connection. Villafana contacted Hotline on October 19, and said she paid for the installation of a land line. |
PETRA MEJIAS of Maracas St Joseph is appealing to TSTT officials to repair her phone line which she says has not been working for the past three months. Mejias’s daughter-in-law called Hotline on October 20, saying that since August, they have not been able to receive any incoming calls. |
TWO DAYS after purchasing a brand new Whirlpool fridge on September 11 from a furniture store in Port-of-Spain, Jestine Coy of St Paul Street, Port-of-Spain realised that it was malfunctioning. |
D’ABADIE pensioner Lionel Cox says he is upset at not receiving his senior citizens grant for November 2008 and is yet to be compensated by the Social Welfare Division. |
Gallons of water are being wasted everyday at Stewart Lane, Belle Eau Road, Belmont. |
Michael Maraj of Tunapuna has reportedly lost some of his important documents such as his recently renewed driver’s permit as well as his identification card along with other business cards between last Monday and Tuesday, and is asking for assistance from the public to help him locate those documents. |
SOME 25-plus Multi- Sector Skills Training Programme (MUST) trainees are complaining of outstanding stipends owed to them. |
WAYNE Bando, of Upper Laventille Road, East Dry River, Port-of-Spain can expect some relief soon as the East Port-of-Spain Development Company has met with the contractor hired to build a retaining wall at East Dry River to resolve all issues of outstanding payment. |
FOR over a year, Stern Seerattan was unable to watch television because of a problem with his Direct TV’s receiver. |
UNEMPLOYMENT Relief Programme worker Polly Dabideen has been in the programme’s CORE project since June and said she is yet to be paid for two fortnights in June and July. |
Paul Albert’s phone line was repaired and has been working as of Thursday, last. |
Tenants at an Housing Development Corporation apartment building at Upper Nelson Street, Port- of-Spain, have been receiving dirty water in their taps for the past week. |
FOR several months, Edlyn Bernard, of Laventille, has not had water flowing through her pipes and when she is physically able to, which is not often, she has to go to a standpipe at the bottom of the hill for water. |
ONE day after Tara Ramkhelawan’s complaint was published, the Water and Sewerage Authority has supplied her with a truck-borne supply of water and assured her that diagnostic work was being done to find out which of the pipes were corroded and needed replacing. |
WATER is no longer gushing from a broken underground pipeline at Southern Main Road, California, as the Water and Sewerage Authority has repaired the leak. |
TARA RAMKHELAWAN, 43, of Hillpiece Village, Phillipine, told Hotline that she has not received a reliable supply of pipe-borne water since February and is at her wits end wondering why WASA does not deliver a reliable supply. |
On September 16, Desmond Hoyte got a notice of disconnection from WASA. The notice said his account had an arrears of $15,000 and if he did not pay the sum by September 30 the water supply to his home in Diego Martin would be disconnected. |
Surajnath Maharaj once more has a dial tone after TSTT repaired his residential telephone. |
The Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) has fixed Rita Marshall’s residential phone line which was not working properly for the past several months. |
RAMNATH MAYRHOO made a report to Hotline on September 8 that she had not received pipe-borne water at her home in Champs Fleurs for more than three weeks. |
Rookmin Sookdeo from Rochard Road, Penal called Hotline on September 15 complaining of a spark on a telephone pole which burnt a wire causing her line to go dead. |
Patient care employees of the Port-of-Spain General Hospital claim they are owed allowances for the months of June, July, August and September of this year. |
The Water And Sewerage Authority (WASA) has repaired a rusted underground pipeline that was leaking for more than a month in Pearl Gardens Terrace, Petit Valley. |
Relinda Sampson, a labourer in the URP women’s programme, claims she is owed wages for five fortnights between October to December 2007 and February and March 2008. |
HELEN Alexis is appealing to the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) to repair a telephone cable line in front of her property at St Joseph Road, San Fernando. |
Angela Gobin, of Borde Village, Cipero Road, San Fernando, wants Standards Distributors Limited to fix a refrigerator which she claims was damaged when she took the appliance back to the store to be repainted. |
Raul Lutchmansingh, 64, of Cachip Village, Moruga, has complained about the poor water supply in the area. |
Forde told Hotline she bought both items on July1, and since then part of the CD player began malfunctioning while the spark plug on the weed whacker went bad. |
A fallen pole in La Romaine has left residents of Kluck Road without telephone service. |
ANTHONY PHILLIP, 60, of Sunrees Road in Penal complained to The People’s Hotline about the National Insurance Board’s (NIB) failure to give him his National Insurance Scheme (NIS) retirement benefits. And he is waiting on the money to pay for much needed eye surgery. |
Blackman said, after he had travelled by Caribbean Airlines to return home, he went to collect his luggage and upon collecting it, he said, he discovered it destroyed. He said, he reluctantly removed the luggage so other waiting travellers could receive their belongings. He said, as soon as he lifted the bag from the conveyor belts, his clothing an(...) |
A SOUTHERN-based contractor is accusing the Siparia Regional Corporation of not paying him for work he did last year. |
Occupants of the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) apartment building on Circular Road, San Fernando, have complained that they have been living in darkness for the past six months. |
A leaning avocado tree is touching the upstairs of a house in Valsayn and the homeowner Louise Singuineau said she is appealing on the tree’s owner to cut it since she said the tree is infested with termites. |
RAMKARAN Singh, 77, of Avocat Junction, Fyzabad Main Road, is complaining of noise pollution caused by dislodged covers of two man holes located just outside his dry goods store on Avocat Junction. |
NIGEL Maharaj is appealing to the directors of a supermarket in Arima to pay him the money he is owed for his time of employment at the establishment, since he has a family to take care of. |
RESIDENTS of Cocopiece Road, Bonne Aventure, Gasparillo, have not received a regular supply of pipe borne water for 23 years and they say life is unbearable because of this. |
POONIA RAGOO only realised last Friday that money had been taken out of her father Ramdial Sankar’s account at First Citizens Bank, but no one seems to know by whom. |
JASMINE Martin bought a freezer from a leading appliance store seven months ago and it started malfunctioning two months ago. |
Shamina Deen thought the Digicel phone she bought at one of the company’s branches in Princes Town in July, would be able to make international calls based on the information she received from the store’s sale clerk about the phone’s capabilities. |
Digicel has delivered Nicollette Mark’s phone which she had received for her birthday from her mother earlier this year. |
ALLISON Duncan called Hotline to complain about a brand new Samsung phone she bought from a Digicel outlet in Port-of-Spain on May 27, which she said stopped working when she reached home. |
Kim Yee Wong-Liang, an 85 year-old pensioner from Santa Rosa, Arima, who is suffering from cancer and who has a congenital heart disease, has not received her pension grant for almost a year. |
Khalawhan Seecha-ran, 62, of Digity Village, Debe, said someone was maliciously pulling out young plantain shoots from a one-acre garden he planted on state lands at Lawrence Hill, Barrackpore. |
Savitir Mahboob was eagerly looking forward to looking at movies on cable after she signed up for a package from FLOW. |
Last Friday, Anthony Paynter, of St James, went to collect his mail from his mail box and found one of the envelopes was already opened. |
A DOUBLES vendor who operates in the bus parking area in Oropouche is apparently causing traffic, making it difficult for pedestrians when they are crossing the road. |
STROKE victim Augustus Brasnell has not received his disability claim from Guardian Life, although he submitted the relevant documents nine months ago. |
Residents of Bon Air West, Arouca, are pleading with the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation to send the garbage truck regularly in their area. |
For more than two months residents of Fullerton Village, Cedros, have been pleading with WASA to rectify the problem with their water supply. |
For more than five months, Louisa Daniel, of 42 Victoria Village, Cross Crossing, San Fernando, has been pleading with the National Insurance Board (NIB) to rectify the problem with her widow’s benefit. |
For more than four months, Christianna Badal has been pleading with TSTT to restore her telephone service. |
Residents of Belmont Valley Road, Belmont, are pleading with the Port-of-Spain City Corporation to collect their garbage on a regular basis. |
For more than a month, Namdeo Seunarine has been waiting for TSTT to repair his telephone. |
Residents of Sixth Avenue, Upper Malick, Barataria, are pleading with WASA to send a regular supply of water to their community. |
ANIKA Bobb is having problems with her maternity benefits and she wants the National Insurance Board (NIB) to stop giving her the run-around. |
CHOW Richardson has been waiting on TTEC for the past two years for compensation after he was injured when he fell into a hole dug by the utility company. |
As the new school term is about to open Carl Rajkumar is appealing to TSTT to rectify his problem. |
Subradai Persad, of Ramnanan Street, Garth Road, Williamsville, called Hotline to complain that the Sony Erickson W3ATI cellphone she bought from a Digicel store in Princes Town, on February 26, began giving her problems, one month later. |
KIMBERLY John has been, for the last five months, pleading with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education to pay her outstanding stipend owed to her. |
EACH month Marlene Ali pays her monthly WASA bill but she does not get water from her pipes inside her house. |
SHELLYANN Telesford has, for the last two years, waiting on her TT Card and wants the Ministry of Social Development to intervene. |
For more than eight months, Tricia Da Costa has been pleading with Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) to install her telephone service so her daughter can gain access to the Internet for her studies. Da Costa, of Fanny Village, Point Fortin, said last November she moved from her previous residence in La Brea and had to disc(...) |
For more than two years, Judy Toll has not been able to use her telephone. |
He said three weeks after he bought the phone, it kept cutting off and he took it to Digicel’s Wireless store in Chaguanas where he was told they would repair the phone. |
Sandra Mcknight is pleading with the National Insurance Board (NIB) to rectify the problem with her NIS payment. |
EARLY morning joggers are pleading with the Street Lighting and Implementation Unit to repair about seven street lights along the Western Main Road, Carenage. |
PENSIONER Rosalind Amarales is pleading with state utility the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to send a regular water supply to her and the community she lives in. |
RESIDENTS of Duff Trace South, Lower Barrackpore, are pleading with the Water and Sewerage Authority to send them a regular supply of water. |
TWENTY-year-old Sonya Charles hopes that she will one day get to wear the dress her boyfriend bought her. |
Theresa Borneo wants to start construction on her house but is unable to do so because cable wires to her neighbour’s house run over her house. |
It has been more than three weeks since residents of Hololo Mountain Road, St Ann’s, have been pleading with WASA to send a scheduled water supply to their community. |
PENSIONER Mervyn Hinds wants FLOW to hook him up with their all-inclusive digital package which includes Internet access, telephone and cable connections. |
FOR THE last six months residents of Duff Trace Extension, Sisters Road, Hardbargain, Williamsville, have been pleading with WASA to send water to their community. |
It has been more than a month since residents of Ramcharitar Road, Welcome Road North, Cunupia West, have been pleading with the Street Lighting and Implementation Unit (SLIU) to repair a street light. |
TRUCK DRIVER Deodath Ramsubhag has been waiting on the National Insurance Board for more than a year to pay him the remainder of his sick leave claim. |
Residents of St Francois Valley Road, Belmont, are pleading with the Port-of-Spain City Corporation to collect their garbage on a regular basis. |
Gemma De Gannes, of La Romaine, had eye surgery in February. She said she made a claim for sick leave benefits at the National Insurance Board (NIB) and got a portion of the payment. |
Michael Williams, of Parforce Road, Gasparillo, is frustrated because there is no water in his community. He is also upset because he said WASA does nothing to let customers know water is going to stop altogether. |
FORMER Caroni worker Baldath Bhookal, of Cumuto Road, Barrackpore, got a job with the Ministry of Agriculture for three years, but last year found himself unemployed. |
Evelyn Ali, of Payne Avenue, Rio Claro, is the nominee chosen to collect her retarded sister-in-law’s Public Assistance cheque. |
Tomorrow, 12 dance groups will do battle against each other, in the first edition of Synergy TV TT’s Number 1 Dance Crew. Dance crews from all over the country will come up against each other at Fiesta Plaza, MovieTowne from 3 pm. |
Leroy Roberts is keeping his fingers crossed and hoping that the phone connection he received from FLOW will begin to work before the end of the week. |
YVONNE John, of Tacarigua, can expect to receive her bread box and food steamer, she purchased from Caribbean Shopping, a home shopping service. |
A WASA leak is causing problems for Cameron Mitchell, who lives at 23 Fifth Street East, Cane Farm, Arouca. |
FOR the last month, residents of St Rose Street, East Dry River, Port-of-Spain have been pleading with the Street Lighting and Implementation Unit (SLIU) to repair a streetlight in the area. |
Sandra Tuitt wants customers who purchase plastic chairs to be cautious of businessmen selling inferior products. |
Residents of Darsan Trace, Siparia, are pleading with WASA to rectify the problem the irregular supply of water in their community. |
Zayiff Hosein is pleading with the National Insurance Board (NIB) to rectify the payment of his sick leave benefits. |
RESIDENTS of Alice Street in Curepe are calling on the Public Health Department (PHD) of the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Cor-poration to maintain and keep their street clean. |
Vance Kenneth is pleading with the Ministry of Social Development to assist with rectifying the problem with his 20-year-old son’s Disability Grant. |
Residents of Dass Trace Enterprise, Chaguanas are complaining about the nauseating stench emanating outside their homes for more than a year. |
IT HAS been more than a year, residents of Sadhoo Road, Manzanilla have been pleading with the Sangre Grande Regional Corporation to cover two large potholes that keep getting larger. |
For the past two weeks residents of Alexandrite Street, Bon Air West, Arouca, have been plagued by a deep hole in the road almost two feet in diameter. |
While other people in her neighbourhood have given up their land lines in favour of mobile phones, 51-year-old Elizabeth Khan of Sankar Trace, Princes Town, is still trying to hold on to the older service. |
Dilip Bissoondath is pleading with the National Insurance Board (NIB) to rectify the problem with his outstanding payment for injury benefit and payments of his Disability benefit. |
Errol Moreno wants Direct TV to rectify a problem with his service. Moreno, of Building 54-56, Apartment F, George Street, Port-of-Spain, said he applied to Direct TV in July, 2008, and made a request for three cable boxes. |
It has been more than six months since residents of Hibiscus Valley, Petit Valley, have been pleading with WASA to send the scheduled two-day supply of water to their community. |
AFZAL MOHAMMED is pleading with officials of the National Insurance Board to rectify a problem with his injury benefit. He said he has not received any payments since he made an application in February, 2008. |
Residents of Oropouche Road and Darsan Trace, Siparia, can now get their household chores done since they are now receiving an improved supply of water. |
DIPCHAND SEEPERSAD, of Circular Court, Circular Road, San Fernando, would like someone at Bankers Insurance to tell him why his no-claim bonus on a policy he took out with them in 2008, was voided. |
Deodath Pragg of Balmain Village, Couva, said he purchased a Samsung M310 cellphone from a Digicel branch in Curepe, on May 2 and four days later the camera on the phone stopped working. |
SAHADAI PAPAN called Hotline for assistance after she did not get two of her National Insurance Scheme (NIS) payments for January and February. |
IT HAS been a year and six months since Marlon King has been waiting very patiently on TSTT to repair his telephone. King of Whiteland said that ever since his phone stopped working in December 2007, he made several reports to TSTT. |
Ramlochan Singh is pleading with the Social Welfare Department to rectify the problem with the outstanding amount on his Senior Citizens’ Grant. |
It has been more than three months since Angela Henry has been pleading with WASA to send the scheduled one-day supply of water to the residents of Quarry Road, Quarry Village, Siparia. |
For close to eight months Rajendra Bissessar has been awaiting a response from FLOW on a cable connection to his home for his two children. |
For the last year Marion Knutt-Piper has been pleading with TSTT to fix her parents’ telephone. |
FOR the last four months, residents of Sadhoo Road, Manzanilla, have been pleading with the Public Health Department of the Sangre Grande Regional Corporation to collect their garbage. |
A young boy has fallen into a manhole at Aranjuez Main Road, and the proprietor of a bar nearby wants the authority to take immediate action. |
Roopnarine Sookoo wants the Social Welfare Department to rectify the problem with his Senior Citizens Grant. |
Carlyle Perch, of Sandpit Road, Quarry Village, Siparia, has been pleading with WASA to send a regular supply of water to his community. |
IT HAS BEEN more than three months since Stephen Worrell of, 29 Back Street, Tunapuna, has been pleading with TTEC to give him a rebate or repair his television set after it was blown by an electrical outage. |
Errol Rampersad is pleading with the Social Welfare Department of the Ministry of Social Development to rectify the problem with his public assistance grants. |
Food inflation, the key driver of headline inflation, is edging up again. |
Residents of Oropouche Road and Darsan Trace, Siparia, are pleading with WASA to increase the water pressure in their pipelines. |
It’s now more than a year that pensioner Richard Joseph of Samuel Street, Matelot Village, Toco, has been pleading with TSTT to repair his telephone. |
SAMDAYE RAMROOP, 80, can’t fathom a reason why the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) is sending her bills even though she has never had a pipeline in her yard at Laltoo Trace, Penal. |
It has been more than a year since Beulah Davis, of 21 Caparo Valley Main Road, Todds Road, Chaguanas, has been pleading with TSTT to repair her telephone. |
Residents of Pregnancy Lane, La Puerta Avenue, Diego Martin, are pleading with WASA to provide them with a scheduled water supply. |
It has been more than four months since Deosaran Ramcharan, of Derry Lane, Mc Bean, Couva, has been pleading with the National Insurance Board (NIB) for his sick-leave claim he submitted last December. |
Residents of Calvary Hill, Morvant, are pleading with WASA to provide the scheduled two-day water supply since it has been an inconvenience for them to get their household chores done. |
Thomas Sotio is pleading with TSTT to rectify the problem with his telephone service. He said it has not been working for approximately eight months. |
Sharlene James is pleading with the Social Welfare Department to rectify the problem with her daughters’ public assistance grant. |
RESIDENTS of Ballihosein Trace, Quarry Village, Siparia, are pleading with WASA to give them a more regular supply of water than they usually get. |
FOR more than eight months Victor Baptiste, of 20 North Trace, New Grant, Princes Town, has been pleading with TSTT to rectify the problem with his telephone. |
Life for residents at Second Street, Bennett Village, Los Bajos, Santa Flora, is very tough since they have been without water since 2004. |
It has been more than two years since Claris Weston of 17 Fort George Branch Road, Indian Walk, Moruga, has been pleading with TSTT to rectify the problem with her phone. |
Cheryl Antoine of, 231 Plover Crescent, North Classique, La Horquetta, Arima, has been pleading with TSTT for the past five months to connect her phone line which was supposed to be done since December 1. |
Jacqueline Sobers wants officials at the Tunapuna Social Welfare office to rectify the problems with her son’s public assistant grant. |
Residents of Sum Sum Hill, Claxton Bay are pleading with WASA to connect their pipelines, so they can receive water in their homes. |
SAMDAYE MAHARAJ is pleading with TSTT to rectify the problem with her telephone which has left her with no service for almost a year. Maharaj of Pleghorn Village, Princes Town said she has called TSTT offices several times over her disconnected phone but the problem still exists. |
According to Evelyn, FLOW experienced some technical difficulties for about two weeks last September and her service was interrupted. |
Residents said the light (LP #87) has not been working for more than a year. |
Harripersad Boodhoo is pleading with the Ministry of Social Development to help him receive a TT Food Card. |
RESIDENTS of St Rose Street, East Dry River, Port-of- Spain, want a regular supply of water and are calling on the Water and Sewerage Authority to assist them. |
Residents of Ramoodith Trace, Southern Main Road, McBean, Couva, are pleading with TTEC to remove a swarm of bees on a light pole that is preventing workmen from connecting three streetlights in the area. |
CHANDRA JOHLAI is pleading with TSTT to repair her telephone which has not been working since August, 2007. |
Santa Mayo has to ration her water supply and is pleading with WASA to increase the water pressure so that she can get water at her LP#69 Centre Trace, La Seiva Village, Maracas, St Joseph, home. |
Annette Piper wants the Social Welfare Division of the Ministry of Social Development to rectify a problem she has been having with her pension for the last two years. |
Residents of Guayaguayare are calling on the Streetlighting Implementation Unit (SLIU) to install two streetlights in their area. |
Residents of Ramoodith Trace, Southern Main Road, McBean, Couva, are pleading with TTEC to remove a swarm of bees on a light pole that is preventing workmen from connecting three streetlights in the area. |
Indira Gayadeen-Rampersad is pleading with the Social Welfare Department to rectify the problem with her 11-year-old Special Grant cheques, which she has not received for the last three years. |
Delcina Campbell loves to read the Bible and daily newspapers each day. She is 92 years old, but now, she is in need of glasses which she does not have. |
PENSIONER Samlal Heeralal is grateful for the wheelchair he received from the Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross Society after his story was highlighted in Newsday, the People’s Paper. |
URSULA ABDUL is calling on the company from which a stove was purchased as a birthday gift for her, to replace the stove or repair it, since it is malfunctioning. Abdul of Siparia said her son-in-law purchased a GE 30 inch, four-burner stove at Mervyn’s Appliances Limited in Marabella at a cost of $4,550. |
Ryan Cumberbatch is pleading with his insurance company Algico to rectify the problem with his insurance claims which he said he is yet to receive. |
Jessel Joseph wants the Ministry of Social Development to correct the problem with her nine-year-old son, Zion’s public assistance grants. |
An abandoned property overgrown with grass has become a breeding ground for snakes, mosquitoes and insects and the residents of Paulita Crescent, Pine Haven Gardens and La Resource in South D’Abadie want the Public Health Inspectorate (PHI) of the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation do something about it. |
June Currency is concerned that the water coming from a leak close to her house could cause problems if it is not repaired soon by WASA. |
RESIDENTS of Dass Trace Extension and Bhagaloo Street Extension, both in Enterprise, Chaguanas are pleading with the owner of several goats to keep the animals secured in a pen or at least on leashes, since they have been roaming the area unattended. |
Adanna Hernandez purchased new equipment for her hairdressing salon and she hoped she would have been able to use it by now. |
KERN THOMAS, has a phone number but cannot use his telephone because although he paid for a telephone connection, he is still to get it. Thomas, of Lot 3C Ralph Narine Trace, Harris Village, South Oropouche, said he applied for a telephone and paid $212, in June, last year. |
VIO ARCHIBALD wants the Ministry of Social Development to assign a welfare officer from the Marabella Social Welfare office to her, so an application for a Senior Citizens Grant can be expedited. |
Residents of Upper Dookhan Hill, La Canoa Road, Lower Santa Cruz are pleading with WASA to replace a stand pipe in the area because they said it is an inconvenience to them. |
Adolph Guy is encouraging shoppers to be very careful when purchasing curtains during the Christmas season or for any special occasion. |
Pensioner Irvin Williams wants the Ministry of Social Development to correct the sum of money he’s receiving for his Senior Citizens Grant. |
PENSIONER Agnes St Bernard wants the Ministry of Social Development to send a welfare officer from the Tunapuna Social Welfare office to her home so that her application for a Senior Citizens Grant can be expedited. |
Residents of Upper Maraj Trace, Cantaro Village, Santa Cruz are pleading with the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to supply the community with a regular truck borne supply of water. |
A MASSIVE landslip threatens the lives of a Rio Claro family who have no where to go if they lose their house. |
Lionel Cox is pleading with the Social Welfare Division of the Ministry of Social Development, to replace two stolen pension cheques. |
VICTORIA REYES is pleading with the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC) to make a new wire connection and change the meter to her house. Reyes, of Rostant Street, Upper Bournes Road, St James said she rewired her house from 110 volts last Christmas and about a month ago, visited TTEC to pay for a new connection of 220 volts and a new(...) |
Sheila Williams and her neighbours have been forced to purchase water for the last four months since their supply was interrupted because of a burst water main at Eastern Quarry, Laventille. |
Molly Tirbaynee has not been able to use her telephone for almost two years and she wants TSTT to intervene and restore her service. |
Margaret Arneaud, 60, pays her WASA bills on time but she is not getting water. |
FRANCIS Ghouralal has been pleading with FLOW for the last two years to fix the cable connection to his house. |
NATASHA Robinson is having some problems with the utility services. She has complained that WASA does not send water as often as she is sent her water bill and when there is water in her taps, the pressure is too low. |
CAROL DAVID, 59, is visually impaired and has been waiting for two years for her Voluntary Separation of Employment Package (VSEP) from the Ministry of Health. |
Residents of Martinez Trace, Arima Old Road, Arima are pleading with the authorities to have the owner of a property, overgrown with grass, clean and maintain the premises. |
Residents of Alice Street, Curepe, are calling on the Public Health Department of the Tunapuna Piarco Regional Corporation to maintain and keep their street clean. |
Nirmala Seeram can now use the Internet to finish her assignments since TSTT has re-connected her telephone service. |
Kathy Ann Smith is pleading with the National Insurance Board (NIB) to rectify the payment of her mother’s Survival Benefit which, she said, stopped suddenly. |
Residents of Manhattan Drive and Kingdom Avenue, Arima, are calling on the Arima Borough Corporation to repave their roads and cover the open potholes soon before their taxi fares rise. |
Gloria Chankadial is pleading with the Social Wel-fare Department to tell her why her sons have not been getting their public assistance grants since last May. |
Residents of Ferry Road, Malabar Farms, Carapo, are calling on the Trinidad and Tobago Streetlighting and Implementation Unit (SLIU) to install three streetlights in their area. |
Sherma St John wants the steam laundry she sent her white linen pants to, to reimburse her for soiling her garment. |
Judy Nicholas is calling on Columbus Communications (FLOW) to reconnect her cable after it was cut because she failed to pay arrears on a bill for a package she did not ask for. |
Residents of 4 1/4 mile mark, Blanchisseuse Road, Arima, are pleading with the Streetlighting and Implementation Unit (SLIU) to repair the streetlight in their community. |
Residents of Panchoo Road, Fishing Pond, Sangre Grande, are pleading with the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to rectify the water problem in their community. |
PATRICIA Alexander and her family are having problems with a wooden pole that is rotting at the bottom and which is located on their property. |
FOR A YEAR, Nirmala Seeram and her family have been pleading with TSTT to restore their telephone service so she can make calls and have internet access at her Rochard Road, Penal home. |
Pearl Lambert has been pleading with TSTT, for the past four months, to restore her telephone service. |
Residents of Coconut Drive, Morvant, want the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to repair a burst water main which is connected to a stand pipe in the savannah in their community. |
FOR more than five years, Harripersad Ramnarine and his family have been pleading with TSTT to restore their telephone service. |
RESIDENTS of Ramier Street, Morvant, are calling on the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to rectify the water problem in their community since gallons of the precious commodity are being wasted because of a burst water line. |
Residents of Robert Village, Tableland, want proper drains to be constructed in the area and are calling on the Princes Town Regional Corporation to do something quickly since their properties are being undermined by the gallons of water which run off from the road. |
Sylvia O’Connor has been pleading with TSTT, for the past three months, to restore her telephone service. She said she has to use her cellphone to make important calls. |
UPPER CUNAPO Road in Sangre Grande and Park Lane in Morvant now have working street lights after the Street Lighting Implementation Unit (SLIU) repaired defective street lights in their communities. |
Residents of Caratal Section 2, Bonne Aventure, Gasparillo, are calling on the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to rectify the water problem in their community. |
PENSIONER Katherine Chevalier is pleading with the Ministry of Health to assist her to get a neighbour to remove a cesspit, which she said is causing her a lot of problems. |
A leaning light pole at 4 Roy Mootoo Avenue, Sangre Grande, is causing problems for Kathleen Moore and her family for the past two years.. |
A leaking water hydrant at Courage Trace, Santa Cruz, is causing a lot of problems for residents in the area. |
Residents of William and Furness Withy Streets, Success Village, Laventille, are calling on the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to rectify the water problem in their community. |
Lincoln Thomas has been pleading with TSTT, for the past eight months, to restore his telephone service. |
Parents of school children attending the Nelson Street Boys and Girls Primary School, Port-of-Spain are calling on the Port-of-Spain City Corporation to maintain an empty lot of land located close to a car park between Queen Street and Independence Square. |
Residents of Batson Place, East Dry River, Laventille, want the Street Lighting and Implementation Unit to install a street light in their area. |
Heeralal Jhinkoo has been pleading with TSTT for over a year to restore his telephone service. |
Lawrence Hood has, for almost two months, been pleading with the Ministry of Social Development’s Social Welfare Division to give him his public assistance grant. |
Latifa Thomas wants the Street Lighting Implementation Unit to install a streetlight at the front of her house. |
Residents at “The Quarry” — a community located at Upper Mt Hope Road, Mt Hope Extension — are calling on the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC) to elevate a fallen pole which has electrical wires on it. |
PRIMARY school pupils living at Golconda Settlement, San Fernando, before they can go to school have to carry buckets of water from a stand pipe some distance from their homes because they have no water. |
SEVERAL On the Job Trainees at the Ministry of Social Development’s Social Welfare office at MTS Plaza, Aranjuez, are calling on the Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education to rectify their stipend payment. |
ALMOST eight years ago, the garbage truck stopped coming into Unity Avenue West, Garth Road, Williamsville, and as a result residents resorted to burning their garbage. |
Residents of St James Terrace are calling on the Street Lighting and Implementation Unit (SLIU) to instal two streetlights in their area. They have been pleading for this for almost a year. |
Boodram Tarouba, for the last three weeks, has been pleading with the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to fix a burst water main in the area. |
Sanjay Hayban of LP# 29, El Socorro Road, San Juan, has thanked Newsday and Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC) for relocating electricity wires entangled in two fruit trees belonging to his neighbour. |
ALICIA Thorne-Joseph has, for the last ten months, been pleading with TSTT to restore her telephone service so that her daughter can access the Internet. |
SINCE JULY 16, last year, more than 100 residents of Sancho Road and Sancho Branch Road, New Grant, Princes Town, have not been able to make calls because their telephone service has been down. |
FOR almost two years, Catherine Thomas has been waiting on the Housing Development Corporation to give her the keys to her housing unit at Demerara Heights, Wallerfield. |
Residents at Mohammed Street in El Dorado are complaining that non-functioning street lights are causing problems in their area. |
SABITA Charles for the past three months has been pleading with the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC) Street Lighting Implementation Unit (SLIU) to repair a streetlight which is not working. |
DILIP Manohar has for the last six months pleaded with Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC) Street Lighting Implementation Unit (SLIU) to repair a street light at the front of his home. |
For more than a month, several residents of Bonne Aventure, Gasparillo, have been forced to purchase water because they have not received their regular supply. |
FOR THE past two years, Danie Gour has been pleading with the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) to repair his telephone which has not been working. He claims TSTT officials have been giving him the runaround. |
FOR THE past two months, Boysie Mungal has been pleading with the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) to repair a burst water main to his house which is causing water to gush into a nearby drain and onto the road. |
For more than two months, Boodlal Ramcharan has been complaining to the Public Health Department of the Arima Borough Corporation, the Mayor and the litter warden about neighbours who put out their terribly smelling garbage close to his house. |
A Penal family of six spent their second night out in the rain on Thursday, after their wooden house was demolished in a land dispute. |
For the past six months, Kamal Latchman has pleaded with the Chaguanas Borough Corporation to unclog a drain which causes water to flow onto the roadway. |
For the past two years, Clifford James has been waiting to collect his NIS Retirement benefit from the National Insurance Board (NIB). |
Residents of Mt Pleasant Road, Carenage, have been waiting for the last two and a half years to have their street lights repaired and another installed in their community. |
FOR the last year and two months, pensioner Shairoon Khan has not been able to use her telephone and has to rely on her cellphone to speak with her children. |
For the last two months pensioner Hardy Hosten and his family have been without a regular supply of water and have been receiving water from the kindness of a neighbour but the family wants to have a regular supply before the dry season starts. |
FOR almost two months, a ruptured main in front of Vilma De Lancey house at LP 72 St Francois Valley Road Extension, Morvant, has flooded the road and is now threatening to undermine her front wall. |
RESIDENTS of Melody Lane, Fyzabad, are calling on the Siparia Regional Corporation to have the garbage truck pass regularly in their area. |
Tenants and their children residing at the apartment building at18-22 Jackson Place, East Dry River, Port-of-Spain, or the ‘Nine Storey Apartments’ as it is called by residents there, have complained that they are not getting water because their water supply is being controlled by a sanitation worker employed with the Housing Development Corporatio(...) |
FOR four years, Marae Padilla expected to receive her pay increase while working at the Ministry of Social Development at its Social Welfare Office in Chaguanas from 2000 to 2004. |
For the past six months, residents of Gran Couva have been appealing to the Street Lighting Implementation Unit (SLIU) to illuminate their community with a streetlight. |
NEFERTITI KUDJOE is appealing to any Good Samaritan to assist her, after she claims, that for the past year, she has been wandering the streets of Port-of-Spain with nowhere to live. |
TOBAGO PENSIONER Eileen Martino is begging the Social Development Ministry to help her after not receiving a pension cheque for over a year. |
Unlike many others, Anjanie Subagh could not telephone her new year greetings to loved ones yesterday. Her residential line has not worked since 2006. |
PEARL LAMBERT, a school teacher from Halamart Street, Malabar, Arima, said she was not able to communicate with her friends and relatives over the Christmas holidays since her telephone was out of service. |
A farmer who lost one and a half acres of his watermelon crop in December 2005 at his Cedar Grove, Mayaro, garden in a flood, said he was promised compensation from the Ministry of Agriculture, but is yet to receive any money. |
THE MOTHER of a one-month-old baby boy is relying on the generosity of family and friends to help her care for her son, because she has not received her maternity and sick leave benefits from the National Insurance Board (NIB). |
It’s the second Christmas more than 100 households of Brothers Road and part of Sisters Road, New Grant, Princes Town, have been without a telephone service. |
For two years Debra Harris, a resident of 18 Bottle Alley, Morvant, has been calling on the Street Lighting Implemen-tation Unit (SLIU) to remove an old light pole in her yard and install a new street light. |
CARLO MONTANO relies on his niece, Christiana, to look after him and purchase his heart medication because he says he is not getting his National Insurance Services (NIS) contributions. |
BITING into a slice of a piping hot pizza for most is a delight, but for Keron Campbell it was distasteful. |
A leaking fire hydrant at 94 Helen Street, Montrose, Chaguanas has been causing flooding on the road for more than five months. |
ALLISON Gulston, a mother of two, has been forced to purchase water for the past three weeks and is hoping that she gets water so she can start to get her house in order for Christmas. |
Retired estate constable Hubert Browne said he has not received his pension, owed to him by the Ministry of Finance, since September, 2005. |
Residents of Melody Lane, Fyzabad, want their neighbourhood park illuminated and two street lights repaired in the area. |
A mother of one is calling on the Street Lighting Implementation Unit to conduct repairs on a street light in front her home, which has not been working for the past four months. |
ANNIE FORTUNE, a mother of two, says she is hoping for a change in her fortune after she lost her Providence Road, Mt Grace, Tobago home to fire on October 13. |
For more than four months Virginia Mendez, of Lp# 16, Beaupres Road, Paramin Hill, Maraval, has been unable to use water from her tap after the connection from the main to her land line was broken. |
Watson Sheullere, a pensioner, of #10 Fitzallen Street, Point Cumana, Carenage has not been able to use his telephone service from mid September to the third week in October, and was billed for two calls of $2,500 and $1,500 while the phone was not working. He is calling on TSTT to rectify the problem. |
For the past two years Joycelyn Gray a resident of Pole A52, 2nd Street Maloney Settlement, Red Hill, Dabadie, has been reporting to TTEC about a rotten electricity pole, in the area. |
Agatha Albertha Jointe is probably our nation’s oldest centenarian. She is 108, at least according to her original birth certificate which states her date of birth is October 30, 1900. However, her national identification card (ID) gives her date of birth as October 2, 1901, which would make her 107. In order to correct this error on her ID card, J(...) |
Pinky Jane Baboolal , a resident of No 12 Saddle Hill, Maraval is calling on the authorities of the Water and Sewerage Authority(WASA) to rectify her water supply before Christmas. |
JOYCELYN Gray, of Pole A52 Second Street, Maloney Settlement, Red Hill, D’Abadie, has for the last two years been complaining of a rotted electricity pole in the area. |
ELVIRA Lalman-Singh, a 76-year-old pensioner from De Gannes Village, SS Erin Road, Siparia, has only received water in her house once a week for the past four months. |
Kathy-Ann Richards of Upper Pashley Street, Laventille, for the last two years has not received disability grants for her seven year-old daughter, Kesha Simmons, who suffers from cerebral palsy. |
The owner of Shoe Frenzy, a shoe store in downtown Port-of Spain, is calling on Signworks, a sign company hired to remove and change the store’s sign from “Shoe World” to “Shoe Frenzy,” install a frame with neon lights and also do some wiring, to complete the necessary work needed for the sign to light. |
ROSILY KHAN, of Mahogany Avenue, Charles Street, Gasparillo, purchased her house six months ago and since then she never received water. |
Ezra Kirton, of Maracas Valley, St Joseph, is asking for the public’s assistance to get back on her feet after a fire destroyed her three-bedroom home on October 31. |
For the past month, Seepersad Ramsarran, of Waterloo Road, Carapichaima, was unable to make telephone calls on her landline since it stopped working on October 22. |
For the past ten days, residents of Kay Street, Frederick Settlement, Caroni, have not had water, while houses on nearby streets continue to receive water daily. |
Lisa Pierre, of Upper Seventh Avenue, Barataria, wants to know why she only receives water four days a month when other areas nearby get a pipe-borne supply on a daily basis. |
Sheila Mitchell-Callender, from St Margaret’s Old Road, Claxton Bay, is pleading with TSTT to restore her land line. The 77-year-old pensioner said her phone suddenly stopped working three weeks ago and since then she has been trying desperately to get it restored. |
Jennifer Davis, of Sixth Avenue, Barataria, is running out of money to live on as she has not received a salary for the past two months. |
WENDY EMRIT, of LP 136, Chin Chin Road, Cunupia Trace, Lallo Trace has a serious mosquito infestation in her area. |
ROBERT Sanowar, a retiree, of Rushworth Street, San Fernando, has to use his cellphone whenever he needs to make a call and can no longer keep in touch with relatives abroad on the Internet. |
FOR OVER a month now Kathy Ann Hinds of Upper St Barb’s Road, Blondell Avenue, Laventille, has been unable to use her telephone. “I made three complaints to the Telecommunications Services of TT (TSTT) about my telephone but I am still waiting on a technician from TSTT to visit my home,” Hinds said. “TSTT said they would send someone but up to now (...) |
SINCE last year Joyce Metivier at Lightpole 52A, Celestine Trace, Morne Coco Road, Maraval, has been calling the TT Electricity Commission (TTEC) to replace a rotting pole that is close to her home. |
SINCE January 2008 Ricky Rampersad, of New Colonial Road, Barrackpore has been requesting assistance from the Telecommunications Service of TT in having his phone repaired. |
FOR six months Bissoondaye Ramsingh, of Palm Avenue, Calcutta Road, No 3 Mc Bean Village, Couva, has been without telephone service. |
RAMDATH LATCHMAN, of 244 Naggee Road, Hindustan, New Grant has been without a working telephone since last year January. |
FOR THE past five months, Shalla Sumaire of Larechette Road, Arima has been calling the Telecommunications of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) to repair her telephone line. |
Cheryl Ann Layne of 14 Pitman Lane, Gonzales, purchased a Samsung washing machine with a two-year warranty on parts and labour from Singer on Queen Street in December. |
ANN MARIE LAKHAN, the owner of Citi Tours and Travel Services said her business has been suffering due to her telephone line being down for a month. |
SINCE 2006, the Bynoe family of 330 Cipero Road, San Fernando has been pleading with the Telecommunications Service of TT to repair their telephone line. |
IT has been more than a year since Clayton Philip and his wife Marjorie applied for their computer generated birth certificates. |
Three months have passed since high flood waters on Mason Street, Diego Martin, destroyed almost every appliance in the home of Michelle Simmons, and she is still awaiting the monetary compensation which was promised to her for her losses. |
CHANDRA Sooknanan, of Quinam Road, Penal, has thanked the Street Light Implementation Unit and Newsday for the restoration of a street light near her home. |
For the past five months, Michelle Pacheo of Small Street, Laventille, has not had pipe borne water in her home. She said every household on her street was experiencing the same problem. She said in order to get water, some residents go two blocks to the nearest stand pipe to fill buckets to tote to their homes. |
For the past seven weeks, Waynette Telesford of Manikin Lane, Maloney Gardens has not had a working telephone in her home. |
Emma Pollard of Bypass Road, Arima, has asked on behalf of all the people on the street, why residents have not had a pipe borne water service in their homes for over five months. |
FOR a month now Gemma Edwards, of Marcano Quarry, Laventille has been unable to use her telephone. |
TWO years have passed and Peter Lockhart of 156-157 Kenneth Drive, Gopaul Lands, Marabella is still without a working telephone. |
FOR the past month a street light at Quinam Road, Penal, has been defective according to resident Chandra Sooknanan. |
FOR several days a dead dog has been left rotting at 59 Eastern Main Road, Tacarigua. |
FOR four months a streetlight in Febeau Village has not been working, leaving the road in darkness causing residents to live in fear of being robbed.
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NICHOLAFFA Coryat is a single mother who is getting frustrated waiting on welfare for her two-month-old son, Daniel. |
THREE weeks have passed since a streetlight has blown at 32 A Picton Road, Laventille according to resident Alphonso James and this has left the street in darkness. |
FOR more than a week now the Ramneehal’s residence has been plagued by high water due to recent heavy rains that have been sweeping across the country. |
ISMAY Phillips of Pole A 50, Aneisha Street, Couva, is dismayed that the street in front of her house is in total darkness. |
SIX weeks have passed and Noelyn Ravello of 121 Coora Road, Siparia, is still without telephone service. |
FOR six weeks now an open lot behind the Chanka Maharaj El Socorro Hindu School, Maraj Street, El Socorro has been a breeding ground for mosquitoes spreading disease and causing concern among worried parents in the area. |
WINSTON HANSRAJ says that since last year he has not had telephone service at his Mendez Extension Trace, Mendez Village, Siparia home, this after a tree fell and damaged telephone lines near his home. |
FOR OVER a month, a resident at Railway Road in Dow Village, California has been living in fear once the sun sets and darkness descends. She said the problem concerns a defective street light. |
FOR OVER six weeks, Henley Hamlet of Lightpole 51, Francois Street in Carenage has been living in darkness once the sun sets because of a defective streetlight. |
ONE MONTH has passed since she first noticed her home telephone was not working and St Augustine resident Girlie Jagroop said nothing has been done by the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT). |
SYLVIA DOOKERAN of Cunapo Southern Main Road in Sangre Grande yesterday complained that since last December, she has been without use of her home phone. “I made a report to TSTT over the phone and I was told the line was repaired. But I have not had any service,” Dookeran said. |
FOR three days Woodbrook residents’ taps have been running dry. Ralph Gill, of 24 Gallus Street, Woodbrook, called the Newsday Hotline on Friday to make a complaint. |
FOR THE past six weeks, residents of Orange Field Road in Carapichaima have been experiencing low water pressure. |
A DAY after Jaime Nelson of Malabar purchased a Motorola E6 cellular phone from Let’s Talk electronic store in Arouca, it stopped working. “The phone was purchased on July 1 and the very next day, it stopped working,” Nelson said. |
FOR the past seven months, Irma Suite of 29 Royal Road in San Fernando has been without a phone service at home. Her son, Nigel Suite, who called Newsday on her behalf, said: “The problem was first reported in April and the Telecommunications Services of TT said it was due to a faulty cable.” |
FOR THE past two weeks, Satnidranath Mahabir of Number Six, Mahabirville, Subero Street in Arima has been without a telephone service at his home. |
For the past three weeks, Angye Batho of St Madeleine Private Road, Marabella, has not had pipe-borne water in her home while only a few metres away water poured onto the road from a burst main. |
EDISON Alfred, of La Puerta Avenue, in Diego Martin, has been begging TTEC to repair a blown street light near his house. He said without the light, the entire street was dark at night and residents were concerned about their safety. |
Josh Collette, of John Dial Village, in Tobago, has been pleading with TSTT for the past five months to restore his land line. |
ENA JUMAN of Martinez Trace, Arima has not been able to send her children to school since the start of the current school term because her house has not had pipe borne water. The frustrated woman said it is a real task to fetch water to bathe or cook food and the family laundry has piled up. |
CRYSTAL COLDERO of Timital Trace in Penal says she has spent the last 17 months dealing unsuccessfully with TSTT to get her landline phone restored. Coldero told Hotline that on May 18, 2007 her telephone suddenly stopped working. |
LEELA Sookhoo of Mc Shine Street Extension, Sangre Grande, is calling on TTEC to repair a malfunctioning street light located in front of a small mini mart in her community. |
FOR THE past two months, the pressure of the pipe-borne water in the home of Harry Ramroop from Orange Field Road, Carapichaima has been so low, that sometimes he feels it might be better to have no water at all. |
DAVEY MAHARAJ of Catherine Drive, Siparia, said her entire street is in complete darkness at night because of a malfunctioning street light. |
RESIDENTS of 17 houses on Lucana Drive, Toco Main Road, Sangre Grande, have spent the past 28 days out of touch because their telephones are no longer working. |
WENDY Mohammed, of Bernarda Julian Circular, Tarouba, said she was speaking on behalf of all the residents in her community when she demanded that WASA return a pipe borne water supply. |
More than 20 houses in Mendez Extension Trace, Siparia have not had a working telephone service for the past six months. |
ALTHOUGH water lines were installed at Papourie Road, Barrackpore, over 13 years ago, residents have never had pipe-borne water. |
BRENDA Julian of Cotton Trace, in Siparia, wants TTEC to immediately repair the streetlight near her house. |
JENNIFER Burnette of Siparia Erin Road, Santa Flora, has not had a pipe borne supply of water in her house since January. |
GAILAND Taitt, of Council Man Gardens Extension, Barataria, has spent the last five months without a pipe borne supply of water. |
MARILYN Anderson of Upper Seventh Avenue, Barataria, has reported some bizarre happenings with her landline. She received a call on her mobile phone from her home phone number, although the line is out of service. |
AFTER SEVERAL complaints and a fiery protest on August 27, the residents of Caroni Savannah Road are finally able to breathe a sigh of relief as their road has been repaired. |
The number 13 is usually regarded as unlucky, and this has proven to be so for Veronica King from Sidka Avenue, D’Abadie. |
RESIDENTS of Pregnancy Lane, La Puerta Avenue, Diego Martin, are concerned for their safety at night because the two streetlights along the road have not worked for the past four weeks. |
FOR the past three years, Zorina Mohan, of John Avenue, Penal, has been living without a continuous supply of pipe borne water in her house. |
FOR the past year, residents of Oropouche Road, Siparia, have only received water between 1 am and 4.30 pm, two days each week, and they want to know why. |
Denise Baker Noel of Picton Road, Laventille, is saying that WASA is treating her unfairly, and she is calling on the State utility to stop their improper behaviour immediately. Noel explained that she has not had pipe borne water in her home for over three months, yet all her requests for truck borne water have been denied by the authority. |
PHILLIS Waljohn, of Winnie Mohammed Street in Diego Martin, wants TTEC to know she is very grateful for their efforts in restoring over five street lights which had not worked for several months. |
ISILINA Andrews, of Albert Street, St Joseph, is demanding that TSTT restores her landline immediately. She said her telephone stopped working in June and since then she has called repeatedly to have it repaired. |
For the past month, Steven Noel of Evans Trace, Laventille, has had to rely on the rain to provide water for his household. |
ALMOST every day for the past 12 days Michael Williams of Parforce Road in Gasparillo has had to walk over two miles to a stand pipe to get water. With a bucket in each hand, he then makes the trek back home. |
Isola Baptiste of Eden Lane, Laventille, is pleading with TTEC to repair a broken street light in front of her home. |
SHEILA LALLA of Quarry Village in Siparia has spent the past ten months afraid to leave her house at nights because of a broken street light. |
PEARLINA Millar of Upper Bournes Road, St James, said she is tired of waiting on TSTT to repair her land line. |
PENSIONER Ivy Phillip of Poui Avenue, Sangre Grande, has been stumbling around her house for the past week since she lost her glasses. |
A concerned Clive Carrington wants WASA to restore a pipe-borne supply of water to his mother’s house at Tulip Drive, Pleasantville. |
SHEILA RAMNARINE of Ramkaliah Trace in Barrackpore is begging WASA to restore pipeborne water to thirsty residents of Branche Road and Khanhai Road. |
Debra Celestine of Upper Sixth Avenue, Malick wants to know why her neighbourhood has not had a regular supply of water in over five weeks. Celestine explained that for the last week in July and the first two weeks of August, none of the residents in her community had pipe borne water in their homes. |
Sati Singh of Gambal Street in Siparia is calling on WASA to restore water to her home immediately. Singh explained that her entire street has not had water for over a month and despite several calls to the state utility nothing has been done to assist her. |
SELWYN Stroude, of Princess Street, Siparia, cannot chat with his children without using his cellular phone. |
It has been three weeks since Ceila Williams of L’Anse Mitan Road in Carenage had water at her home. |
ZAILOOL Rojan, of Hibiscus Drive, Gasparillo, purchased his first cellular phone when his telephone land line stopped working and TSTT never came after he made several reports. |
JUDITH Brunette of De Freitas Street in Los Bajos, south Trinidad, has to turn to her cell phone when she needs to make a call because her landline has not been working since May. |
OLIVER NASH, of Angelina Terrace, Morvant, is worried that there could be an accident if the malfunctioning street light near his home is not repaired immediately. He said without the street light, motorists were only relying on faith whenever they passed through the area. |
DANESH Panchoo of St John Trace, Siparia, has spent 15 months waiting on TSTT to restore the telephone service to his home and the 72 year-old pensioner says his patience has finally run out. |
STEVE Worrell is not an unreasonable man. He is thankful to WASA for repairing a burst water main outside his house, five weeks ago. All he wants now is for the utility to restore the road in front of his house. |
ALVIN Mongroo of Upper Cunapo Road, in Sangre Grande, said last year he only got water for 12 days and he does not expect this year to be any different. |
RICKY Rampersad wants TSTT to immediately fix his nephew’s telephone service. |
RANDOLPH JOHN, of Caratal Road, in Gasparillo, is calling on TSTT to restore the telephone line to his home immediately. |
Rajawati Singh, of Jogie Road, in San Juan, is pleading with TSTT to restore her phone service. |
JOYCE Giles, of Old Southern Main Road, in Mc Bean Village, Couva, has been without her telephone for the past two months and the 67-year-old pensioner said she has been trying desperately to get TSTT to get it fixed. |
Wendy Fortune is calling on WASA to restore water to her home on the Toco Main Road in Matura. According to the 68-year-old pensioner, for the past three weeks she and her husband have been forced to rely on rain water for their daily needs. She said the lack of water has been very difficult for them because they were unable to do any of their dail(...) |
JEWAN Ragbir, of Kangalee Street, in Valencia, is demanding that TSTT restore his telephone line immediately. |
NICOLE Nicholas, of L’Anse Mitan, Carenage, has to wait on the rain if she wants water to do her chores. |
Dora Fanovich of John Shaw Avenue in Arima has not had a working telephone service in her home for eight weeks. |
FOR the past year, Judy Gomez, of Mt Stewart Village, in Princes Town, has received water only one day a week for three hours. |
IT HAS been almost two years since Elizabeth Kissoon’s land line telephone went dead. |
FRANK Ramsaroop, of St Mary’s Village, Moruga, is tired of being put on hold by TSTT as he tries to get his telephone fixed. |
FOR the last three months, Siew Ramkissoon, of Rochard Road, in Penal, has had problems with two of his telephone lines. |
LANA Ramjass, of Edward Trace, in Siparia, is demanding that TSTT restore the telephone service to her home. |
ANCIL Maloney, of Temple Street, Arima, is calling on WASA to restore pipe borne water to the area. |
CARENDAWN WATTS of Squires Trace in Cunupia is demanding answers from WASA as to why people in the area have been without water for the past four months. Watts explained that the road she lives on has a slight incline and households further along the hill have no water. |
CUTHBERT Blackette, speaking on behalf of residents of Paris Boulevard in Laventille, is demanding a TTEC technician be sent to his area to repair a broken streetlight. |
IT has been over three weeks since the residents of Christineville in Brazil Village, east Trinidad, last had water flowing through their taps. |
Anna Pierre, of Sawmill Trace, in Mayaro, is calling on TTEC to repair a broken street light on her road. |
JAIRAM Rampersad’s telephone has not been working since February 29 and he wants to know why. |
FOR the past year, the street light near Marissa Phillip’s Manahambre Road, Princes Town, home has not been working. |
Commuters on Frederick Street in Port-of-Spain are calling on the owners of the various fast food outlets between Duke and Park Streets to dispose of their wastes in a better manner, or move. |
RESIDENTS of Corosal Road, in Williamsville, want to know why they have not been receiving a regular supply of water for the past month. |
Rajendra Bhagirath of Corinth Road, in San Fernando, is calling on TSTT to restore the telephone line. |
Residents of Mangaroo Terrace, off Malabar Road, Arima, are calling on WASA to restore a pipe-borne water supply to their homes. |
MOHAMMED Baksh, of Park Street, in San Fernando, has very caring neighbours who are concerned about his well-being. On Monday, one neighbour, who chose not to give a name, called Hotline to report that the 83-year-old pensioner’s telephone was not working. |
HARRY Dubay, of Roods Avenue in Fyzabad , has not been getting water in his home regularly for some time. |
Kent Licorish, of Mafeking Village in Mayaro, called Hotline last week to complain that he was frustrated because he could not seem to get TTEC to repair a street light near his house. |
POKHOR Road residents in Longdenville have been left in the dark because one of the street lights in the area has been missing for three months. |
JUSTICE of the Peace Hugo John, of High Street in Princes Town, wants TSTT to restore the telephone service at his home. |
POLLONAIS Crescent Road in San Fernando has been in the dark for the last two years because of a broken street light. |
LUCY James, of Jean Trace in Arima, called Hotline on Thursday since her telephone has not been working for over a year. |
ODETTE John, of Carapal Branch road in Erin, says she is fed up because TSTT will not visit her home and repair her telephone line. |
It has been five weeks since Andrew Badall of Moran Trace in Arima has last had a water supply in his home. |
IT has been six months since a passing truck ran into a light pole on Alexander Street in Valencia and broke it in two. |
SAHADEO Jaglal is calling on TTEC to re-install a street light on Church Street, in Claxton Bay, after it was disconnected two months ago following a fire. |
LUCY Williams of Caratal Road in Gasparillo called Hotline to say her telephone has not been working for the last four months. |
A broken street light along Upper Cunapo Road, in Sangre Grande, has Samuel Bissessarsingh worried about his safety. |
CHERYL MOORE, of Rose-wood Avenue, Morvant, no longer has to worry about a high tension wire hanging over her roof. |
Jagedish Roopnarine of Clarke Road, Penal has been without a working land-line phone service for over six months. |
For over six weeks, Ameershah Ali of Andrew Lane in D’Abadie has not had pipe-borne water in his home, despite several reports to WASA. |
Paul Rodriguez of Alana Park in Rio Claro is calling on WASA to restore the pipe-borne water supply to his village. |
MARGARET Morgan of River Estate in Diego Martin says she has an unusual water problem at her home. According to Morgan, she only gets water on one side of her house since WASA did work on a broken main last year. |
HAZEL ANN WONG of Back Street, Tunapuna, is once again receiving water at home. In May, Wong complained to The People’s Hotline that she had gone ten consecutive days without a pipe borne water supply without any explanation from WASA. |
FIVE MONTHS have passed since residents of Upper Mayo Road in Tortuga have had no water flowing through their taps. |
AFTER seven months of reporting the problems he has had with his telephone service to TSTT, Carl Satram, of Lyco Street, in Sangre Grande, is fed up. |
PARANDAYE Sundar, of San Francique Road, in Penal, has been pleading with TSTT to restore her telephone service for over 13 months. She said she was frustrated because she cannot use her Internet nor have use of her telephone. |
FOR over two months, pensioner Irma Adams, of Robinson Street, in San Juan, has not had a working telephone at home. |
Two malfunctioning street lights on Second Street in Phase One, Beetham Estate, have Ingrid Johnson concerned about her safety. |
BLACHE: ALEXANDER CHARLES formerly of #7 Paul Street, Maurice Avenue, Arima died on Monday June 02, 2008 at the age of 68. Husband of Beverly Blache. Father of Alpert Blache, Charlene Blache-Smith and Roger Blache. Father-in-law of Larry Smith, Lana Blache and Margaret Blache. Grandfather of Shaquille, Omari and Kioni Blache and Lawrence Smith. Bro(...) |
RESIDENTS of Palm Drive in Bamboo Settlement, Valsayn, are calling on TTEC to repair two streetlights that have been broken for over a year. |
BRENDA Julian of Cotton Trace, in Siparia, wants TTEC to immediately repair the streetlight near her house. |
FOR over five weeks, residents of Happy Hill Road in Laventille have not been so happy since they have not had a pipe-borne supply of water in their homes. |
IT has been one week since Virginia Carrington ordered a tank of gas from Ramco Industries Ltd and is yet to receive it. |
RANDY Dhanasar of 98 Heron Crescent, Phase 2, Couva has been without water since February 2. |
PENSIONER Jean Jeremiah of Upper Seventh Avenue, Malick, in the Centre Hill community, has to depend on her son if she wants to make a telephone call. |
IVAN Bagnath of Dow Village, New Settlement, Carlifornia, is a frustrated man because he has been unable to make telephone calls for the last five weeks. |
ARLENE Gyan-Gagadhar is in urgent need of her new machine-readable passport (MRP) to be able to travel to Canada by June. |
Residents of Upper Haig Street, Neckles Drive in Carenage have been without a pipe borne water supply for the past five weeks. |
ANNETTE PHILLIPS wants WASA to supply water to her parents who live on Marie Road, Morvant. |
CHERYL BOSTIC, of Hazel Street in San Juan, has been without a pipe-borne water supply for the past seven weeks, and she is calling on WASA to assist her. |
YVONNE Pantin has complained of a rotted lightpole close to her house at Aboud Circular, Long Circular, St James. |
A frustrated FYZABAD widow wants to know why she is not receiving death benefits from the National Insurance Board, more than a year after her husband died. |
Heeralal Ghinkoo, of Rochard Road in Penal, wants TSTT to restore the telephone service to his home immediately. |
RESIDENTS of Cippy Street in Gasparillo have asked The People’s Hotline to convey their thanks and appreciation to utility WASA after workmen repaired a rupture to an underground water main in the area. |
THE POWER Outlet at the Mon Repos roundabout in San Fernando has no telephone power — that is their telephones suddenly stopped working. |
SHIRLEY RAMPERSAD of Cooper Grange Road in St John’s Village, in south Trinidad, says she has been constantly put on hold by TSTT, when all she wants is for her telephone line to be repaired. |
ANGELA Maharaj of Penal Rock Road, Penal, wants TTEC to immediately repair a streetlight near her home. |
ANAND Bissessarsingh of Upper Cunapo Road, Sangre Grande, wants to know when will he get the use of his telephone land line, which suddenly stopped working in July. |
EILEEN Elliot of San Francique Road, Penal, has been out of touch for the past 18 months because her telephone has not been working. |
Laura Votor is calling on TTEC to repair a broken street light near her home on Wallace Road, Chinapoo Village, Morvant. |
Rosie Rampersad of Mohess Road in Penal is pleading with TSTT to restore the telephone line in her home. |
Merline Fournillier, of Plumbago Avenue, in La Horquetta, is demanding that her telephone line be repaired immediately. |
Niala Ragoo of Mc Bean Village, Couva, is demanding that a street light near her home be repaired immediately. |
A representative of the Community Development Ministry said the ministry would not be able to assist 69-year-old Gean Guerra, who was highlighted in the People’s Paper last week. |
EILEEN Elliot of San Francique Road, Penal, has been out of touch for the past 18 months because her telephone has not been working. |
AMEEKA Boodram, of Upper Cunapo Road, Sangre Grande, has been without telephone service for almost nine months. According to Boodram, the telephone suddenly stopped working. Since then she has made numerous calls to TSTT but nothing has been done to assist her. |
JENELLE Clemant, of Lady Young Road, Morvant, has been without a working land line in her home for almost 18 months. |
Sandra Persad, of Poole Valley Road, Rio Claro, is demanding that a street light near her home be repaired immediately. According to Persad, the street light has not been functioning for almost a year despite several reports to TTEC. |
ALMOST all residents of Phase 7 in La Horquetta, Arima, have not had a working telephone land line since April 2 . |
PARISHIONERS of the Mayo Presbyterian Church in Mayo Village, Williamsville say they are afraid of attending night services because of a malfunctioning street light. According to some parishioners, the street light is located directly in front of the church where they usually park their cars. |
Arlene Mark of Saddle Road, San Juan, is pleading with TSTT to repair her land line. Mark told Newsday’s hotline her phone has not been working for the past four months, and despite several complaints to the State utility, she is still without service. |
Jaglal Samaroo of Irie Village Princes Town is no longer left in the dark whenever night falls. |
For the past eight months residents of Post Office street in Tabaquite have been pleading with TTEC to repair a blown street light in their area. |
Residents of Molipat Trace, St Helena, Piarco, no longer need to rely on the rain for a supply of water. |
Residents of Tabaquite main road, Tabaquite have not had a functioning street light for almost a year. According to the residents, the area never had street lights before, not until April last year when TTEC installed a series of street lights along the main road. |
Residents of Upper Belle Vue, Long Circular no longer have a “flowing river” on their road. |
Delano Seale of Dawn street in St James, will no longer suffer from restless nights because of the loud sounds of water rushing onto the nearby road from a broken water main. |
Toolsie Ramsaran of Cedar Hill, Princes town is pleading with TSTT to repair his land line. The disabled man told Newsday’s Hotline, his phone has not been working for over nine months, and despite several complaints to the State utility, he is still without service. |
Basdeo Ramroop of Harris Village, South Oropouche, no longer has to worry about any damages to her property due to a leak on the Fyzabad main road. In response to a hotline report made on Wednesday April 2, WASA has issued statements confirming the completion of repairs to the leaking main. Their investigations revealed a burst six-inch distributio(...) |
PRINCES TOWN pensioner Jaglal Samaroo is not a happy man. The elderly man contacted The People’s Hotline to complain about TTEC ignoring his pleas for help to have a blown street light changed. |
For almost two months, Ralphie Sampath, of Ralph and Sons Roofing Services, had no means of communication for his business. |
PENSIONER Ramsoondar Boodhan is pleading with TSTT to repair his land line. The elderly man told Hotline his phone has not been working for over five weeks and despite several complaints which he has made to the State utility, he is still without service.
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Kyril Jack of Tumpuna Gardens, Arima, has not had a working telephone line for almost four months. |
Rajchandeo Ramsahai of Garth Road, Princes Town has been without a working telephone line for over two months.
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For two months residents of St Georges Circular Road, Bel-mont, have been waiting to have their malfunctioning street light fixed.
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Carlton Daniel of Broadway, San Fernando, still awaits the lumpsum of money owed him by the Ministry of Social Development. |
RESIDENTS of Mohipat Trace in St Helena, Piarco have been without a regular supply of pipe-borne water for almost a month, despite numerous complaints made to WASA. |
Residents of Simeon Road Petit Valley have been without streetlights since the first week in January. |
Residents of Race Horse Village, Arima have had no working telephone land lines for over a month. |
FOR over a year Marana Mahabir of Esmeralda Road in Williamsville has not had a working telephone line at her home – a major inconvenience to her and her family. |
David Darson of Sancho Branch Road, New Grant, has been without telephone service for almost a month now. |
Pensioner Earnest Cabrera of Rancho Road Palo Seco has been in the dark for almost a year because the street light near his home is non-functional. |
The Ministry of Social Development has responded to reports highlighted by Newsday’s People’s Page as part of their mandate. |
Angeline Ollivierre of Lucien Road, Belmont Valley Road, has been without a working telephone line for over a month now. |
Residents of Parakeete Terrace, Maloney, are no longer subjected to a leaking water main. Following a report made by Newsday’s hotline in January, state utility WASA issued statements saying repairs to the leaking pipeline were completed on Wednesday March 10, 2008. |
Water is flowing once more at La Mango Village. Residents had reported a leak from a WASA main to the People’s Hotline. |
ANNALISA SALICK has been without telephone service for several weeks. |
Residents of Belmont are concerned about a street light located near the Gloster Lodge Moravian Primary School that has not been functioning for over a year. |
After five months Pundit Roopdeo Maharaj is relieved that his telephone service has been restored. |
TRISHA RAMPERSAD of Felicity, Chaguanas says she has spent the past four months living in virtual darkness whenever she ventures outside her home after dark, since the streetlight near her home stopped working last November. |
Ryan Ramkissoon of Sangre Grande has been without a working land line for the past four months. He said that all his bills are up-to-date and despite numerous calls to TSTT nothing has been done. Ramkissoon said a technician was sent in January to investigate the matter. The technician told him it was a cable problem. Nothing has been done since th(...) |
KEN DIAZ of Bon Air Gardens, Arouca says he has been living in fear for almost a year due not only to the high crime in the country but also to a malfunctioning streetlight. He said the light pole is situated directly in front his house and when the sun sets it is impossible to see anything on the road. |
JACQUELINE CHARLES of Ponderosa Heights in San Juan said there was no water in her home for almost two months and she was not the only person in that area experiencing this problem. |
Annalisa Salick has been without telephone service for over a month now. Her phone has not worked since January 15 and she has made numerous complaints to TSTT. However she has gotten little response. |
For over three months, Jean Van Clair of Laventille, has been struggling to make ends meet since she has yet to receive any of her public assistance cheques. |
Bholanath Ramnarine has been without telephone service for over a month now. He said his telephone line was torn down by a passing truck and that he has made numerous complaints to TSTT but nothing has been done. He does not know who else to turn to. When hotline contacted TSTT for comment we were told that they have records of the report and that (...) |
Stephanie Callendar, 46, of 2 Mendoza Drive Phillipine has a problem getting her insurance payout. Callendar told the Newsday that since January 7 the car she drove was in a serious accident. |
PETER CAMPBELL of Febeau Village told The People’s Hotline that he is worried that a rotten tree could fall on top of his workshop and damage it. He says the tree is leaning badly against the wall and every time the wind blows, he can feel the roof “tremble”. |
IN RESPONSE to a report in The People’s Hotline, State utility WASA (Water and Sewerage Authority) said that the reported lack of water at King’s Wharf Fish Market in San Fernando was investigated and it was ascertained that there is currently a daily schedule. |
Residents in Gran Curacaye, Santa Cruz, are now receiving a temporary scheduled supply of water on Thursdays. |
ALVAN CAESAR of Thomas Street in San Juan is faced with an alarming situation. Not only is there a rotten light pole that at anytime could fall on top of his house, he is also faced with the issue of connecting wires from the pole hanging very low to the ground. |
The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has promised to carry out road restoration works on Lady Young Avenue, Morvant. WASA crews were to begin work on the main road on Saturday. |
CYNTHIA CHRYSOSTOM is currently living in fear since the street light located near her Thomasine Street, Laventille home has not been working for quite sometime. To make matters worse, the only light source of the street – light pole number 13, is starting to malfunction. |
RESIDENTS of Tarouba off the Solomon Hochoy Highway have complained that they have been without street lights for a long time. Several residents told The People’s Hotline that the street lights stopped working before Carnival. |
CALLS to The People’s Hotline revealed that TSTT customers in South Trinidad are being plagued by prolonged service disruptions. A worried Zorina Rahim said she has been begging TSTT for help in restoring her mother’s landline service which has been down since July. |
SEVERAL occupants of Building C, Phase II, Powder Magazine in Cocorite are calling on the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) to remove a homeless man who has set up lodgings on the roof of the building. |
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