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PM on $2m flag: Error was made One day after Sport Minister Gary Hunt admitted to making an error in the construction of a $2 million national flag, his boss, Prime Minister Patrick Manning, says the Government "will try to do better in the future."
'It matters not' PRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning yesterday said, "it matters not", what the error was which caused the State, through the Ministry of Sport, to spend TT$2 million on the flag at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port-of-Spain.
Warner tells Hunt to quit UNC chairman and FIFA vice-president Jack Warner yesterday called on Sports Minister Gary Hunt to resign as minister in the face of his (Hunt) belated admission to errors in the controversial $2 million heritage flag at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
Hunt Must Go! $2 million flag scandal PRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning has thrown his full support behind Sport Minister, Gary Hunt, in the wake of his admittance that mistakes were made during the process for the erection of the $2 million flag at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
Go, Mr Hunt, go With his national address on Sunday, Mr Hunt obviously hoped to close an especially unsavoury chapter nearly four months after it opened, to the continuing discredit of the Manning administration. He wagered that he could confess his sin, call it a collective 'misstep'' of the Sports Company, and move on.
...'No plans to resign' Fresh from his address to the nation, embattled Sport Minister Gary Hunt visited a school in Moruga yesterday, but brushed off calls for him to resign over the $2 million flag he commissioned at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
$3,500 for drunk driving A FINE of $3,500 or a jail term of nine months was handed down to a man yesterday. While returning from the Chutney Brass show at Guaracara Park in Marabella on Sunday, the man was stopped by police who administered the breathalyser test, which he failed.
UNC's Couva North abandons Panday Members of the United National Congress' (UNC) Couva North constituency executive have abandoned their MP—defeated UNC political leader Basdeo Panday.
Couva North executive members quit Another blow for Panday... Just two weeks after his defeat at the United National Congress internal election, Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday was dealt another major political blow yesterday, with the resignation of all members of his Couva North executive.
Cabinet approves new postal code proposal A new postal code system is to be put in place to ensure the better delivery of your mail, reduce the response time of the police and firefighters in finding your home and help assist in land allocation at cost of almost half a million dollars.
PM talks again of plot to kill him Prime Minister Patrick Manning said last night he had heard that if he visited Laventille again, as he had done yesterday, an attempt would be made on his life.
Kamla: Bill to privatise TTRA The Trinidad and Tobago Revenue Authority bill would privatise core functions of government and therefore requires a higher than three/fifths majority, UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar stated yesterday.
$240,000 for new DMRC chain THE Diego Martin Regional Corporation (DMRC) yesterday collected an insurance cheque to be cashed and the money used to purchase a replacement gold ceremonial chain, worn by the corporation’s chairman, which was stolen in January.
Jackson's ex-doctor charged Dr Conrad Murray was bailed for US$75,000 after pleading not guilty to "unlawfully, and without malice, killing Michael Joseph Jackson."
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