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NO NEW TAXES Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has assured that there will be no new taxes in the 2010/2011 national budget to be delivered by Finance Minister Winston Dookeran on Wednesday.
PM promises tax holiday PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday delivered early Budget gifts to the nation by revealing that the 2010/2011 fiscal package will contain no new taxes and will see the repeal of the property tax and a tax holiday.
What are your policies? A former minister in the Ministry of Finance has questioned the failure of the current administration to outline new economic policies
...Pension remains at age 65 The People's Partnership never promised to reduce the pensionable age to 60, said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar adding that what Government is looking at is increasing the retirement age from 60 to 65.
Cabrera: Minimum wage must be $20 an hour President of the Bankers, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU) Vincent Cabrera says the trade union still stands behind its $20 an hour minimum wage proposal.
Resurrecting Millette drainage plan In one of the great ironies of bureaucracy, the drainage plan created by the late Dr Emru Millette close to three decades ago is being actively considered as a path to solutions for the recurrent flooding in Trinidad and Tobago.
Williams calls for support for incoming CoP ACTING POLICE Commissioner Stephen Williams has appealed to senior and junior police officers to give full support and encouragement to Canadian Wayne Gibbs who arrives here later this month to take up the position of Commissioner of Police.
Infrared pistol found in house AN INFRARED 9 mm pistol, a shotgun and 52 rounds of ammunition were found at the house of a man and his wife on Saturday. The couple are expected to face a Siparia magistrate today.
Machine guns found in mangrove TWO sub-machine guns, a rifle and a pistol were found by the police in the mangrove near the Beetham Landfill between Friday night and Saturday.
...Police probe Penal murders INVESTIGATORS believe security cameras installed at a Penal business place could assist in solving the murders of off- shore worker Gary Shah, 35 and his nephew Anderson Edmund, 21, whose bullet riddled bodies were found in a gold Mazda 323 motor car in Penal yesterday. The cameras are installed on a building near the murder scene.
Trini in sex scandal with Canadian judge TRINIDADIAN Alexander Chapman, 44, was last week embroiled in controversy after it emerged that he filed a complaint against a Canadian judge in Manitoba, Canada, which contained a series of nude photographs.
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