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The Closure of Caroni (1975) Limited

Published on May 19, 2013 in Food, General T&T, Indian, Labour, Media, Opposition Party, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics and UNC. 2 Comments Tags: Anand Ramlogan, Attorney General, Basdeo Panday, Caroni Ltd, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Politics, T&T Govt, UNC.

Politics before food

Sugar and Energy Festival Street Parade – October 09, 2005

By Andre Bagoo
May 18 2013 – newsday.co.tt

THE CLOSURE of Caroni (1975) Limited and consequent devastating impact on the agriculture sector and TT’s food security, may be directly linked to political considerations surrounding the then PNM government’s fear of a repeat of the 18-18 general election deadlock of 2001, Tourism Minister Stephen Cadiz said yesterday.
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Cut CAL to the bone

Published on May 19, 2013 in Business, Caribbean, Finance, General T&T, Media, People's Partnership and Politics. 4 Comments Tags: Abuse, CAL, Politics, Raffique Shah.

By Raffique Shah
May 18, 2013

IF ANYONE can produce proof that there was a time when this country’s state-owned national airline, in whatever incarnation, made a real profit over a sustained period, meaning at least one year, I would surrender my sanity and vote in the next election. I feel safely insulated from having to do something so unpalatable because I know that in the post-Independence history of BWIA, now CAL, taxpayers who may have never travelled on an aircraft have paid dearly to keep the airline afloat. In the process, they have funded generations of joy riders who are stricken with a stratospheric strain of “gas brains”, and affliction I call “plane brains”.
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Assault on Press Freedom

Published on May 15, 2013 in General T&T, Law, Media, People's Partnership, Politics and UNC. 3 Comments Tags: George Alleyne, T&T Govt.

By George Alleyne
May 15, 2013 – newsday.co.tt

The People’s Partnership Government’s deliberate policy of offering jobs to and the eventual hiring of several key members of the media, along with the dangling of additional employment prospects to yet other media practitioners, has been a not too subtle assault on Press freedom.
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Health Minister Dr. Fuad Khan: Sextuplets’ parents ungrateful

Published on May 10, 2013 in Complaints, General T&T, Health, Media, People's Partnership and Politics. 29 Comments Tags: Fuad Khan, Politics, Sextuplets, T&T Govt.

‘UNGRATEFUL’

By Anna Ramdass
May 09, 2013

The sextuplets’ parents are ungrateful and owe the Government, the Prime Minister and the taxpayers of this country a “thank you” for all that was done to ensure that mother and babies had the best care possible, Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan said yesterday.

The March 4 birth of the sextuplets to parents Petra Lee Foon, a teacher, and Kieron Cummings, a bank employee, was a first for Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean.
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Havelange quits Fifa

Published on May 1, 2013 in General T&T, Media, Politics, Sports and UNC. 0 Comments Tags: Abuse, FIFA, Jack Warner, Joao Havelange, Sepp Blatter, T&T Govt.

Jack Warner, Sepp Blatter and Dr. Joao Havelange at the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation’s Centennial Dinner at the Dr. Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence, Macaya on September 05, 2008

Wednesday, May 1 2013
newsday.co.tt

JACK WARNER’S close friend Dr Joao Havelange, 96, in whose honour the Centre of Excellence in Macoya was named, resigned in disgrace after a Fifa ethics committee found that Havelange — a former Fifa President — had taken bribes.
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Minister Suruj Rambachan says he is not a racist

Published on April 30, 2013 in General T&T, Media, People's Partnership, Politics, Race and Identity, Racism Watch and UNC. 33 Comments Tags: Abuse, African, Jack Warner, Politics, Suruj Rambachan, T&T Govt.

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A NEW ERA BEGINS

Published on April 23, 2013 in General T&T, Media, Opposition Party, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics, Security and UNC. 18 Comments Tags: Jack Warner, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Politics, T&T Govt, UNC.

By Cecily Asson and Andre Bagoo Tuesday,
April 23 2013 – www.newsday.co.tt

“DON’T cry for Jack Warner…you haven’t seen the end of Jack Warner yet.”

These were the words of consolation Warner shared with executive members and regular staffers of his Chaguanas West constituency office, following his resignation as chairman of the United National Congress (UNC) and as National Security Minister.
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Jack Warner Has Resigned

Published on April 21, 2013 in corruption, General T&T, Law, Media, Money Laundering, Opposition Party, People's Partnership, PNM and Politics. 37 Comments Tags: Abuse, CONCACAF, Crime in T&T, Emmanuel George, Jack Warner, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, T&T Govt.

Minister of National Security Jack Warner has resigned and Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has accepted his resignation.

Works Minister Emmanuel George is to be appointed interim National Security Minister.
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Driver in accident may walk as Sea Lots probe botched

Published on April 11, 2013 in Court, Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Media and Police. 12 Comments Tags: Abuse, Crime in T&T, Police.

By Dr Sheila Rampersad
April 11, 2013 – www.guardian.co.tt

What might have been an open-and-shut case against a police officer, who ploughed into six residents of Sea Lots along the Beetham Highway, Port-of-Spain, on February 24, has turned into a lengthy and muddled investigation. Three people died and three others were injured in the crash, which occurred along the westbound lane of the highway.

The T&T Guardian was reliably informed that a breathalyser test, which measures blood alcohol level, was administered at 2.47 pm on the day of the fatal collision, almost six hours after the incident. It was administered at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital by WPC Marcia Lopez, a trained breath analysis technician assigned to Besson Street Police Station.
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Lecturer wants children in East PoS tested for lead poisoning

Published on April 7, 2013 in Environment, General T&T, Health and Media. 4 Comments Tags: Abuse, Disaster, Laventille, Newsday.

By Shereen Ali Sunday,
April 7 2013 – newsday.co.tt

A part-time lecturer in the Department of Behavioural Sciences at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine is calling for the authorities to test children living in East Port-of-Spain for lead poisoning.

Lecturer Valentine Smith’s call is based on his contention that there may be environmental and biological factors among the causes for violence and youth delinquency in this area.
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