CL Financial and German partners gave study grants
CL Financial and its German methanol partner, the Ferrostaal consortium, have provided study grants to the children of two of this country’s Prime Ministers, Sunday Express investigations have found.
In addition to providing scholarships to Mickela and Nicola Panday, the daughters of former prime minister and United National Congress leader Basdeo Panday, CL Financial and its German partners also arranged for David Manning, the son of Prime Minister and Political Leader of the People’s National Movement, Patrick Manning to study mechanical engineering at Aachen Polytechnic College in Aachen, Germany.
The Sunday Express understands that the provision of a German education for David Manning followed the divestment of the state-owned methanol company to two German firms, Ferrostaal AG and Helm AG by the Manning government of 1991-1995.
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In this age of easy access to information, how equally easy it has become to service agendas by splicing, cutting and pasting to create what then becomes a work of fiction! The author of this imaginative piece could not even get the name of the institution in Germany right! So much for truth.
What you expect from our leaders, men and women with no dignity,honour,respect. Show me an honest politician and I will show you a pig that flys
Manning wants instant apology from Express
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news1.html
AN ATTORNEY, acting for the political leader of the People’s National Movement (PNM) Prime Minister Patrick Manning, has demanded an apology from the Express newspapers over an article written by Camini Marajh and published on Page 4 of yesterday’s Sunday Express.
In a letter to the editor, attorney Michael Quamina said the article constituted “a very grave libel upon my client” (the Prime Minister), and called for “an immediate and unequivocal public apology” to be published in the Express within 48 hours, an undertaking from the newspaper not to repeat the offending or similar words, and the offer of payment of “a substantial sum in damages” to compensate Manning for the injury to his reputation.
The attorney demanded a response within 24 hours of the letter, warning that failing a prompt response, “I shall be left with no option and without further recourse to you, immediately to initiate such steps as I consider appropriate to vindicate my client’s reputation.”
The attorney’s letter said the accusations made against the Prime Minister in the Sunday Express article, as well as the headlines and captions accompanying the photographs in the article, “are egregiously false in all material respects.”
It added: “The Honourable Prime Minister and his wife were solely responsible for the costs associated with the education of their son David abroad.
“The Honourable Prime Minister and his wife were not put in receipt of any grant, scholarship or any financial arrangement whatsoever, other than accessing loan facilities at a local commercial bank to assist with these costs.”
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news1.html
Manning says story is untrue
The Express, through its attorney, has responded to Mr Manning’s demand for a retraction and is denying liability in connection with the Sunday Express article.
How come only manning fans replied to this?? Howlyboy seems to be so optimistic that he has looked past Mr. Dookeran who is right before his eyes.
He stands for clean politics. Nobody can honestly prove otherwise, we have a chance to elect this good man as prime minister, we are blessed people!
PM Manning sues ‘Express’
Saturday, November 3rd 2007
Five days after he issued a 24-hour deadline to apologise for alleged defamatory statements made against him, Prime Minister Patrick Manning has sued the Express newspaper for libel.
What do we call clean? Perhaps this is a case of the least of the 3 evils. If one wants to stand clean in the eyes of john public, one will do so by showing the integrity of his/her chosen candidates as being unblemished from all the corruptions the others are accused of. Why have the likes of S. Baksh, who is accused of becoming a millionaire overnight and of having cocaine stashed in his water tank while he was, at that time, a member of the infamous UNC party? There is another whose name evades me right now.
One could tell that this is a C O P supporter but I am affiliated with none of the 4 contesting Parties.
My index shall remain virgin to the indelible red ink until pigs know how to fly. (^_^)
I shall correct myself when I said, “The least of the 3 evils.’ What I meant to say was “the least of the 4 evils.”
1. PNM
2. UNC Alliance
3. COP
4. DLP (Tobago)
We tend to overlook our beloved sister isle which has in time past proven to be the deciding factor. I guess the NEW CHANGE to 41 seats instead of 36, is an attempt to avoid this from happening another time.
Through my contacts, I arranged for a Saudi Arabian female poet, to visit schools and colleges in the Greater Houston area, USA. This was three years ago. I was not the only one involved in her tour,but the initial contact was made at my home. I frequently send information on scholarship grants,available in the USA to people in trinidad and Tobago, these include library grants and specific scholarship information for non-white students.
Am I corrupt? If I was, I would not be the poor church mouse I am.
Helping other people by providing information and contacts is not corrupt. Ever newspaper in TnT has been the beneficiary of my forwarding to people on their staff, information that I think would be beneficial to TnT’s people.
If I decided to come home to live, and got a senior citizen bus pass to ride all over the place, some papers would make that a case for corruption. Get real. The world is still run by conversations between people with information, and those who could benefit from it.