Newsday Editorial September 30 2009 – newsday.co.tt ATTORNEY GENERAL (AG) John Jeremie did not exactly admit it on Monday in the Senate, but in our view he seemed to be trying to make a case for debt-forgiveness for the half-million dollars owed by Prime Minister Patrick Manning as unpaid legal costs to the State. Mr … Continue reading PM’s legal debts
By Andre Bagoo June 17, 2009 – newsday.co.tt www.trinidadandtobagonews.com HIGH COURT Judge Justice Mira Dean-Armorer yesterday ruled the decision of the Environmental Management Authority (EMA) to grant approval for construction of the Alutrint smelter plant in La Brea was illegal and made in an “outrageous”, “irrational” and “procedurally irregular” manner. Delivering judgment in a series … Continue reading EMA approval for smelter ‘illegal’
PM wrong to take part By Ria Taitt Political Editor trinidadexpress.com President of the Law Association, Senior Counsel Martin Daly, yesterday criticised Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s participation in a ‘march’ last Friday at Woodford Square, Port of Spain. Daly raised the question of whether the Prime Minister had committed a criminal offence.
By Sean Douglas and Andre Bagoo Wednesday, June 25 2008 THE Law Association yesterday questioned the legality of the “lock down” of Richplain by the Defence Force who set up camp in the Diego Martin community after the Father’s Day murder of Corporal Ancil Wallace and his best friend Noel Charles. Soldiers pitched a camp … Continue reading Richplain lockdown illegal
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe June 21, 2025 In his Youth Rally address on August 30, 1962, one day before Independence Day, Eric Williams declared: “I have given to the nation as its watchwords, Discipline, Production, Tolerance.” These words were delivered to the youths but they applied equally to every citizen of the nation. It … Continue reading An indisciplined nation
By Raffique Shah May 03, 2025 I would be the happiest person in post-election Trinidad if, three months from now, the new Prime Minister achieves 50% of her goals in any one of her objectives after scoring an emphatic win over the PNM. If, in my gaiety, I make no mention of the occasion that … Continue reading Dump the Privy Council
By Selwyn R. Cudjoe February 22, 2025 On Saturday last weekend, we celebrated the life of Joseph Sam Phillip, a districker, at the Good Shepherd Anglican Church, Tunapuna, at which Archdeacon Kenly Baldeo, another districker, presided. Good Shepherd, one of the oldest edifices in Tunapuna, was consecrated in 1866. Sam was an outstanding districker and … Continue reading Serve in order to lead
By Raffique Shah February 22, 2025 Now more than ever, I am convinced that this society is so steeped in corrupt practices that no one can claim to not know what has been happening for 50-60, whatever, years. So confident am I in laying this charge of universal theft, banditry, if my editors will only … Continue reading Of crime and cowards
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe January 25, 2025 A United National Congress victory in the forthcoming election is the necessary antidote to heal the fissures that have erupted in the PNM’s political structure. Only a UNC victory can counteract the fiendish act of PNM’s hierarchy of selling the party to the highest financial bidders. This … Continue reading UNC’s victory: the necessary antidote to PNM’s revival
By Raffique Shah December 04, 2024 I expect a bruising political year ahead of us as general election 2025 looms large. The Opposition United National Congress (UNC) has never really stopped campaigning since their loss in 2015. The margins of victory—the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) polled in 2015 and 2020—were close enough to keep … Continue reading No need for wars