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Rowley: Plot to cover up section 34

Published on May 21, 2013 in Crime in T&T, General T&T, Law, Opposition Party, People's Partnership, Police, Politics, Security and UNC. 15 Comments Tags: Abuse, Anand Ramlogan, Attorney General, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Section 34, T&T Govt.

Plot to cover up section 34

By Gail Alexander
May 21, 2013 – guardian.co.tt

Opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley wants the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Integrity Commission to probe e-mails purportedly bearing the names of frontline government officials who allegedly wanted to tap the DPP’s phone after the Section 34 furore. Rowley also claimed the e-mails revealed moves to shift the DPP to the judiciary and further discussed intended intimidation of a T&T Guardian reporter who broke the Section 34 story last September.
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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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Suffering in silence

Published on May 12, 2013 in Entertainment and General T&T. 3 Comments Tags: Abuse, Raffique Shah.

By Raffique Shah
May 12, 2013

SHE had first contacted me a year ago, via a circuitous route, to relate a problem she faced at her Diamond Vale home and to see if I could offer any advice. Last week, the pensioner called again. Her problem remained unsolved. If anything, its impact on her health has worsened, and she had tried all avenues I had suggested, without success.
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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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Massacre of the moral minority

Published on April 28, 2013 in corruption, General T&T, Law, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics and UNC. 9 Comments Tags: Abuse, Jack Warner, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Politics, T&T Govt, USA.

By Raffique Shah
April 28, 2013

The issue here is not Jack Warner’s amoral attitude, his disdain for integrity in the conduct of public affairs. We have long established that Warner does not conform to the rules of the engagement, be it campaigning in an election, running a ministry or navigating the murky waters of global football. We expect no better from him.
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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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Analysts put the Warner ball in PM’s court

Published on April 20, 2013 in General T&T, International, Law, Money Laundering, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics, Security, Sports and UNC. 18 Comments Tags: Abuse, FIFA, Jack Warner, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Keith Rowley, T&T Govt.

By Yvonne Baboolal
April 20, 2013 – guardian.co.tt

Political scientists/analysts are divided on the issue of whether Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar should ask National Security Minister Jack Warner to step down based only on allegations in the media, especially in media which have lost credibility with the Government. Some said they did not expect the PM to ask Warner to step down based only on allegations in the media.
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Margaret Thatcher: Sinner or Saint

Published on April 14, 2013 in Africa, England, General T&T, International and Protest. 7 Comments Tags: Abuse, Margaret Thatcher, Raffique Shah.

By Raffique Shah
April 14, 2013

SPEAK no ill of the dead, they say. It is an Omertá-like Mafiosi code that binds hypocrites international, that global brotherhood sworn to covering up the dastardly sins of leaders like Margaret Thatcher, who are lionised in life and eulogised in death, thus distorting history to the extent that the truth be buried forever.
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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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