Tag Archive for 'T&T Govt'

Gordon’s Big Error

Published on June 16, 2013 in Complaints, General T&T, Integrity Commission, Media, People's Partnership, PNM and Politics. 1 Comment Tags: Anand Ramlogan, Attorney General, Keith Rowley, Ken Gordon, Newsday, Politics, T&T Govt.

By Andre Bagoo
June 16 2013 – newsday.co.tt

THE ACTIONS of the chairman of the Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon in holding a private meeting at his Glencoe home with Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley was a serious error of judgment which has now compromised the Commission as well as the Office of the President, senior political analyst Dr Hamid Ghany said yesterday.

Ghany said the meeting, held on May 15 at the chairman’s resident at Newbury Hill, Glencoe, displayed “poor judgment” on the part of Gordon and now risks disrupting the appointment process which is currently being undertaken by President Anthony Carmona.
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Yes, Prime Minister, a fiasco

Published on June 13, 2013 in corruption, Finance, General T&T, Media, Opposition Party, People's Partnership, PNM and Politics. 6 Comments Tags: Abuse, Jack Warner, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Politics, T&T Govt, Winford James.

By Winford James
June 12, 2013 – trinidadexpress.com

NEVER mind Jack Warner’s denial, Prime Minister, it is a fiasco. Warner is focused on the rest of the Cabinet blaming him for it, despite acknowledging, in his usual convenient way, the doctrine of cabinet responsibility, but that is a red herring: it is still a fiasco. You could have said “bacchanal’’, “disaster’’, “catastrophe’’, “debacle’’, “shambles’’, “farce’’, “mess’’, “foul-up’’, or “screw-up’’. Yes, “screw-up’’. Everybody knows your government has been screwing up—monthly, weekly—but I’ll take the Italian word and its conservative figurative meaning: “failure in a performance’’.
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$49M rip-off

Published on June 13, 2013 in corruption, General T&T, Media, Opposition Party, People's Partnership, PNM and Politics. 6 Comments Tags: Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Keith Rowley, Newsday, Politics, T&T Govt.

By Clint Chan Tack
June 13, 2013 – newsday.co.tt

OPPOSITION Leader Dr Keith Rowley yesterday accused Government of using last year’s flooding in Diego Martin as a smokescreen to award millions of dollars worth of contracts to its friends. Rowley, who is also Diego Martin West MP, made this charge as he debunked the earlier contribution of Finance Minister Larry Howai during debate on the Finance (Supplementary Appropriation) (Financial Year 2013) Bill 2013 in the House of Representatives.
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No to jungle justice

Published on June 2, 2013 in General T&T, Law, Opposition Party, Parliament, People's Partnership, PNM and Politics. 30 Comments Tags: Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Keith Rowley, Politics, Privileges Committee, Raffique Shah, T&T Govt, Wade Mark.

By Raffique Shah
June 01, 2013

AT all times, human beings must be able to distinguish right from wrong; it is what differentiates us from other life-species. At all times, too, man must have the fortitude to stand up for what is right, to speak out against injustice, whatever the consequences he may face for his outspokenness. Today I feel compelled to make such stand on an issue that many may deem unimportant, and for which I risk being condemned.
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A matter of trust

Published on May 26, 2013 in corruption, General T&T, Law, Opposition Party, Parliament, People's Partnership, PNM, Police, Politics and Security. 30 Comments Tags: Abuse, Anand Ramlogan, Attorney General, Jack Warner, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Keith Rowley, Politics, Raffique Shah, T&T Govt.

By Raffique Shah
May 26, 2013

I CANNOT quite figure out why so many people are shocked by Keith Rowley’s “revelations” in Parliament last Monday, or alarmed that the string of e-mails he read into Hansard; at first blush, appears to be as bogus as Clifton De Coteau’s black mop. Parliament has long degenerated into a theatre of the absurd, a forum for dishonourable members to slander and scandalise each other, an arena in which targeted citizens are crucified before hordes of reality-television viewers, a fate far worse than that which Jesus Christ is said to have suffered however many centuries ago.
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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. 26 Comments Tags: Abuse, Anand Ramlogan, Attorney General, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Keith Rowley, 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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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. 3 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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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. 30 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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