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FULL BLOW FOR BASDEO PANDAY
Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
BREAKING NEWS:
No Bail for Basdeo Panday Today
Lawyers for convicted Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday were at the Port-of-Spain High Court today, attempting to get bail for Mr. Panday while they appeal the decision handed down yesterday by Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls. The incarcerated former Prime Minister has not been granted bail.
Basdeo Panday on his way to court this morning.
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Basdeo Panday Guilty As Charged
It is the first time in the history of Trinidad and Tobago that a former Prime Minister has been found guilty of criminal activity and sentenced for a breach of the law.
UNC shock at ruling
THE crestfallen faces of UNC’s top brass — deputy political leaders — Wade Mark, Jack Warner, vice-chairman Vasant Bharath, CEO Tim Gopeesingh, MP Roodal Moonilal told the same story. The Opposition Leader was guilty, fined and jailed.
End of the political road for Bas
BASDEO PANDAY’S long term as Opposition Leader has come to a tragic end. According to an eminent constitutional scholar, the minute Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls delivered a two-year prison term, Panday ceased to hold the office of Opposition Leader.
Aftermath of Panday jailing
CHAOS and confusion broke out at the UNC rally after the Executive informed Political Leader Winston Dookeran that he would not be allowed to speak. Former AG Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, a non-member was embraced by Executive members as he entered Rienzi Complex in Couva. Dookeran was not even acknowledged.
Former PM gets maximum corruption sentence
Former prime minister and UNC chairman Basdeo Panday spent the first night of his 41 years in public life as a convicted prisoner following his sentencing yesterday.
Basdeo Panday spends first night in infirmary
Former prime minister Basdeo Panday arrived at the Maximum Security Prison, Golden Grove, around 3 p.m. yesterday. After he was processed and given his inmate uniform, a blue suit, Panday was examined by the prison medic.
Ryan: Political dead end for Bas
POLITICAL analyst Professor Selwyn Ryan said yesterday that Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday's effective days as a politician have come to an end.
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