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Off-duty policeman kills bandit
Posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Tesheira: T&T has 13 months' import cover
Despite a decline in foreign reserves in the first half of the year, Trinidad and Tobago extended its foreign reserves import cover from 10 months to more than a year, says Finance Minister Karen Tesheira.

PM on Privy Council: 'Is it not time to move away?'
Prime Minister Patrick Manning has argued that this country needs the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final appellate court in order to resume hangings.

Bas: Let referendum decide

Manning being very flippant, says Dookeran

PM: Executive President can build cabinet of experts

Cruise ships return to help with CHOGM
Government has once again turned to cruise ships, meeting specialists Landry & Kling—the first to use floating hotels for global events—to assist in the staging of the bi-annual Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in November.

Man Takes His Own Life
When his plea for a reconciliation fell on deaf ears, insurance clerk Gary Balkaran attacked his wife Nadine on Monday inside the New India Assurance Company office in Rio Claro, where they both worked. He bound and gagged her with duct tape, then beat and choked her.

Bandit tackled by mom
A mother who found a gunman outside her home intent on robbing and killing, saved herself and her teenage daughters on Monday.

Pundit: Politicians playing games with kids' lives
Tears from friends, relatives and strangers alike, flowed freely as young Sachin Singh who was killed in last Saturday's accident was given an almost royal send off from his home yesterday at Berridge Trace, South Oropouche.

Off-duty policeman kills bandit
FOR THE SECOND time in just over a month, a bandit has been killed by an off-duty police officer, this time in Barataria and in full view of his (the officer's) ten-year-old son.

...Cop kills bandit in robbery attempt

Coalitions too unstable
Prime Minister Patrick Manning says proportional representation will not be endorsed as an electoral model in Trinidad and Tobago within the draft working document on constitutional reform.

Panday disagrees with Manning
Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday says he disagrees with Prime Minister Patrick Manning's statement that proportional representation would lead to racial disharmony.

Families receive keys to new Oropune homes

Borough blocks Bas
The Chaguanas Borough Corporation yesterday voted to ban political party business from being conducted at any office belonging to the Corporation.

Saith fails to break TSTT, CWU stalemate

We need Jack's money
Displaced workers of the Chaguanas Borough Corporation remain hopeful they will at least get two months pay to help pay their bills and care for their families, as Government ponders whether to give the green light for them to receive a $309,000 donation from Chaguanas West MP, Jack Warner.

Warner's legal team meets today
CHAGUANAS WEST MP Jack Warner will meet with his legal team today to plan his legal actions against Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday and the national executive of the United National Congress (UNC).

Panday's lawyer now in Jack's corner
British Queen's Counsel, Alan Newman, who represented Basdeo Panday at his trial on three charges of failing to declare his London bank account to the Integrity Commission in 2006, is now in the corner of Chaguanas West MP, Jack Warner, preparing to file a slander writ against Panday.

Jack: It pains me to take action
Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner has said it pains him to take Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday to court, but he (Panday) has left him no choice.

Rudi wanted to lead PNM

Silence on boating accident
POLICE have not yet released the identity of the soldier nor indicated if he faces a criminal charge after an unregistered 28-foot pirogue, which he was steering, ploughed into a kayak and seriously injured two American citizens and their Trinidad relative in Chaguaramas over the weekend.

...father of boating victim wants answers from probe

Maloney man shot dead; another critical



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