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Uff falls down
Posted: Sunday, September 6, 2009
Freed Coard sets sights on Jamaica
Twenty-six years after he was jailed for murdering then prime minister and colleague, Maurice Bishop, the deputy prime minister of the short-lived People's Revolutionary Government (PRG), Bernard Coard walked to freedom after Governor General Carlyle Glean Sr accepted the advice to remit the remainder of his sentence.
Relatives cheer as 7 leave prison free men
Convicted in deaths of Maurice Bishop, 10 others
Dookeran calls for removal of VAT from T&TEC bills
Doubts over lower budget due to Govt spending
Target high income earners
Targeting the budget deficit at low-income earners and the social safety net will not be enough to get the economy going, say financial analysts.
Seepersad-Bachan: Projected income will shrink
The Government's plan to attract investors in the energy sector will not be realised until the global credit crunch has improved.
PM: Back to the drawing board for Integrity Commission
Almost four months after the unravelling of the Integrity Commission which witnessed the resignation of its five members over the space of eleven days, Prime Minister Patrick Manning, continuing his pitch for constitutional reform, says Government has to "go back to the drawing board" if the nation is to have an effective Commission.
Uff falls down
After costing more than $3 million, enquiry into UDeCOTT illegal
They said this was because according to the Commission of Enquiry Act of 1982, the enquiry was supposed to have been published in the Trinidad and Tobago Gazette (or gazetted) and this was never done.
Uff inquiry postponed until further notice
THE HEARINGS of the fourth and final phase of the Uff Commission of Inquiry into Udecott, which was expected to start tomorrow, was yesterday adjourned "until further notice" by its chairman Professor John Uff.
$368M family affair takes centre stage
CARL KHAN, the ex-husband of Mrs Sherrine Hart, the wife of Udecott executive chairman Calder Hart, is expected to take the stand this week to be cross-examined over evidence he has lodge in the inquiry linking the Hart family to a company Udecott awarded a $368 million contract to.
Dumas: Awards are politically driven
They aren't national awards.
Answer me, oh my friend
There is a whole lot to be said about the awards system, much of which has already been ventilated. The issue I found most amusing was the brouhaha over Kamal "Charch" Mohammed being nominated for the nation's highest award, but being denied it by those on high.
$.25M in ganja found on cement tug boat
THERE was drama on the seas Friday night just off the Claxton Bay coast when Coast Guard and police officers boarded a vessel transporting clinker from Jamaica to Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) and seized two crocus bags of marijuana. The Tug boat Seven Mako, has since been impounded at the TCL jetty under police guard. The captain of the vessel who is from Nicaragua was arrested and up to yesterday incarcerated at a police station.
Ramjack promises help for Debe family
Members of Parliament Jack Warner (Chaguanas West) and Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj (Tabaquite) on Friday pledged their assistance to Lillya Samaroo, 32, and her daughter Maltie, 18, who have been living in swampy conditions at their humble shack at Seuradge Trace, Debe.
Death of the innocents
ELEVEN children have died in road fatalities for the year. Four were two years and under and three of the four were passengers in a vehicle.
Pan in danger
Raoul Pantin interviews Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe
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