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Rowley: Govt can save Enquiry
Posted: Monday, September 7, 2009
Uff inquiry postponed until further notice
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Temperatures soar
Keep yourselves hydrated. This is the advice from acting director of the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorologist Services, Emmanuel Mulchan, to the public, in light of the soaring temperatures the country has recently been experiencing. The Piarco Met Office, Mulchan told the Express, recorded a maximum temperature of 34 degrees Celsius on Friday and Saturday. Mulchan explained that the temperature recorded is actually recorded in the shade, so the temperature in other parts of the country could be anywhere between three and four degrees higher.
AG Bids to Save Uff Inquiry
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Lay bill in House today
Diego Martin West MP Dr Keith Rowley is calling on the Government to act swiftly to save the Uff Commission of Enquiry into the Construction Sector.
Rowley: Govt can save Enquiry
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Transparency demands answers on Uff inquiry
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'...Courts will still have to decide on enquiry's legality'
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Housing for diplomats costs millions
Government has entered into a purchase agreement to buy a building in Toronto, Canada, to house staff of the T&T Consulate.
Karen: No big spending
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Seepersad-Bachan: Don't burden people with higher fuel prices
TTUTA wants better salaries
Enill: PM decides polls
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Sultan to visit T&T next month
Sultan NASIR al-Muhammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of the oil-rich Middle Eastern nation of Kuwait, is due to pay an official state visit to Trinidad and Tobago next month.
Mystery remains over six fiery deaths
Investigators are yet to determine what caused a fire in which two adults and four children died in Couva on August 22.
Planning life support for ailing pan administration
Nine charges: Corporal with exhibits at home on $.72m bail
The police officer in whose home a quantity of courtroom exhibits were allegedly found has been granted $720,000 bail by a Justice of the Peace.
Corporal in court today
An acting police corporal was arrested yesterday for the second time in relation to the discovery of arms, ammunition and drugs at the St Joseph Police Station on August 8.
Sailor crashes into Coast Guard vessel
A MAN who was piloting his pirogue, while he attempted to take a picture of the moon, crashed into a Coast Guard vessel on Saturday night.
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