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CJ slams draft Constitution
Posted: Thursday, September 17, 2009
Property Tax Can Off-Set $7bn Budget Deficit
Chief Justice Archie opens new law term
Following is the full text of the address by Chief Justice Ivor Archie at the opening of the 2009/2010 Law Term at the Convocation Hall...
'A damn good speech'
Chief Justice Ivor Archie's address at the opening of the 2009-2010 law term will be remembered for his eloquence and diligence as the head of the Judiciary.
CJ slams draft Constitution
CJ will have no control
In a powerful speech which marked the opening of the 2009/2010 law term at the Convocation Hall, at the Hall of Justice, Port-of-Spain yesterday, Archie detailed several worrying clauses in the present draft constitution, and summed it up with a quotation by an anonymous Quaker.
...Funds to Judiciary cut: 'We'll do the best we can'
Who will act as DPP?
There is yet to be any official statement or release on who will act as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Budget passes to the sound of music
DESPITE an impromptu musical interlude which interrupted its 10 am sitting, the House of Representatives yesterday passed the $44 billion Budget for 2010 at 1.48 pm.
'Taxes callous, heartless'
ST Augustine MP Vasant Bharath hit the raft of tax-hikes proposed in the Budget as "callous and heartless", especially for the poor, as he spoke in the Lower House on the orders to impose these increases.
Karen: Low-income property owners to get relief
Property owners on a fixed income will receive a waiver or a reduction in the proposed increased property taxes once they can prove to the Board of Inland Revenue or its replacement, the Trinidad and Tobago Revenue Authority, they are in an impoverished financial position.
UNC slams 'unhealthy' increases
WASA rates to increase
Consumers can expect an increase in water rates after the Regulated Industries Commission (RIC) completes its review of WASA's current rates, Harjinder Atwal, Executive Director of the RIC warned yesterday.
Keep Integrity Commission
WE were astounded and appalled by Prime Minister Patrick Manning's virtual proposal to amend/abolish the Integrity Commission, which is the country's main watchdog against corrupt enrichment by public officials such as politicians.
Rowley: Imbert and I no longer stand for the same things
Warner shares out breath testers
Warner had promised to give each MP and members of the media their own breathalysers during his contribution to the Lower House's 2009/2010 Budget debate late Monday night. He said he would do this to speed up the long-awaited proclamation of breathalyser legislation passed two years ago.
Swine flu shuts Woodbrook school
Legally it does not exist
Former justice of appeal on Bakr affidavit:
Justice Rajendra Narine was wrong to have ordered that the controversial affidavit of Jamaat-al-Muslimeen head, Yasin Abu Bakr, be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for investigation, says former Justice of the Appeal Court Jean Permanand.
Eyewitness identifies two men killed by police
An investigating officer into Sunday's killing at the La Cabana Bar in Curepe reportedly took an eyewitness to the Forensic Science Centre yesterday where the bodies of Tyrone "Spoon" Browne and Hamza "Lovell" Friday of Second Caledonia, Morvant, were pointed out as being the shooters involved in the Sunday's massacre...
Philbert visits pensioner's home
COMMISSIONER of Police, James Philbert yesterday visited the elderly person at Granado Street, Sawmill Avenue, Barataria, whose home was wrecked on Tuesday, after an alleged shootout with two persons, whom officers reportedly killed.
Former MP Eulalie James robbed at Laventille home
FORMER Laventille West member of parliament, Eulalie James, was yesterday robbed of $30,000 worth of cash and jewelry while at her St John's Street, Laventille home.
...Former MP robbed
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