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Let's talk, Archie
Posted: Saturday, September 19, 2009
Mrs. Patricia Robinson to be buried in Tobago
Interment will take place on Monday 21st September at the St. Joseph R.C. Church, Scarborough at 11.30 a.m. then to the Scarborough Methodist Cemetery.
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CJ: If it ain't broke don't fix it
All for Swift Justice
Govt responds to CJ's concerns on constitutional reform
Let's talk, Archie
Government yesterday welcomed Chief Justice Ivor Archie's recent remarks about the functioning of the Judiciary and invited him to meet to discuss constitutional reform.
Let's talk, Mr CJ
Jack, Dookeran back Chief Justice
Panday on CJ: Rise up and revolt!
This is the call made by Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday to the people of this country yesterday, as he stressed that Government's "combative" approach to the Chief Justice's criticisms of the draft constitution signals serious trouble ahead.
Panday: No need for Justice Ministry
Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday yesterday hit the Government for tinkering with the present Constitution to intrude onto the Judiciary, but said he wanted a wholesale change to the laws to better establish a separation of powers than now exists.
PM's Veto Unfathomable
Prime Minister Patrick Manning's veto of Carla Brown-Antoine for the post of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Government's “retrograde step” to set up a Ministry of Justice are “dark clouds” over the Judiciary and the administration of justice, Law Association president Martin Daly SC warned yesterday.
Clearing air on property tax
While she acknowledged that property owners who, for example, paid $200 in residential property taxes may now have to pay as much as $600 a year under the new measure, Nunez-Tesheira said this must be taken in the context of the amount of subsidies Government pays for gasoline, diesel and social services. She also told her constituents that those who earn below $6,000 a month do not pay personal income taxes and the maximum rate is 25 per cent.
Reality check with our taxes
The curious thing about our Land and Building taxes is that they have been allowed to remain static over many decades to the point where they become simply nuisance taxes, especially for homeowners. Citizens should not be deceived into accepting the new rates as an equitable reform. They are nothing but a new level of direct taxation of homeowners using the same old "Land and Building'' name and in direct response to the huge deficits brought on by the world financial crisis that was not supposed to affect us and was merely a blip. What next? Improved local services or death duties?
Crime will not affect the holding of CHOGM
COMMONWEALTH Deputy Secretary-General Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba yesterday said claims of an alleged agreement between Prime Minister Patrick Manning and Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr will not affect the hosting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad and Tobago from November 27 to 29.
Daly: New judge a burst of sunshine in cloudy times
Yet another barrage of stinging criticism against Government's proposed draft constitutional reform was levelled yesterday, this time by president of the Law Association, Martin Daly.
Gaspard gets stint as DPP
A three-month stint as acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Jack meets Dookeran - New unity talks
RENEGADE United National Congress (UNC) Chaguanas West MP, Jack Warner, and Congress of the People (COP) Political Leader, Winston Dookeran, yesterday held political unity talks in the full view of the public as they met for lunch at the Breakfast Shed in Port-of-Spain.
Jack, Dooks back in love
Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner has asserted that the political love between himself and leader of the Congress of the People (COP), Winston Dookeran, has been rekindled and this has strengthened his resolve to continue fighting for change in the United National Congress (UNC).
Panday: 'I am all for unity'
OPPOSITION LEADER Basdeo Panday yesterday said he would be open to any new initiative to unite the country's opposition parties against the ruling People's National Movement (PNM).
Girl, 5, falls to death down Toco precipice
'Four men paid $20,000 for murder'
Killing of cop's wife: 1 'kidnapper' held
A CLOSE relative of Sangre Grande murder victim Bhagmat Seemungal-Akaloo reportedly paid four men $20,000 to kidnap her, stab her to death and then make the entire thing appear to be a random act of violence.
$1.7m bail for Peruvian captain
PERUVIAN captain Julio Caesar Bravo Montaleo was granted bail in the sum of $1.7 million yesterday after he appeared in court charged with importing prohibited goods.
The silence of surrender
That 15 persons can be killed in just four days - most by gunfire - is a shocking and dangerous blot upon our society. But worse than this is the ongoing silence of the Government, especially given that these murders occurred while the 2010 Budget Debate was in progress.
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