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Govt to pay $3m for radio licence delay
Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Govt to pay $3m for radio licence delay
The State has to pay the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, which operates Central Broadcasting Services Ltd, close to $3 million in damages for its unequal treatment and delay in granting them a FM radio broadcasting licence.
Govt to pay SDMS $2.6m
Court orders compensation for discrimination
Refusal of radio licence to Maha-Sabha costs State $3M
FOR failing to grant the Maha Sabha a radio licence, a High Court judge yesterday ordered the State to pay the Hindu organisation almost $3 million.
Sat satisfied; Lee Sing calls it an error
Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) is pleased with the million-dollar award. Citadel's chairman and co-owner, Louis Lee Sing, said he felt the courts had erred and he was the one discriminated against in the matter.
Tax war in the Senate
MINISTER in the Ministry of Finance, Mariano Browne, and Senate Minority Leader, Wade Mark, crossed swords in the Senate yesterday over the controversial property tax system in the 2010 Budget, which Government plans to implement on January 1, 2010.
'Property tax will hit people's pockets'
Most backward, oppressive and callous. That's how Opposition senator Wade Mark describes the proposed increases in property taxes.
New tax to aid garbage collection
Government has increased property taxes to generate revenue for community services such as garbage collection, says Minister in the Ministry of Finance Mariano Browne.
Mark: Probe Petrotrin
Probe US$5,000 monthly 'fiasco'
Opposition Senator Wade Mark is calling for an inquiry into an alleged US$5,000 monthly rental of a house in St Joseph Village, San Fernando, by a company known as World GTL.
Summons for Mrs. Hart
THE COMMISSIONERS of the Uff Commission of Inquiry have taken a decision to summon Sherrine Hart, the wife of Udecott executive chairman Calder Hart, in order for her to respond to claims of a link between her and a Malaysian company which was awarded a $368 million contract by her husband.
AG: Udecott can't defy Government
Responding to a note sent to him by Newsday during yesterday's sitting of the Senate, Jeremie said, "Udecott can't act in defiance of the Government in respect of either the gazetting of the commission, or the Validation Bill which will be laid shortly, or for that matter, in any respect."
Taps on phone calls
Legislation to provide for the "lawful interception" if any communication over any network has been drafted and is to be tabled in the Parliament, National Security Minister Martin Joseph said yesterday.
Teacher electrocuted
A schoolteacher was electrocuted while painting his home at La Fortune, Woodland, on Monday evening
Bakr to use AG's statements in defence
Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Iman Yasin Abu Bakr intends to rely on statements made by Attorney General John Jeremie to support his case that he cannot get a fair trial on the basis of pre-trial publicity.
Cop, spiritual leader in court for murder
Cop accused of wife's murder
An angry crowd jeered police constable Sunil Akaloo as he and his spiritual advisor were taken yesterday to the Sangre Grande Magistrate's Court on the charge of murder. The victim is Akaloo's wife Bhasmat Seemungal-Akaloo.
Over 30 injuries inflicted on infant girl
A pathologist yesterday cited for a San Fernando jury, a list of over 30 injuries which he said were inflicted on a two-and-a-half year old girl at her home in Couva five years ago.
Send AG to Privileges
SIPARIA MP Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday sent a letter to Speaker Barry Sinanan asking that Attorney General John Jeremie be sent to the House's Privileges Committee for criticising Justice Rajendra Narine's call for a probe of claims by Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr...
Joseph: 249 police officers charged, 29 suspended
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