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PM addresses UN today
Posted: Saturday, September 26, 2009
PM addresses UN today
Udecott gets leave to challenge Uff enquiry
The Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (Udecott) has been granted leave to file for judicial review, challenging the validity of Commission of Enquiry into Udecott and the construction sector.
...Judge grants UDeCOTT leave to challenge enquiry
Annisette defends UDeCOTT in Senate
Independent Senator Michael Annisette yesterday began his 2009/2010 Budget contribution by defending the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago's move to file for judicial review against the Prof John Uff Commission of Enquiry, saying that this is a right of the State enterprise that not even the Government can raise objection to.
Govt at war with Unions
State-owned Telecommunicat-ions Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) and the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) are moving to have two leading trade unions fired in a fallout over a fracas involving telecommunications workers and a bus strike.
Rethink property taxes
Independent Senator Michael Annisette yesterday urged the Government to rethink its position on the controversial new property tax regime.
Property tax would yield $72M
ENERGY MINISTER Conrad Enill yesterday revealed that the new property tax system which Government plans to implement next year will only add $72 million in revenues to the country's coffers.
Enill: New property tax will reduce revenue
The property tax is a "revenue reduction, more than a revenue raising measure", Energy Minister Conrad Enill said yesterday.
31 nabbed in morning raid: Beetham residents in uproar
Beetham locked down – 29 held
AG keeps name close to his chest
Attorney General John Jeremie told the Senate last night that he is "not going to abuse Parliamentary privilege" by naming the former chief legal officer whose error he claimed had cost the country $1 billion.
More fire for AG
AG speaks 'mumbo jumbo'
OPPOSITION Senator Jennifer Jones-Kernahan went on the warpath yesterday as she took Attorney General John Jeremie to task for comments he made earlier this week about the Prime Minister's right to veto key appointments of chief legal officers under the Constitution.
Legal sources rebuff Jeremie
THE Law Association yesterday took objection to allegations by Attorney General John Jeremie that Law Association president Martin Daly SC had “lied” in the Justice Rajendra Narine affair.
Bakr affidavit being probed
ACTING Commissioner of Police James Philbert yesterday confirmed that an investigation into allegations contained in a controversial affidavit, sworn by Jamaat leader Yasin Abu Bakr, is being investigated by police.
Costs of discrimination
On the basis of the Privy Council ruling that the constitutional rights of the Maha Sabha had been violated, the High Court recently made an order assessing damages to the Hindu organisation. In making the award of almost $3 million the learned judge is reported to have observed that it was a case of unexplained and unjustifiable discrimination in refusing Maha Sabha a radio licence, the issuance of which is supposedly a relatively simple exercise in any free and open society.
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