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Crime Is Our Problem: PM
Posted: Sunday, September 27, 2009
Crime Is Our Problem: PM tells UN General Assembly
THE rising crime that is currently affecting Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean region has been caused by the loss of preferential markets for the export of bananas and sugar, Prime Minister Patrick Manning said yesterday.
Discourse and diatribe
It is depressing, to say the least, watching men and women who hold high offices, eschew discourse in favour of diatribe as they engage each other in matters of national interest. The latest salvo fired by Attorney General John Jeremie as he responded to statements by the Law Association, is a case in point. Clearly, the AG believes he and his colleagues in government are being targeted by political opponents, which is why he must descend into the gutter to snipe at the "enemy".
Browne: Govt could review property tax
Minister of Trade and Industry and Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Mariano Browne, says Government is discussing reducing the property tax rate from ten percent to three percent. He said Government expects to bring the Property Tax legislation to Parliament in the first-quarter of 2010.
'Property tax to be debated'
Legislation for the proposed new property taxes must be brought to the Parliament to be debated before they become law says Minister in the Ministry of Finance Mariano Browne
Senator wants answers on UTT US$25m Johns Hopkins deal
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.
Khan: Proceed with inquiry
Former Commissioner in Uff Commission of Inquiry into the construction sector, Senior Counsel Israel Khan, has called for the inquiry to continue despite the application for judicial review brought by the Urban Development Company of TT (Udecott).
Ramadhar slams Udecott's latest move
Darkest hour
Tobago's tourism industry, already battered by the global economic downturn, is today under further assault by the sudden upsurge in serious crime and from continuing power cuts in the island's electricity supply as a result of a damaged submarine cable through which Tobago is supplied power from Trinidad.
UNC Senator: Assessment tools for cops wrong
The fight against crime is on the back foot, because the National Security Ministry is using the wrong assessment tools in the Police Service.
American's boating accident: will soldier be charged?
Popular Valencia vendor stabbed to death
A popular pigtail vendor from Valencia died on Friday night three hours after he was stabbed in his back by an unknown man with whom he had had an altercation.
3 weekend killings
A POPULAR pigtail vendor from Valencia was one of three people killed between Friday night and yesterday, according to police reports.
Murders hit 398
In the most gruesome of killings, a man was shot several times and then beheaded at an unfinished building in Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain.
Families of murder victims march against crime
Bernard Coard's selective recall
Let the people decide Selwyn Ryan
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