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UDeCOTT holding Uff Commission 'hostage'
Posted: Sunday, October 11, 2009
On today, Uff tomorrow
SOMEONE determined many moons ago that there are three sides to every story-yours, mine, and the truth.
Udecott Gives Sunway New $300m Project
WHILE furore continued to mount this month over its decision to challenge the proceedings of the Uff Commission of Inquiry, the Udecott board was reported to have quietly decided to award a multimillion-dollar contract to Sunway Construction Caribbean Limited, the company that has been linked to Udecott executive chairman Calder Hart.
Lawyers: New Udecott board will protect public's interest
The Urban Development Company (Udecott) board, headed by Calder Hart, should be fired, and another board put in place, in order to protect the public's interest, so there is no longer any threat to the Uff Commission completing its deliberations and publishing a report.
Transparency Institute: UDeCOTT holding Uff Commission 'hostage'
TTTI: Udecott holding inquiry hostage
CHAIRMAN of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute, Victor Hart, yesterday warned that the Uff Commission of Inquiry is being held "hostage" by Udecott notwithstanding the vacating of a court order which had paralysed the inquiry.
Central Bank's role in new FIU queried
Former finance minister, Selby Wilson, is questioning the role of the Central Bank in the financial sector, now that the Financial Intelligence Unit Bill (FIU) has been passed.
Brown warns against incursions against civil society
Co-ordinator of the Network of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) Hazel Brown yesterday warned civil society representatives to be wary of "incursions" that attempt to prevent the progress of such associations.
Free judiciary...check against abuse of public power
This week, I am dealing with the draft constitution as it relates to the independence of the judiciary.
Ministers and the media
DO Government Ministers understand the role of the media, and their own role? The question arose in a most glaring way at Thursday's post-Cabinet media conference at the Diplomatic Centre, when Minister of Public Administration, Kennedy Swaratsingh, seemed to get offended when reporters asked him about what they considered to be the most pressing issues of the day.
OWTU renews call for Annisette's head
Is Annisette viable?
Independent Senator Michael Annisette's inflamed speech to the Senate last week Thursday raises serious questions as to his impartiality in that office, and on his suitability to continue in such an esteemed post.
Splendid displays at Divali Nagar
Sharma rues diminishing funds for Divali Nagar
Make Craig white collar crime buster
Deputy Police Commissioner Raymond Craig is probably the most professional white collar crime buster in the T&T Police Service, yet the Government has chosen to channel his energies to directing vehicular traffic.
'People's voice must be heard'
The Commonwealth People's Forum (CPF) must be left free of any "incursions" because the people's voice must be heard, social activist Hazel Brown declared yesterd
'Barbaric behaviour' of police, prisons officers costing state big $$
The State has been forking out an estimated $25 million per year to settle hundreds of judicial matters brought by members of the public against police and prisons officers.
Wanted man shot and killed by police
One of two men wanted in connection with the murder of Tobago teenagers Kelon Salandy and Rondell Thomas was shot and killed in Moruga on Friday night.
...Suspect in Tobago killings shot dead
Two men shot dead in Arima
Prisoner dies by hanging
A Laventille man who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife in 1983, yesterday allegedly took his own life in his prison cell.
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