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Outrage over $300M contract
Posted: Monday, October 12, 2009
Outrage over $300M contract
The Urban Development Corporation's (Udecott) decision to quietly award a multi-million dollar contract to Sunway Construction Caribbean Limited yesterday sparked outrage and uproar from rival factions in the Opposition United National Congress (UNC), the TT Transparency Institute (TTTI) and a prominent member of the local construction industry.
Architects call for slower approach to construction
Architects are calling on the Government to adapt "a slower and balanced approach" towards construction in the country
It's a mess
The fact is that Government forced UDeCOTT to amend the original consent order, which had shut down the Commission completely, only after outrage was expressed by the business community, civil society and the media.
Who really heads FIU?
THE Opposition last Friday expressed serious concern over who would run a new unit to combat money-laundering as the Lower House debated the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Bill 2009 and the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2009.
MPs unite, reject public service staff for FIU
Dookeran: T&T watchwords turned into a lie
"This society is less disciplined today than it has ever been. This society is less productive today than it has ever been and this society is less tolerant today than it has ever been."
T&T strikes US$75m ferry deal with Austal
Australia's aluminium shipbuilding industry has received a boost with the Austal company securing a US$75 million contract to build four fast ferries for Trinidad and Tobago.
12 homeless
Three families, comprising of 12 persons were up to last night without a place to sleep, after fire gutted their homes in Beetham Gardens.
Time of 'Rienzi UNC' is over
Tabaquite MP Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj yesterday dismissed the United National Congress (UNC) internal party elections carded for January, dubbing this as being "irrelevant".
Man who took Cialis dies hours after action
A 35-year-old Rio Claro man died yesterday after allegedly taking Cialis, a drug used for erectile dysfunction (ED).
When is a strip-search warranted?
Give us guns
Under siege from bandits who have no qualms about committing murder if anyone steps in their way, fedup San Juan businessmen are sending out an SOS to acting Commissioner of Police (CoP) James Philbert, to give them guns.
Query over firearm licence snub
The San Juan Business Association is calling on Acting Commissioner of Police James Philbert to explain to the national community why between the period January 1 and September 15 only 215 firearm licences were issued. This represented five per cent of those who applied, the association said.
Former TV cameraman held on firearm charges
Lover gunned down
Police suspect 'soured' relationship led to PTSC employee's killing
Man shot dead in love triangle
A love triangle involving two men and a woman, turned deadly over the weekend when the jealous ex-lover of the woman, ambushed and shot dead her current lover moments after he (the victim) left her Tunapuna home during the early morning hours yesterday.
Fourth man arrested in teacher's killing
Silencer used in Champs Fleurs murder–police
Police probing the death of a 32-year-old Champs Fleurs man suspect he was killed with a gun which had a silencer attached to it.
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