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Dookeran on financial stability: We will take hard decisions
Posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Dookeran on financial stability: We will take hard decisions
If T&T's growth projections are not realised Government must be prepared to take hard policy decisions as it charts the financial stability in the next two years, says Finance Minister Winston Dookeran.
'Govt ready for hard decisions'
FINANCE Minister Winston Dookeran has said the Government is willing to make "hard policy decisions" if economic projections are not realised.
Budget $55.5B
HOURS before the matter was due to be debated in the Senate, the House of Representatives early yesterday morning passed legislation to increase the 2012 Budget by $1.5 billion after a marathon 14-hour sitting.
TOP ready for THA battle
"The mother of all battles” is the description given to the upcoming Tobago House of Assembly (THA) elections by Chairman of the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP), Lionel Coker.
Senator sees politics trumping economics
Independent Senator Subhas Ramkhelawan says he is very worried about the economics of T&T at this time.
STEP ON THE GAS
Economist urges Govt to set timetable to reduce fuel subsidy
Hart: Wrong Patrick in guestbook comments
Former executive chairman of the Urban Development Corporation (Udecott) Calder Hart says the "Patrick” to whom Housing and the Environment Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal referred in Parliament on Monday was Patrick Caesar.
Devant: Plans for 2 CAL flights to London weekly
Ramesh: Where is the proof?
Senior Counsel Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj - one of the attorneys representing the CLICO United Policyholders Group - has called on Finance Minister Winston Dookeran to provide evidence that $9 billion has already been paid out to policyholders.
Jack calls for police patrols in Debe
WORKS Minister Jack Warner says he has written National Security Minister John Sandy, calling for increased police patrols in the Penal/ Debe area because of threats, violence and victimisation by protesters of the Debe to Mon Desir segment of the Point Fortin Highway.
Financial Task Force: 303 in suspicious activities
Reports of suspicious activities which were noted by local financial entities increased from 111 in 2009-2010 to 303 in 2010-2011, a Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) report has stated.
Manning keeping in touch with supporters
PEOPLE'S National Movement (PNM) councillor in the San Fernando City Corporation Robert Parris on Monday confirmed that he is in contact with former political leader Patrick Manning, who is recovering from a stroke in the United States.
Rowley, Khan reply to Maraj: PNM not a 'fading' partyThe People's National Movement (PNM) is not a pressure group and does not have to act like one.
Abdulah: Time to end jobs for party supporters
Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) leader David Abdulah yesterday called for a complete dismantling of the special purpose companies set up under the People's National Movement (PNM).
Back to drawing board
A FRESH crime plan is expected to be drawn up to deal specifically with the rising murder rate as National Security Minister, Brigadier (ret) John Sandy has called in Deputy Commissioner of Police Mervyn Richardson to an emergency meeting.
'Santa Rosa' inmates housed in modified shipping containers
Inmates at the Eastern Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre (ECRC), known as the "Santa Rosa Prison", are being housed in modified shipping containers and there were no tendering procedures for the refurbishment works at the facility due to the urgency of the project, National Security Minister John Sandy said yesterday.
Ryan: $2m bill for crime plan a myth
Prof Selwyn Ryan is denying Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is paying him $2 million to come up with a crime plan.
Speaker: Take a two-hour rest
Opposition MP Paula Gopee-Scoon was suspended from the Parliament chamber for two hours by Speaker Wade Mark on Monday night.
Mark, Browne in early-morning clash
There was heat in the House of Representatives in the wee hours of yesterday when Speaker Wade Mark and Opposition MP Amery Browne clashed over a ruling.
'Govt should help us rebuild'
IT IS "grossly unfair" that the State would use tax dollars to bail out the depositors of failed insurance giant CLICO, but not offer financial assistance to help businesses destroyed during the 1990 attempted coup.
Wrong target, Mr Dookeran
Rickey Singh: The integrity microscope
Twins held in teenager's rape
Twin brothers from Chaguanas were held by police yesterday after a report that one of their neighbours was gang-raped in front of her seven-year-old sister.
Central serial rapist nabbed
A 24-YEAR-OLD Chaguanas man - described by police as being a serial rapist - and two other rape suspects, both twins and aged 34, were arrested during raids in several areas in central Trinidad by police during the early morning hours yesterday.
I got licks after rape
IN A FIRST of its kind in this country, a woman yesterday went on trial for knowing her underage daughter was being sexually abused and failing to report the crime to the police.
Three men charged for stolen wigs and weaves
Three men accused of going on an overnight crime spree in May, breaking into five San Fernando businesses, including Pizza Boys/Church's Chicken, and making off with $21,829 in cash and stolen items, appeared in court on Monday.
Human bones found
TRAFFIC was brought to a crawl along the Lady Young Road Morvant yesterday morning as curious onlookers attempted to catch a glimpse of police officers as they struggled to remove the skeletal remains of a human being found in a bamboo patch at the bottom of a 40-foot precipice.
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