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PURE MISCHIEF
Posted: Wednesday, June 8, 2016

HSF is not a bran tub
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is questioning whether the Government's $2.5 billion withdrawal from the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) is going to be used to fund the People's National Movement (PNM) local government election campaign.

Khan: No HSF funding for elections
RURAL Development and Local Government Minister Franklin Khan yesterday categorically dismissed Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar's allegation that money withdrawn from the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) will be used to bankroll the ruling People's National Movement's (PNM) local government election campaign.

...Money used for services in T&T, says Imbert

...$2.5b HSF withdrawal to finance 2016—Imbert

PURE MISCHIEF
EDUCATION Minister Anthony Garcia has described as "pure mischief" incidents yesterday in which a bomb threat disrupted operations at the University of the West Indies' (UWI) St Augustine campus and a fake hand grenade outside the Point Fortin RC Primary School, which led to a complete evacuation of students and teachers and the area around the school being cordoned off.

Bomb threat leads to evacuation at UWI
The Cyber Crime Unit of the Police Service was called in yesterday to investigate a bomb threat which was phoned in at The University of the West Indies' St Augustine campus, causing an evacuation and classes to be suspended...

Grenade hoax clears out Point school

Garcia wants book thrown at pranksters

'I won't respond to that'
Estrada yesterday described the controversial issue of child marriage as a social one and not a religious issue, saying he would not get into any "back and forth" discourse with secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Satnarayan 'Sat' Maharaj.

55,000 families squat on state lands
There has been an "invasion" of squatters on land deemed forest reserve which is posing a major challenge to the Land Settlement Agency (LSA), so much so that the agency is calling for a land court.

200,000 squatters in Trinidad
SQUATTING is not only rampant in Valencia and Sangre Grande, but all over Trinidad with over 200,000 people squatting on State lands according to Chairman of the Land Settlement Agency (LSA) Ossley Francis.

$80,000 bail for accused guard
The 28-year-old prisons officer accused of breaching prison regulations by taking home a set of keys for the cells of the Port-of-Spain State Prison has been released on $80,000 bail.

220 guns removed from streets this year

Boy in court for poisoning granny
A 12-YEAR-OLD schoolboy will return to court today to answer a charge of poisoning his grandmother after the case was adjourned yesterday due to an absence of magistrates at the Rio Claro courts yesterday.



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