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MPs lobby for higher salaries
Posted: Tuesday, June 14, 2016
MPs lobby for higher salaries
GOVERNMENT and Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) were yesterday united in one voice when they met with officials working on behalf of the Salaries Review Commission (SRC) and lobbied them for higher salaries.
Senator quits to protect family
Government is expected to announce a replacement in the Senate today for People's National Movement Government Senator Hafeez Ali, who resigned his post last Friday, PNM officials have confirmed.
Nude images lead to blackmail
A GOVERNMENT Senator has reported to Fraud Squad that he is being blackmailed by a woman from North American who has posted videos of him in the nude on You Tube. The senator says he has already vast sums of money via wire transfer to the woman in an effort to coerce her into removing the explicit videos from the website.
Audit reveals questionable $b contracts at HDC
The Housing Development Corporation (HDC)'s decision to award a billion-dollar sole select contract, the common ownership of companies awarded over $2.5 billion in work and possible collusion between HDC employees and contractors are some of the findings unearthed in its audit report.
Deyalsingh praises Chinese doctors
HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has applauded the success of a two-year medical programme which saw 40 Chinese health care professionals sharing their expertise and knowledge in such speciality areas as neurosurgery, saying more local doctors were being trained in the specialist field due to the influence of the Chinese doctors.
Gunman hated gays, blacks, Jews and women
Like many other young American men, Omar Mateen worked a series of unremarkable jobs during and after high school—a Publix grocery store, Circuit City, Chick-Fil-A and Walgreens.
Ganja at PM's gate: man pleads guilty
Contractor pleads guilty
A 26-year-old contractor from Belmont yesterday admitted to smuggling a small quantity of marijuana and smoking paraphernalia into the prime minister's official residence in St Ann's last week.
This warrants thorough investigation
INSPECTOR of Prisons Daniel Khan yesterday called for an "immediate and thorough" investigations into the circumstances surrounding the hanging death of inmate Peter Hyde who was found dead in his cell on Sunday at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca.
More powers soon for PCA
TRINIDAD and Tobago is crying out for an example to be set in every area that is important to us and that is why the government has engaged itself in a significant amount of work in relation to the proposed increase in powers for the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi told Newsday yesterday.
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