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$M BLAZE IN CENTRAL
Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2016

$M BLAZE IN CENTRAL
SIXTY workers of the Food Basket mega-supermarket store off the Uriah Butler Highway in Chaguanas are today without jobs after the sprawling business was gutted by fire of unknown origin yesterday afternoon.

Appeal Court delivers landmark judgment
THE Court of Appeal on June 9, delivered a landmark judgment which provides clarity and guidance to the vexing issue of proper sentencing in relation to certain guilty pleas. Such is its importance of the ruling that it was a joint judgment delivered by Justices of Appeal, Paula Mae Weekes, Alice Yorke-Soo Hon and Mark Mohammed.

Real story will come to light
While the ruling People's National Movement has expressed disappointment at the situation involving former senator Hafeez Ali – after news of a sex tape involving him was leaked online – Ali himself says he is disheartened by some of the information "out there" about it and public comments about him.

Sex video scandal embarrassing—Mustapha
Members of the Muslim community yesterday expressed embarrassment that one of its members had become embroiled in an online sex tape scandal.

PNM rallies around Ali

Garcia: He did the honourable thing

No right thinking Muslim would do this
This was the reaction yesterday of the Muslim Social and Cultural Foundation in response to the massacre of 49 persons killed in a shooting spree at a gay night club in Orlanda, USA on Sunday morning. "No right thinking Muslim, no right thinking human being for that matter, would massacre 49 of his fellow human beings and wound another fifty-three, as mass killer Omar Mateen did, a release from the Foundation started.

New Arima Hospital downsized
Cuts were made to the cost of the construction of the Arima Hospital and the number of beds to be made available for patients, according to Arima MP Anthony Garcia.

Psychiatrists call on RC Archbishop: Open dialogue on abortion and contraception
With 2,500 teenage girls in T&T getting pregnant every year, secretary of the Association of Psychiatrists, Varma Deyalsingh, is calling for adoption centres to be set up by the Catholic Church.

Grenada PM seeks better stats
IN THEIR QUEST to bring about a single economic market encompassing all Caricom nations, leaders have pushed the matter of how we gauge the true status of our economies onto their highest agenda.

No drones over private property
PERSONS who operate drones without a licence, will be fined $350,000 and imprisoned for five years, according to proposals drawn up by the Civil Aviation Authority to regulate unmanned aircraft systems. Persons will also be banned from using drones over private and public property, without permission.

Assemblyman: I'm no thief
Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure in the Tobago House of Assembly, Handell Beckles, has denied that he owes anyone $100,000.

More keys go missing at PoS prison... Cops called in
Police have been called in to probe the disappearance of another set of keys at the Port-of-Spain Prison last week.

Community service recommended
COMMUNITY service is being recommended for the man who pleaded guilty to being in possession of a marijuana 'grinder' which contained traces of ganja in it, as he went through the security checkpoint to the official residence of the prime minister in St Ann's.



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