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Farley: No to elections
Posted: Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Farley: No to elections
...suggests Duke fight for Minority Leader post

2 Senior Counsel withdraw from Nelson's lawsuit
The Office of the Attorney General has sought to change its legal team in King's Counsel Vincent Nelson's lawsuit over the alleged breach of an indemnity agreement related to his role as the State's main witness in the now-discontinued corruption case against former attorney general Anand Ramlogan, SC, and attorney Gerald Ramdeen.

T&TEC: Higher rates needed for debt load
T&TEC is proposing stiff rate increases: for residential customers a rate increase of 40 to 65.75 per cent increase over a five-year period while a 128.5 per cent rate increase for commercial and industrial customers, over the same period.

Paria Commission of Enquiry chairman: Better oversight needed
Commission counsel Ramesh Maharaj asked if he had any idea what was Delta P – a dangerous phenomenon due to a differential pressure thought to have created a vortex that sucked five divers into an undersea pipeline. Ramadhan replied, "I know nothing about that."

Ramadhan said Scott was on site monitoring overall conditions, but not the specifics of the maintenance job. Lynch asked Ramdhan if he would have wished to have known if something was done that was not on the method statement for that job.

Saying the removal of migration barriers inside the pipeline was not approved for that day by the method statement, Lynch asked, "Would you want to know?" Ramadhan replied, "Yes. I'd stop the work."

Manohar badly beaten, taken to hospital
"This morning when he (Ramsaran) went to check on the place and the man told him that you cannot put me out from here. The authorities gave me permission. The man picked up a piece of wood and attacked him. He (Ramsaran) went to a neighbour and those people helped him", said his wife.

10 years later: the highway hunger
It is now history that the PP lost the election, OAS went bankrupt and was fired, and the highway project stopped while the new administration tried to find out what the country got for more than US $4 billion of taxpayers' dollars.

Few paid any attention to the disrupted lives of the people on the highway route at Ghandi Village, Bunsee Trace, Suchit Trace, Gopie Trace, Tulsa Trace, Banwarie Trace, Jokhan Trace, San Francique Main Road, Murray Trace, Timital Trace, Siparia Old Road, the Fyzabad Main Road, Pepper Village, Seelal Trace and Berridge Trace, Mon Desir.

Differing accounts from Morvant police-involved killings
Jacob said the killings of White and James brought the number of police-involved killings to 51 for the year thus far.

All police-involved killings are investigated by a First Division Officer (FDO), that is, at the rank of ASP (Assistant Superintendent of Police) or above.

Chaguanas murder victim's uncle killed in hit-and-run accident
Screams echoed on Monday night during the wake of murder victim Amar Randy Ramdass at the news that his uncle had been struck and killed in an accident on the highway. People left the wake and headed toward the Solomon Hochoy Highway, where they saw the body of Alvin "Fenders" Ramlogan, 50, near the wheels of a truck parked on the shoulder.

Body wrapped in plastic dumped on highway shoulder
Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers at 800-8477, Homicide Region III at 652-0495, or police emergency numbers 555, 999, 911, or send the information to the TTPS app, or the Hunters Search and Rescue Team at 475-4350.

Female security guard dies 4 days after being shot
She was shot and wounded around 5 am last Friday while on her way to work at the Carapichaima East Secondary School.

According to reports, Motilal was confronted by a man who shot her in the eye. She was taken to Chaguanas Health Facility and then transferred to The Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex.

Driver dies as truck jack-knifes
Police said Rampersad was at the time driving a truck while towing a trailer when the container "jack-knifed" causing it to become dislodged and fall on the right side of the truck's cabin.



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