Auditors detect $3.1m URP ‘fraud’
The former People’s Partnership administration’s URP social programme hired 300 people as “area foremen” because they were the parents of children with cerebral palsy although there was no evidence...
View ArticleSuruj awaits action from Carmona on SSA Bill
The Opposition will be keeping an eye on President Anthony Carmona to see if he will exert the powers he believes he has as it relates to the Strategic Services Agency (Amendment) Bill 2016 being...
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Woman wants help for abandoned girl
A Guyanese woman is calling for an investigation into Ste Madeleine Police Station officers over their handling of a 17-year-old schoolgirl who was reportedly abandoned by her mother this week. Rhonda...
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Licks for tardy police
RALPH BANWARIESalybia villagers were both sad and angry yesterday evening, after father and son, Lloyd and Ryan Ramkissoon, were shot dead during an argument with a neighbour.Police were assisted by...
View ArticleDuke’s PSA post may be in trouble
Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke may have to relinquish his duties if he is eventually charged by police in relation to an allegation of rape made against him by a lawyer...
View ArticleMan found dead at Bayshore
More than 12 hours after gunshots were reported in Marabella, the body of a man was found on the seafront at Bayshore yesterday.Police believe the deceased, identified only as Joel, aka Bighead or...
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No plan to stop it—Deyalsingh
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has given the assurance that although the External Patient Programme (EPP) is under review it will not be stopped, as it continues to benefit citizens by improving...
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UNC files no-confidence motion against Al-Rawi
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says a private motion for the House of Representatives to express its loss of confidence in Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi was filed in the Parliament...
View ArticleJunkere was named as AATT board member
Former temporary Independent Senator Justin Junkere has made it clear that he never took up the position on the Airports Authority of T&T’s (AATT) board when his name was announced as part of...
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Justice system under pressure
Chief Justice Ivor Archie said yesterday that the current crime rate, coupled with prison overcrowding, continues to place considerable pressure on the criminal justice infrastructure. He said such a...
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Man on trial 10 years after crime
A plot to rob, idol worshipping and a multi-million dollar inheritance formed part of the evidence heard by a jury in the San Fernando High Court, at the beginning of the murder trial of the man...
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US seeks to join lawsuit
High Court Judge James Aboud will rule on whether the United States Government should be allowed to join, as an interested party, in a lawsuit filed by former Fifa vice president Jack Warner...
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Food card holders angry over halt
As Government moves to rein in undocumented food cards currently in circulation, affected members of the public have complained that they were being “embarrassed” when they visited the grocery and were...
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Bloody Black Friday
JOEL JULIENIt was a bloody Black Friday (Friday 13) with four murders, one police killing and a fatal road traffic accident all taking place over a three-hour period across the country. The son of a...
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Best friends shot dead in Central
A week before he and his best friend were shot dead, 22-year-old Jakan Lezama told his pregnant girlfriend Crystal Ramsaran that he did not want any other man raising their child. Lezama made Ramsaran...
View ArticleNo charges yet for Duke, still in custody
Watson Duke, the president of the Public Services Association (PSA), remained in police custody up to late last night as the investigations into rape allegations against him continued.Duke was said to...
View ArticleQuestions over Julien’s role in Ghana energy deal
JOEL JULIENProf Ken Julien’s role in the signing of a new energy sector deal between T&T and Ghana is being questioned by former attorney general Garvin Nicholas.Nicholas has questioned whether...
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Salybia killer remains on the run
RALPH BANWARIEThe man who shot and killed Lloyd Ramkissoon and his son, Ryan Ramkissoon, in Salybia on Friday, was on the run up to late yesterday. Relatives of the Ramkissoons said they are scared for...
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Estrada pushes role model message to T&T youth
ORIN GORDONJohn Learie Estrada, asked by President Barack Obama’s staff what he’d like to do in his (the president’s) last term starting 2013, did not even think about the job he’s doing now, United...
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Demming remains mum on reason for TDC sacking
She’s not divulging the details surrounding her termination but sacked chairman of the Tourism Development Company (TDC), Dennise Demming, says once people don’t understand their roles and...
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