Nurses upset over delay in payment of arrears
Following a promise by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley last week that members of the protective services will receive their arrears by the end of this month, nurses say they are feeling slighted, given...
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Two soldiers on murder charge
Two former soldiers appeared in court yesterday charged with the murder of a Diego Martin man who was shot and left for dead in a forested area in Chaguaramas earlier this month.Ross Russell Jr and...
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Standard coming soon for imported poultry
Government will consider if it should make a certain regional standard for poultry products compulsory, says Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon.She signalled intent to deal with the matter in reply to an...
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Fire officers may lose backpay
Hundreds of fire officers will be disappointed this month-end as they will not be receiving any backpay.Instead, firefighters could be owing the Government thousands of dollars as the Chief Personnel...
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Probe after junior named to top post in corporation
Local Government Minister Franklin Khan has initiated an investigation into the appointment of a low-level employee who is overseeing $24 million taxpayers’ dollars at the Couva /Tabaquite/Talparo...
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Lawyer: Building still too small
President of the Central Lawyers Association, attorney Richard Sirjoo, says the space at the newly refurbished Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court is still not enough to accommodate members of the public who...
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$75,000 bail for top cop
Secretary of the Police Service Social and Welfare Association, Insp Michael Seales, was granted $75,000 bail at the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday afternoon after he appeared charged with...
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Driver killed as truck plunges off precipice
A La Romaine truck driver was crushed to death yesterday when the dump truck he was driving plunged off a precipice in an area which has been plagued by accidents. Seoudass Sooknanan, 51, of La Fortune...
View ArticleBharath’s Porsche SUV being sold by Agriculture Ministry
The controversial luxury Porsche Cayenne vehicle once used by former People’s Partnership food production minister Vasant Bharath for ministerial duties is now up for sale.In 2010, Bharath’s ministry...
View ArticleGarcia concerned over victims of porn ring
Education Minister Anthony Garcia yesterday expressed concern with regards to the nude photographs of 500 young women which were leaked recently on social media in what police believed was a local...
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Colman report knocks Central Bank in Clico, HCU fiasco: Regulatory control...
Deficiency in the Central Bank’s regulatory control of the insurance industry and the respective “visions” of CL Financial chairman Lawrence Duprey and Hindu Credit Union chairman Harry Harnarine have...
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PM orders audit into NLCB
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has instructed Finance Minister Colm Imbert to institute an audit into the affairs of the State agency, National Lotteries Control Board (NLCB), which is under the...
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Government to audit food card holders
Social Development Minister Cherrie-Ann Critchlow-Cockburn said internal auditors have been asked to do an extensive audit of every one of the 240,000-plus recipients who receive food cards to ensure...
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Garcia sees success story with 52 deviant students
Fifty-two disruptive and deviant students who were removed from the El Dorado East Secondary (EESS) and Chaguanas North Secondary (CNSS) schools have been rehabilitated and are now doing well in and...
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Secrecy rule in Income Tax Act to be amended
The contentious secrecy provision contained in Section Four of the Income Tax Act may be amended as the matter was now being dealt with by the Attorney General, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee...
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THA: Online petition on Sandals premature
Premature!That’s how Secretary of Tourism and Transportation in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA), Tracy Davidson-Celestine, yesterday responded to the online petition which called on the assembly for...
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Tobagonians vote for new council leaders today
Members of the People’s National Movement (PNM) in Tobago will come out today to vote for two candidates to fill the posts of political leader of the party’s Tobago council and chairman.After weeks of...
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Carpenter dies in house fire
Relatives and neighbors of carpenter Taranpersad Balkaran remained baffled yesterday as to how his house burnt flat in the dead of the night, with him still inside it.Balkaran’s charred remains were...
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DPP GETS COLMAN REPORT
The voluminous Sir Anthony Colman report into the collapse of the Colonial Life Insurance Company has been sent to Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard for his attention and action. The...
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Ramdeen lashes out
Attorney Gerald Ramdeen is lashing out at Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s decision to refer him to the disciplinary committee of the Law Association. Ramdeen said the AG himself may have breached the...
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