Ramesh: Govt trying to control CLF assets
Former Attorney General Ramesh Lawrence-Maharaj has accused Government of engineering an elaborate and well thought out plan to maintain control of the valuable assets of the CL Financial Group to...
View ArticleRamesh Lawrence Maharaj: Reserve judgment on Marcia
Citizens should exercise restraint before declaring former Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar guilty of perjury. They should wait until Thursday’s hearing at the San Fernando High Court when...
View ArticleCOP to choose new leader August 20
Members of the Congress of the People (COP) will go to the polls on August 20 to elect a new political leader. This was the decision was taken by a majority vote at yesterday’s general membership...
View ArticleDaly: JLSC must go
Former Law Association president Martin Daly yesterday renewed his call for members of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC), including its chairman Chief Justice Ivor Archie, to resign...
View ArticleGarcia denies hundreds being sent home
Education Minister Anthony Garcia yesterday denied that hundreds of contract workers are being dismissed from his ministry.Although he admitted the ministry is experiencing financial difficulties,...
View ArticleAyers-Caesar’s husband recalls day she resigned: Marcia was crying...
After her “forced resignation” as a High Court judge, Marcia Ayers-Caesar did not eat, sleep or leave the house for days, her husband Rickie Matthew Caesar said in an affidavit filed in support of her...
View ArticlePermell: Who benefits from liquidation?
Chairman of the Clico Policyholders Group (CPG) Peter Permell wants to know who stands to benefit from the forced liquidation of CL Financial.The head of the Clico Policyholders Group said he would...
View ArticleWaiting decades for public housing
Saidah Long was 19 and pregnant with her first child when she applied to the then National Housing Authority (NHA) for a home. Her son is now 17 and Long is still renting and awaiting a response from...
View ArticleFlood victims get help cleaning up
Contractors from the Drainage and Highways Divisions of the Ministry of Works were at Perseverance Road and Haleland Park, Maraval, yesterday to assist residents with cleaning up following floods which...
View ArticleWeeks after rescue from Tropical Storm Bret: Chance family marooned again
Just over a month after the Chance family had to be rescued from rising flood waters at their Sunrees Road, Penal, home, they awoke yesterday morning to murky brown flood waters at their doorstep....
View ArticleValencia horror
Valencia residents were left in shock yesterday, after a senior citizen was found dead on her bed, naked and with her hands tied behind her back and her throat slit.Elizabeth Susan Lewis, 60, of Old...
View ArticleCasino guard kills bandit
A Chaguanas man was killed by a security guard yesterday afternoon, after he and another man attempted to rob a casino.According to police reports, around 3 pm Vishnu Dowlath, of Enterprise, Chaguanas,...
View ArticleNo gag order on Marcia case
Attorneys for Chief Justice Ivor Archie are expected to move for an adjournment to give them time to review and file affidavits in the landmark case of former chief magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar...
View ArticleSocial media hate for pick-up murder accused
Angry shouts echoed outside the Siparia Magistrates’ Court yesterday, as Yucklan Sancaro confronted Anthony Sinanan, the man charged with murdering her son David Sancaro.As Sinanan, 37, of South...
View ArticleHarris to hear critical case
Justice David Harris, sitting in the San Fernando High Court, will begin hearing an application for judicial review brought by former chief magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar against the Judicial and Legal...
View ArticleCar wash owner killed
A 23-year-old car wash owner was killed on Saturday night and his girlfriend shot in the abdomen because they were in a “strange car” in a not too friendly neighbourhood, according to police and...
View ArticleGuard shot in jewelry store robbery
Shopping on High Street, San Fernando, came to a standstill yesterday morning as bandits shot a security guard who attempted to stop them from carrying out a daring daylight heist at a jewelry...
View ArticleThird man charged with Malabar double murder
A third man has been charged with the murders of Haffiza Rose Mohammed 56, and 13-year-old school boy Videsh Subar.appeared before Magistrate Gloria Jasmath in the Arima court.Devon Edwards appeared...
View ArticlePrison officers call for Dillon to step down
The Prisons Officers Association has called for the resignation of National Security Minister Edmund Dillon as they stepped up their demands for better conditions, particularly at the Maximum Security...
View ArticleMinister on tertiary sector: Impossible to continue wholesale funding
Although the current administration has continued to place much emphasis on the provision of education across all levels, senior government officials have said that it is simply impossible to continue...
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