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PM on Roopnarine’s e-mail: Suruj has no role in award of contracts
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has said, thus far, allegations contained in an e-mail sent to her by junior Works Minister Stacy Roopnarine on a contract bidding issue have not been evidenced in...
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Residents still angry months after oil spill
Marabella resident Akimoo Roger says his son, daughter and wife are still sick and is calling on state-owned oil company Petrotrin to release medical reports and provide compensation for residents. In...
View ArticleDookeran lists recalled envoys
Foreign Service officers of various levels and new ambassadors are heading T&T’s missions in the UK, Canada, India, Costa Rica and the United Nations mission in New York, according to information...
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Suruj admits Manzan needs major work: Worse than we thought
The Mayaro-Manzanilla flood damage is far more extensive than initially thought, Works and Transport Minister Suruj Rambachan admitted yesterday. As such, Government will be transporting pumps into the...
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Locals vex over contract award
Local Content Chamber president Lennox Sirjuesingh has taken issue with the announcement that a Danish firm is being considered to address the collapse of the Manzanilla/Mayaro road. Works and...
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Family living in ‘jail’ as police hunt Azmon
Having committed no crime, faced no judge or jury, an Arima family is now in jail. Unlike the Maximum Security Prison, their holding cells are not located behind high walls and barbed wire fences but...
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SRC, CPO mum on talks over Carmona’s $
Members of the Salaries Review Commission (SRC) and the Chief Personnel Office (CPO) are refusing to divulge any details of the four-hour meeting held yesterday to discuss President Anthony Carmona's...
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Suruj on Stacy’s e-mail to PM: We are still close
Works Minister Suruj Rambachan yesterday said the e-mail to the Prime Minister by his ministerial junior, Stacy Roopnarine, had not affected his working relationship with Roopnarine “at all.” He was...
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Warner wants more info on $ for CAL’s boss
Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Jack Warner says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar deliberately omitted to mention to Parliament all the perks and allowances paid to Caribbean Airlines’...
View ArticleHosein is new chairman of Integrity Commission
Retired Justice of Appeal Zainool Hosein has been appointed the new chairman of the Integrity Commission. A press release issued yesterday stated Hosein was expected to be sworn in today at the Office...
View ArticleRoget on appeal by Petrotrin on fired 68: It’s barking up wrong tree
President general of the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union Ancel Roget says state-owned oil company National Petroleum (NP) is barking up the wrong tree by securing a stay of the Industrial Court’s order...
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In wake of threats over Petrotrin oil spill- Security increased
Security at Petrotrin installations was beefed last night as the state-owned oil company raised its threat alert after a cryptic warning was issued in a video posted on Youtube from the group Anonymous...
View ArticleExperts consider building new ‘Manzan’ road
Engineering officials and some Manzanilla residents said yesterday said it might be more feasible to leave the dilapidated Manzanila-Mayaro Main Road as is and chart a new route further inland. This...
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Shaky start Queries over Zainool’s link to Jack
The Opposition People’s National Movement trusts that new Integrity Commission chairman, retired judge Zainool Hosein, will be guided by propriety in matters pertaining to any conflict of interest....
View ArticleNo conflict of interest —Hosein
Retired Appeal Court Judge Zainool Hosein, who was appointed chairman of the Integrity Commission yesterday, says he sees no conflict of interest in also being president of the Retired Judges...
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Relatives of shot Diego man: Ambushed by cops
Relatives of 19-year-old Ray Phillips of Richplain, Diego Martin, claim he was ambushed and killed by police. However, police say Phillips and other members of a gang opened fire on them so they had to...
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Fire victim takes to streets for help
After losing all her possessions in a fire six months ago, mother of one Michelle Francis has been depending on the kindness of strangers, begging for money on the streets of San Fernando. While she...
View Article1 on $1m bail, five remanded
One man was granted $1 million bail yesterday after he was charged with marijuana possession while the five other men jointly charged were remanded in custody and will reappear in court next week....
View ArticleNipdec chairman: Car parks for Arima, Sando
The National Insurance Property Development Co Ltd (Nipdec) is seeking to construct carparks in Arima, San Fernando and Chaguanas. Its income at the end of the fiscal year in June was $59.9 million,...
View ArticleNipdec chairman: Car parks for Arima, Sando
The National Insurance Property Development Co Ltd (Nipdec) is seeking to construct carparks in Arima, San Fernando and Chaguanas. Its income at the end of the fiscal year in June was $59.9 million,...
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