PM ends Life Sport programme
Read the final report on the Life Sport auditPublished: Friday, July 25, 2014The Life Sport programme has been terminated by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. The final report on the long-awaited...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Carapo detainees want Griffith to apologise
Jensen La VendePublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014Former Life Sport co-ordinator Rajaee Ali, left, gestures as he responds to questions from the media during a press conference at Regius Chambers on...
View ArticleI’ll defend Muslim women with my life—Bakr
Yvonne Webb Yvonne WebbPublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014On the eve of the 24th anniversary of the 1990 attempted coup, the man who led that insurrection, Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr said...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Life Sport Madness
• Anil keeps his job • Criminals infiltrated programme • Fraud, theft and overpayment • Ghost participants and centresGail AlexanderPublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014Leader of Government Business Dr...
View ArticleNo need for me to resign—Anil
SHALIZA HASSALANIPublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014 Insisting that he has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the Life Sport audit, yesterday, Sport Minister Anil Roberts says he will not tender his...
View ArticleMc Comie apologises for ‘silly’ statement
Kalifa ClynePublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014Dennis Mc ComieCommunications Minister Vasant Bharath has apologised to the media for statements made by Dennis Mc Comie, director of communications in the...
View ArticleRowley: Ploy to protect Sport Minister
Richard LordPublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014Sending report to DPP, CoP…Leader of the Opposition Dr Keith Rowley says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s decision to send the audit report into...
View ArticleWarner on Life Sport report— Evidence of naked corruption
RICHARD LORD and GEISHA KOWLESSARRichard LordPublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014Former national security minister Jack Warner spoke of large sums of money being spent for entertainment, video recordings...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sea ambulance, military hospital in the works—Fuad
Anna Lisa PaulPublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan, second from left, and Opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley, right, turn the sod for the construction of the Carenage Health...
View ArticleVital evidence withheld
Dereck AchongPublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014Contempt motion against PSA headA senior manager with the Occupational Safety and Health Authority (Osha), who ruled that health and safety issues at the...
View ArticlePassport office in PoS returns to normal
Kalifa ClynePublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014People from across the country descended on the passport office in Port-of-Spain for “emergency” passports as the office opening hours returned to normal....
View ArticleMan allegedly beaten by soldiers sues State
Dereck AchongPublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014A 35-year-old man, who was left with a broken jaw after he was allegedly ambushed by two soldiers in east Port-of-Spain last week, has taken legal action...
View ArticleUNC, PNM Mayaro abuzz on Rambarat’s ‘candidacy’
Gail AlexanderPublished: Saturday, July 26, 2014UNC Mayaro MP Winston “Gypsy” Peters has acknowledged the 2015 general election will not be the same as PP’s “euphoric” 2010 experience—but he feels his...
View ArticleIan: ‘Noisy’ committed suicide after family squabble
Published: Saturday, July 26, 2014Crime WatchThe host of Crime Watch, Ian Alleyne, was again bombarded with cases this week. One such case led him to his home town of Chaguanas to visit the home and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Price condemns ‘sloppy’ Life Sport audit
SHALIZA HASSANALIPublished: Sunday, July 27, 2014Life Sport Project Director Cornelius Price during an interview with the Sunday Guardian earlier this month. PHOTO: MICHEAL BRUCELife Sport programme...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bakr: I can solve the crime
Published: Sunday, July 27, 2014Abu BakrLeader of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen Yasin Abu Bakr is “back in the field.” Bakr, who 24 years ago today led the historic attempted coup to overthrow the...
View ArticleFuad sidelined
...as Cabinet appoints committee to oversee health sectorRENUKA SINGHPublished: Sunday, July 27, 2014Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan has been sidelined with the formation of a new Cabinet-appointed health...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Life Sport audit: Malabar company gets $5.5m in less than two years
...for rental of tents, chairs and portable toiletsSHALIZA HASSALANIPublished: Sunday, July 27, 2014Sport Minister Anil Roberts responds to a comment from an Opposition MP during the debate in...
View ArticleLife Sport audit: $34m lost on stalled project
RENUKA SINGHPublished: Sunday, July 27, 2014A vague multi-million dollar contract and poorly outfitted centres cost the Life Sport programme $34 million for an incomplete training project. The contract...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seales: Comfort police came like thief in the night
SHALIZA HASSALANIPublished: Sunday, July 27, 2014Members of the newly formed Community Comfort Patrol unit during the launch of the pilot project at the Police Academy, St James, on Thursday. PHOTO:...
View Article