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Pre-action letters a last resort
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Monday, November 3, 2014Law Made SimpleBefore filing a civil claim, the court expects that parties comply with pre-action protocols to act reasonably in exchanging relevant...
View ArticleOudit quits as leader of ILP
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Tuesday, November 4, 2014After serving less than six months at the helm of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), Lyndira Oudit stunned many when she resigned from the position...
View ArticleT&T’s crime fight in limbo
No new commissioners yet so...Published: Tuesday, November 4, 2014President Anthony Carmona’s inability to fill top posts in the Police Service Commission (PSC), Police Complaints Authority (PCA) and...
View ArticleFruitless search for missing four
Published: Tuesday, November 4, 2014Police and members of the Regiment spent close to half of yesterday searching a thickly forested area in Brasso Seco in the hopes of finding a missing family. It has...
View ArticleDoctors threaten protest over $$
Shirvan WilliamsPublished: Tuesday, November 4, 2014Some type of protest action by doctors may be in the offing, according to a statement from the Medical Professionals Association (MPATT). Health...
View ArticleCouple charged with abandoning 2 children
Sascha WilsonPublished: Tuesday, November 4, 2014The parents of two young children have been granted $200,000 bail for allegedly abandoning them in a car at PriceSmart, La Romaine. Kerry Wells, 24, a...
View ArticlePriceSmart worker on $10m fraud charges
Published: Tuesday, November 4, 2014A 31-year-old PriceSmart supervisor has been released on bail after appearing in court charged with defrauding his employer of over ten million dollars over a...
View ArticleWayne too weak to speak
Kalifa ClynePublished: Tuesday, November 4, 2014Environmental activist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh was too weak to speak to the media yesterday but his wife Dr Sylvia Moodie-Kublalsingh said his condition...
View ArticleRowley: Govt okays plan for temporary public servants
Richard LordPublished: Tuesday, November 4, 2014Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley says Cabinet has approved a measure which will allow it to employ temporary public servants instead of the Public...
View ArticlePNM shifting from stand-alone policy
Gail AlexanderPublished: Wednesday, November 5, 2014The Opposition PNM will contest all 41 seats in the 2015 general election but will consider options if, in the event of no clear majority result,...
View ArticleAntigua/Barbuda PM on Ebola: Caricom must stand together
Geisha KowlessarPublished: Wednesday, November 5, 2014Caribbean leaders have adopted a ten-point plan of action to ensure the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) does not reach the region. Cuba is also...
View ArticleMatt: Highway ads an attack on media
Published: Wednesday, November 5, 2014The Media Association (Matt) has expressed “serious concern” over the advertising campaign being run by a group called Citizens 4D Highway. MATT described the...
View ArticleMinister on Rowley’s claims: We are just modernising public service
Published: Wednesday, November 5, 2014Public Administration Minister Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan says the Government is not interfering in the recruitment and selection of individuals for permanent...
View ArticleBring back my ‘heart’
Grandpa to abductors of familyJensen La VendePublished: Wednesday, November 5, 2014The grandfather of the missing one-year-old child from Brasso Seco is calling on whoever has his “heart”, as he called...
View ArticleCop shot but 2 robbers killed
Published: Wednesday, November 5, 2014JENSEN LA VENDE and SHARLENE RAMPERSADPolice have shot and killed two suspected robbers in two separate incidents in north and south Trinidad. The first incident...
View ArticleRamadhar on Govt, HRM impasse: Mediation in doubt
Kalifa ClynePublished: Wednesday, November 5, 2014Legal Affairs Minister Prakash Ramadhar yesterday expressed doubt that mediation efforts were possible in the current impasse between Government and...
View ArticleProject designed for 1,600 cars an hour
Point highway controversy—Part 4Urvashi Tiwari RoopnarinePublished: Wednesday, November 5, 2014The man whose expertise lies at the centre of the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension to Point Fortin, Dr Rae...
View ArticleHomeless couple refuse old home
Tormented by neighbours...Shirvan WilliamsPublished: Wednesday, November 5, 2014Even though former national lightweight boxer Wendell Joseph and his disabled wife Erica have been living rough in the...
View ArticleFlawed discipline for cops
60 charged officers still on payrollKalifa ClynePublished: Wednesday, November 5, 2014A flawed disciplinary system within the Police Service has resulted in suspended police officers being paid...
View ArticleScotiabank closing 35 Caribbean branches
Published: Wednesday, November 5, 2014Canada’s Scotiabank announced in Toronto yesterday that it would close 35 of its over 200 branches in the Caribbean and that it would sever 1,500 full-time...
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