PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says she will not be rushed into making any public statement on international reports that her National Security Minister Austin “Jack” Warner may be implicated in a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe involving soccer’s global governing body. “I will not rely on published reports in the media, but will again seek to get official corroboration of the information now in the public domain before making any determination or pronouncement,” Persad Bissessar said in a statement late Wednesday. Opposition Leader Dr.
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Journalist Anika Gumbs-Sandiford has retained former attorney general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj as she pursues legal action against Sports Minister Anil Roberts for defamation.
“I have been advised by Senior Counsel that the words spoken and published amount to serious slander and libel and would entitle me to be vindicated by the court in respect to my character and reputation as an investigative journalist.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The fight against dengue, which is spread by the Aedes Egypti mosquito, costs the Caribbean a whopping US$321 million per annum. Prof Christine Carrington revealed this figure in her professorial inaugural lecture at Noor Hassanali auditorium, Faculty of Law, St Augustine Campus, on Thursday. Among those present were Prof Dean Ramsewak, Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences, and PhD student (Molecular Genetics) Orchid Allicock.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Sports Minister Anil Roberts says he will take legal action against several journalists and media houses as well as the chair person of his Congress of the People (COP) political party amid allegations that he was being investigated by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) in relation to a complaint of alleged misappropriation of funds at the Trinidad and Tobago Boxing Board of Control.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - As in all areas of crime-fighting and, indeed, law and order, successive T&T administrations have fallen short in combating, let alone suppressing, the traffic in illicit drugs. As the United States State Department's latest Narcotics Report reminds T&T, this country has been less than a fully fledged ally in the US-led war on drugs.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Police Social and Welfare Association (PSWA) Wednesday said that Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams had been ill advised when he refused to grant permission to police officers to take a candle light vigil to the police administration building.
The PSWA is staging a prayer and candle light procession later on Wednesday night to demonstrate its rejection of the bid by the Kamla Persad Bissessar administration to give police powers to members of the Defence Force.
PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD - Daryan Warner, the eldest son of National Security Minister Jack Warner, has dismissed speculation that he is under house arrest in the United States.
However, he has steadfastly refused to comment on if he is the subject of any investigation by federal authorities there.
Warner, 47, spoke to the Express in an exclusive interview (that ran on TV6 News last night) at his penthouse suite in Miami, Florida, where we tracked him down last Wednesday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former government minister and diplomat John Donaldson jr died Tuesday at a private hospital after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 71 years old.
Donaldson served as Minister of National Security from 1976 to 1985 and also as Minister of Foreign Affairs in People’s Movement (PNM) administrations.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – National Security Minister Austin “Jack” Warner Tuesday maintained that he had no knowledge of an illegal flying squad operating in Trinidad and Tobago and like the rest of the population he was “anxiously awaiting” the outcome of an investigation ordered by Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar into the matter.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - IN this season of electioneering and politicking in the eastern Caribbean, at least two prime ministers have begun to mobilise supporters for likely polls within coming months.
That’s the current scenario in Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda amid growing speculation that Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr Denzil Douglas, may also feel compelled to move for a snap poll in the face of challenges facing his shaky Labour Party administration.