Author: Jada Loutoo
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THE Privy Council has dismissed an appeal filed by the Finance Minister Colm Imbert and the Cabinet challenging the Appeal Court’s decision to allow Auditor General Jaiwantee Ramdass to pursue her lawsuit objecting to a probe of her approach to auditing the 2023 public accounts. The ruling means her lawsuit will go ahead in the […]
IN under a year, a Marabella man was tried on charges of shooting with intent, occurring in 2023, and sentenced by the High Court. “This trial meets the aspirational goal of determining indictable offences within one year of the accused being charged,” Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds acknowledged. She referred to the recommendations of the Caribbean Court […]
A 23-year-old man who allegedly presented a fake tint exemption to licensing officers in a roadblock on November 1 has been granted $90,000 own bail by a High Court master. Kavir Maharaj appeared before Master Shabiki Cazabon on November 4, on two counts of forgery and two counts of uttering a forged document. He was […]
A HIGH Court judge has sentenced two men for the 2010 murder of a Freeport man and the kidnapping of his common-law wife and baby during a robbery at their home. Layne Williams will remain in jail for another seven years, nine months and 14 days. His accomplice Anton Gay will serve five years, nine […]
A High Court judge has ordered the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) to pay one of its vendors $1.1 million for breaching an agreement to provide field service agents for its Blink operations for three years in 2017. In a ruling on October 9, Justice Avason Quinlan-William found TSTT in breach of its […]
TWO men who were teenagers when they killed another teen in Maracas Bay in 2013 have been released by a High Court judge who sentenced them earlier this week. The two – Khalid Abdul Malik and Sherkeem Hernandez – were 15 when they, and a man killed Reno David, 17, on October 18, 2013. The […]
A HIGH COURT judge has joined the consultancy firm involved in the promotion assessment process in a lawsuit over the rank of assistant superintendent of police. Justice Frank Seepersad is also likely to give a decision in the challenge brought by Insp Mark Hernandez, former head of the now-defunct Special Operations Response Team (SORT), on […]
A SECONDARY school teacher will receive his salary arrears and interest for a violation of his rights by the Teaching Service Commissioner (TSC) in a seven-year delay in interviewing him to determine his suitability for teaching physics and integrated science. Prakash Sugremsingh, a Teacher I at Barrackpore East Secondary, won his lawsuit against the TSC […]
A HIGH COURT judge has granted an injunction to a businessman featured in a post on the Is This Your Man – T&T and Caribbean? Facebook account. Justice Margaret Mohammed granted the injunction on October 25. The judge allowed the businessman to serve the injunction and lawsuit on the administrators of the social media page […]
ANOTHER ex-member of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) has been given the green light to pursue a lawsuit over being placed on suspension for over two years owing to a completed investigation into the deaths of two suspects in the murder of Andrea Bharatt. On October 28, Justice Karen Reid allowed PC Vishard Persad […]