Author: Jada Loutoo

A deputy commissioner of police has admitted to giving flawed advice to the consultancy firm involved in the promotion assessment process for the rank of assistant superintendent of police (ASP) to move from the first stage to the second. The admission was made by DCP administration and operational support Natasha George on October 18, in […]

POLICE Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher has agreed to return three licensed firearms to a former soldier who served on the security detail for former police commissioner Gary Griffith. The ex-soldier, who was made a special reserve corporal, was permitted in March to challenge Harewood-Christopher’s decision to vary his FUL (firearm user’s licence), taking back three weapons […]

REGIONAL British American Insurance Co Ltd (BAICO) shareholders from Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada have lost their discrimination claim against Trinidad and Tobago over the 2009 bailout of CL Financial (CLF). On October 22, CCJ President Justice Adrian Saunders and Justices Winston Anderson, Maureen Rajnauth-Lee, Andrew Burgess and Peter Jamadar dismissed their complaint of discriminatory […]

THE Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is on October 22 expected to deliver its ruling on a claim by a group of regional policyholders that the Trinidad and Tobago government’s bailout of local subsidiaries of the CL Financial (CLF) conglomerate was discriminatory. The CCJ’s decision will be delivered on October 22 at 1 pm. The […]

A journalist has apologised to contractor Krishna Lalla for an online publication he wrote and posted on two websites in 2020. Aleem Khan also agreed to retract the article published on February 20, 2020, headlined: Where did the money go? Lalla’s Panama properties found, on his www.news.co.tt and www.connectas.org websites. Khan’s apology and agreement were […]

BUSINESSMAN Steve Ferguson has again failed in his attempt to have the High Court in TT stop the State from demanding information from him as it seeks to enforce a US$131 million judgment against him in Miami. In a ruling on October 15, Justice Frank Seepersad said his latest challenge was almost identical to one […]

A High Court judge will rule on October 15 on an application by businessman Steve Ferguson for an injunction to stop the State from demanding information from him as it seeks to enforce a US$131 million judgment against him in Miami. After lengthy submissions on October 14, Justice Frank Seepersad said he will give his […]

A BELMONT man who was acquitted of the murder of a national footballer in Cocorite in 2011 is now suing the State for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Attorneys for Abdul Charles, 26, filed the claim on October 8. Attorneys Peter Taylor and Nehanda Samuel are representing him. Charles spent over eight years […]

THE Court of Appeal has reserved its ruling on an appeal by Super Industrial Services (SIS) against an alleged move to dispose of its assets pending the resolution of arbitration proceedings over the controversial Beetham Water Treatment Plant. The company appealed a decision of Justice Joan Charles in 2020. Charles had upheld the National Gas […]

A video recording of an identification parade was tendered into evidence as the trial of a man from Oxford Street, Port of Spain, continued on October 9. The recording was tendered during the testimony of former Special Anti-Crime Unit of TT (SAUTT) crime scene investigator Obika Gilleneau. The main prosecution witness, Sparkle Williams, allegedly pointed […]