Author: Sean Douglas
PARIA Fuel Trading Co Ltd chairman Newman George said 75 per cent of funds lost in a $1.3 million phishing scam have been retrieved by the company in a court settlement. He made the disclosure in response to questions by Wade Mark, chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts (Enterprises) Committee (PAEC) which sat on January 15 […]
JONES P MADEIRA, 80, is dead. The veteran journalist and former Newsday editor-in-chief died on January 10. Newsday understands that Madeira was admitted to Mt Hope Hospital on January 6, suffering from complications from dementia and Parkinson’s Disease. He had also been hospitalised last May after a fall caused bleeding in the brain. Madeira leaves […]
PARLIAMENT’S Public Accounts Committee (PAC) learnt that while Trinidad and Tobago has 60,000-plus squatting families, the authorities need new laws and more resources/staff to handle this phenomenon. On January 8 at Cabildo Chambers, Port of Spain, the PAC interviewed officials of the Ministry of Housing and Settlements, Land Settlement Agency (LSA) and Commissioner of State […]
AS IN life, so too in death, Lisa Morris-Julian was always there for her children. The D’Abadie/O’Meara MP and two of her children – daughter Xianne Julian, 25, and son Jesiah Julian, six – perished in a fire which gutted the family home on Farfan Street, Arima, on December 16. She had served as MP […]
THE Prime Minister has saluted the late Minister in the Ministry of Education Lisa Morris-Julian by saying that at her recent screening to stand again as PNM candidate for D’Abadie/O’Meara, she had been given no questions to answer about her record. Dr Rowley said this to spell out the esteem in which she was held, […]
MURDERED attorney Randall Hector expressed his abhorrence for the spate of violence crime now taking place in TT, in an address he gave from the podium of the SDA church at Stanmore Avenue, Port of Spain, moments before being slain by gunmen mere feet away from the church he had just left with his family. […]
ATTORNEY Israel Khan, head of the Criminal Bar Association, said the Government should have let the police move stealthily against criminals before publicly declaring a state of emergency (SoE), but had instead tipped off the miscreants who could now easily hide their illegal firearms. He spoke to Newsday on December 31, the day after the […]
THE Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) has expressed its support for the Government’s state of emergency (SoE) enacted to curb the upsurge in violent crime. The SoE empowers the police (and defence force) to carry out searches without warrants, to detain suspects for 48 hours in the first instance and to restrict […]
ROMAN Catholic Archbishop of Port of Spain Jason Gordon urged everyone to forgive family members who offended them in the past, as a way to improve all of their lives and the condition of TT. He urged this be done for the jubilee year of 2025, the launch of which he celebrated by a holy […]
OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar mourned the passing of former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, 92, who died on December 26. “As a former Prime Minister and current Leader of the Opposition, I extend my heartfelt condolences to the government and people of India on the passing of the Honourable. Manmohan Singh former Prime Minister of […]