Author: Sean Douglas
FERRIES, yoga lessons, millet farming and cancer treatment were just a few areas in which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to help the countries of Caricom. He addressed the Caricom-India Summit in Guyana, on November 20. Arriving from the G20 meeting in Brazil into Guyana at midnight on November 19, Modi received the keys […]
MINISTER of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds says restorative justice can provide a cheaper alternative to incarceration, plus better outcomes for both victim and offender. He was addressing the opening ceremony and panel discussion to mark Restorative Justice Week on November 18 at the Prisons Sports Club, as reported in a ministry statement. It was hosted […]
NATIONAL Transformation Alliance (NTA) political leader Gary Griffith named potential candidates for six constituencies ahead of next year’s general elections, at a briefing at the party headquarters in Mt Lambert on November 16. They are Jairzinho Rigsby (Arima), Dr Kevin Sarran (San Fernando West), Savita Pierre (Tunapuna), Christine Newallo-Hosein (Toco/Sangre Grande) and Bernie Maharaj (Port […]
THE House of Representatives will meet on November 18, to debate five nominees proposed as members of the Police Service Commission. The Order Paper lists the nominees as Dr Wendell C Wallace, Annika Fritz-Browne, Ethel Hector-Berkeley, Roger Babooram and Ian Kevin Ramdhanie, the latter being a member of the former commission. The Prime Minister will […]
BOTH the executive of the police service and the TT Police Social and Welfare Association (TTPSWA) told Newsday on November 12, that they were willing to meet each other over the controversy over whether police officers must sign in their firearms before entering any law courts. DCP Junior Benjamin said most police officers were in […]
BARATATIA/SAN JUAN MP Saddam Hosein claims the PNM has enjoyed free broadcasts of its rallies on six occasions on state television TTT, in a statement on October 28. He alleged six such dates in 2021 and 2022, in a statement titled, state-owned television must be free of political interference. Hosein lamented TTT’s “coincidental” “technical difficulties” […]
ENERGY Minister Stuart Young was unfazed by attorney Nyree Alfonso’s assertion that money from the potential sale of the tugboat Solo Creed would not cover the costs of the clean-up of the oil-spill off Tobago. He replied via WhatsApp to questions from Newsday on October 28. On February 7, the tugboat was towing the barge […]
DR AMERY BROWNE, Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs, is undaunted by the negative signals coming from the United Kingdom regarding calls by Caribbean leaders for slavery reparations voiced at the Commonwealth heads meeting in Samoa. Practised on an industrial scale, for 400 years the Transatlantic Slave Trade consumed 12-20 million African men, women and […]
THE Prime Minister described certain members of the opposition as “louts” and “miscreants” for their criticism of Indian industrialist Navin Jindal, whom he said had been highlighted in a prominent booklet at the Commonwealth heads meeting in Samoa he is attending with Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne. Dr Rowley made the criticism on his […]
OPPOSITION Senator Jayanti Lutchmedial-Ramdial lamented a lack of police vehicles patrolling the nation’s streets, chiding the government for both poor acquisition and poor maintenance of these. She spoke in the Senate budget debate on October 22, lamenting the upsurge in violent crime. Asking if the government was keeping people safe at night, she said the […]