Author: Sean Douglas

LABOUR Minister Stephen Mc Clashie told reporters he was bowing out as MP for La Brea, although signalling he would still support the PNM in any way the party may require. He spoke to reporters before entering the Senate on January 21, days after not getting the nod to return as MP but with the […]

OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar was gushing in praise for new US President Donald Trump, while damning the work of the former Joe Biden administration. She issued a statement on January 20, minutes after Trump’s inauguration for a second term, as the 47th president. She said it was a great day for democracy. “I sincerely congratulate […]

BROADCASTER Hans Des Vignes said on January 20 he felt quite humbled to be a nominee for the PNM to consider to become the next MP for Diego Martin West, a seat held by the Prime Minister, who has indicated he will soon be bowing out of electoral politics. Dr Rowley has not yet announced […]

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 […]