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THE Eastern Lawyers Association has endorsed the call by the Law Association (LATT) for security to be provided to prosecutors and judicial officers, on request, in the wake of the murder of attorney Randall Hector. The 43-year-old attorney was gunned down in front of his family as they were leaving the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on […]

The Finance Minister has extended the tax and national insurance amnesties to January 31. This will be retroactive to December 31, 2024. In a release, the Finance Ministry said the necessary orders to extend the deadline would be published on January 3. It reminded the public that the extended tax amnesty covers penalties and interest […]

The board of governors of the National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (NIHERST) was awarded by the Integrity Commission for achieving 100 per cent compliance in filing declarations of income, assets and liabilities as well as statements of registrable interests for the year ending December 31, 2023. Integrity Commission chairman Haydn Gittens […]

THE Tobago House of Assembly’s Division of Food Security, Natural Resources Environment and Sustainable Development has released separate public advisories on risks posed to the public regarding stinging nettles and cow itch. In its first release, on January 2, the division said it wanted to sensitise the public to the dangers of the bouhmadou plant/vine, […]

The Law Association has said it sincerely hopes the objectives of the state of emergency (SoE) will be realised in the shortest possible time as it noted, “Nefarious gang violence may be the target of the prescribed treatment, but the corpus of our citizenry must also endure the treatment.” The association sent a statement on […]

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, […]

Part II IN ACCORDANCE with the terms of union, in 1889 the attorney general of Trinidad was required to visit and hear cases in Tobago periodically. At union Justice John Gorrie began hearing cases, and after presiding over two sessions in the court there were two contradictory reactions to his presence in Tobago. He was […]

JIMMY CARTER and Manmohan Singh, who died on December 29 and 26 respectively, shared a common trait: leadership without ego. Mr Carter famously moved from being a peanut farmer to serving as the 39th US president. Mr Singh, India’s first Sikh prime minister, was often called “the accidental prime minister” and described as a “reluctant […]

As 2025 begins, here’s a recap of the performance of some economic sectors in the past year and projects expected to be implemented in the new year. Renewable energy In the renewable energy sector, according to the Geological Society of TT (GSTT), bp and Shell’s Project Lara was planned to be a 112MW project which […]

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. […]