Jeff Hackett | March 14, 2010 | Public Affairs

THA minority leader calls for forensic audit of UDECOTT

From Tobago News
Ashworth Jack supports call for forensic audit of UDECOTT. Read more in Tobago News….
Minority Leader Ashworth Jack is the latest to add his voice
to the Calder Hart issue.
Jack was at the time speaking with the media at his bi-monthly
media briefing at his Scarborough Mall Office on Tuesday. Jack
also expressed concern over the fact [...]

Nello Lewis | March 10, 2010 | Public Affairs

Where is Calder Hart?

The police have begun probing the C.H. Development contract to build the Legal Towers building. But where is Canada-born Calder Hart and his family?
Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s blue-eyed boy Calder Hart is cooling his heels abroad while the cops today began probing corruption charges at UDECOTT during his tenure as chairman.
The police are doing [...]

TNT Insider Staff | March 7, 2010 | Public Affairs

Govt’s $221 m. rental bill

Almost two years after the Government announced its policy to reduce rental of Government
offices, the plan is no closer to getting off the ground. Read more in the Sunday Guardian….
by
Anika Gumbs-Sandiford, Sunday Guardian reporter
Almost two years after Government announced its policy to reduce rental of
government offices, the plan is no closer to getting off the [...]

TNT Insider Staff | March 7, 2010 | Public Affairs

Panday must go!

Residents from both Couva North and South constituencies yesterday expressed outrage over the
failure of Basdeo Panday and Kelvin Ramnath to support the Leader of the Opposition Kamla
Persad-Bissessar in Parliament.Read more….
By Richardson Dhalai,Sunday Newsday reporter
Residents from both Couva North and South constituencies yesterday
expressed outrage over the failure of Basdeo Panday and Kelvin Ramnath to
support the leader [...]

TNT Insider Staff | February 10, 2010 | Public Affairs

What! Crime not so bad in Trinidad and Tobago!

‘Crime Not So Bad In Trinidad and Tobago’
‘Readers were left in awe and wonder as the former editor of the Guardian and the current editor
battled in the pages of the St Vincent Street newspaper over the Chief Justice’s recent comments
on the country’s crime situation.
Jones P.Madeira, who was editor in the mid-1990s and is now the [...]

TNT Insider Staff | February 3, 2010 | Public Affairs

One more for Integrity Commission

Is there a chartered accountant out there without any “cocoa in the sun” who is ready to stand up and be counted?
President George Maxwell Richards is desperate for such a person so that he can finalise his new-look Integrity Commission- a task he has been involved in since May when the last Integrity [...]

Jeff Hackett | January 14, 2010 | Public Affairs

Max’s final Throne Speech

President Richards’ speech was a slap in the face of an unpopular Government. He has also indicated that he has not yet signed the controversial Property Tax legislation to make it law.

It was probably the finest hour of Professor Max Richard’s six-year Presidency when he addressed the ceremonial opening of Parliament yesterday [...]

TNT Insider Staff | January 8, 2010 | Public Affairs

Fat talk from Peter

Businessmen live off the fat of the land claims the Minister of Legal Affairs. They, of course, also finance the ruling party’s political campaigns.

Are well-to-do and wealthy citizens really living off the fat of Trinidad and Tobago?
More fat talk from Johnny-come-lately politician Peter Taylor who compounded his unfortunate statement which he made [...]

Nello Lewis | January 1, 2010 | Public Affairs

Property tax becomes law today

No Government minister can say what property tax his or herconstituents will have to pay. People will have to wait until March when bills are sent out.

Bloody and unbowed the Government bucked public opinion on the streets, in the airways and in the highest court of the land, Parliament, and , in [...]

TNT Insider Staff | December 31, 2009 | Public Affairs

‘Bad behaviour’ by local magistrates

The Judiciary has been seen as one of our failing institutions. There are reports that suggest that some magistrates are facilitating criminals.

There are disturbing allegations being whispered about unsavoury activities involving magistrates, and their dealing with criminals.
When Appeal Court Judge Justice Stanley John called on two magistrates to resign after overturning sentences [...]

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