UFF Report for Senate today
What appears to be extracts from the 500-page report Professor Uff Commission of Enquiry into the Construction Sector and UDECOTT have already appeared in two daily newspapers, however the said report will be laid in the Senate by the Attorney General this afternoon.
The Report has 91 recommendations and there were few surprises: embattled former UDECOTT [...]
UFF:Evidence strong for court
By Andre Bagoo, Newsday
Commission of Enquiry into the construction sector, which has made recommendations that UDECOTT
projects be further probed….Read more in Newsday….
Commission of Inquiry into the construction sector, which has made
recommendations that Udecott projects be further probed, is now in the
hands of Attorney General John Jeremie after inquiry chairman Professor
John Uff QC yesterday presented his [...]
Will Govt make Uff report public?
Professor Uff scheduled to present his long awaited report today. Can one obtain a copy from the Government printery soon?
Professor John Uff will present the long-awaited report of the Commission of Enquiry into UDECOTT and the Construction Sector to President George Maxwell Richards this morning but the question is whether the Government will make the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]