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POLICE officers throughout the country are currently training in the use of the new breathalyser devices and will be out on the nation’s roads with them ’soon’, said Assist ant Commissioner of Police (Mobile) Wayne Richards.
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American Idol judge and annihilator of many would-be stars’ dreams, Simon Cowell recently wrote a letter to himself. Actually, the letter is to his ’shallow, reckless, cocky younger self.’ The letter was written to celebrate his birthday this year. In the letter, Cowell takes aim at his youthful version and chastises him for the mistakes and choices that he made. Indeed it is, in...
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It was in Barbados that I first encountered the use of ’unfair’ as a verb. Our office was next to the Wanderers ground and I often wandered across to watch cricket. One day, this player who believed that he was given what in Trinidad would be called a ’bad’ out, was extremely upset when he came off the field and said, ’The umpire unfaired me.’ He did not say cheated...
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Edward Seaga was prime minister of Jamaica during the 1983 invasion of Grenada by forces of the United States of America. Jamaica sent a peacekeeping contingent. Seaga presents a graphic picture of the events leading up to, during and after the invasion in his book, The Grenada Intervention, the Inside Story. Seaga captures the controversial period during which Prime Minister Eric Gairy, his Grenada...
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THE first 50,000 doses of influenza A/H1N1 vaccine have arrived and, according to Minister of Health, Jerry Narace, decision-makers will be among the first people to get inoculated.
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A 13-year-old schoolboy was stabbed to death mere metres from his home yesterday afternoon.
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The Evidence Amendment Bill, which was passed yesterday by Government’s majority vote in Parliament, has flaws which can even facilitate policemen framing innocent people, says Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday.
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The ’People’s Space’ has been developed at a cost of approximately $4 million, Culture Minister Marlene McDonald said yesterday, and will be officially opened to the public at 5 p.m. today at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain.
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Labour Minister Rennie Dumas says the call from the People’s Democracy for citizens to stay away from work on Monday and Tuesday will fall on deaf ears.
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-of-Spain, Nov 20 (IANS) French President Nicholas Sarkozy and UN chief Ban Ki-moon will be attending the Commonwealth of Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the Trinidad and Tobago capital Nov 27-29 as special guests, Prime Minister Patrick Manning said. Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen will also attend.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Some 300 military personnel and 150 police officers from Caricom are expected to be in Trinidad and Tobago during the period of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), National Security Minister Martin Joseph said yesterday.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Securing crews from public utilities providers such as the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) ’is a challenge’, but one that will be resolved, National Security Minister Martin Joseph said at yesterday’s post-Cabinet news conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Trinidad and Tobago has no official position on calls for the suspension of Gambia from the Commonwealth because of the controversial statements made by its President, Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh, Foreign Affairs Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon said yesterday.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A draft climate change policy for Trinidad and Tobago was submitted to the Cabinet yesterday, less than a week before the issue is set to take centre stage during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Port of Spain.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Public Administration Minister, Kennedy Swaratsingh, yesterday suggested that Government was not responsible for the delay in approving the Penn State Justice and Safety Institute as the organisation to screen candidates for the position of Commissioner of Police.
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