Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Economist Dr Eric St Cyr and former Independent Senator Parvatee Anmolsingh-Mahabir are two persons whom President George Maxwell Richards have on his list as potential prospects to serve on the Integrity Commission.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday has sent off his list of recommendations for persons to serve on the Integrity Commission to President George Maxwell Richards.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Six months following the collapse of the Integrity Commission, President George Maxwell Richards is ready to appoint new people to serve.
Newsday (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Suspension looms over the heads of seven officers of the Port-of-Spain City Police after it was discovered that the pictures of the Port-of-Spain Mayor Murchison Brown and President George Maxwell-Richards were stolen during the early hours of Thursday morning.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Rekindling West Indian hope: That was the assessment of president of the Republic, George Maxwell Richards as he showered praises on the national team for their ’stellar’ performance during the Airtel Champions League Twenty/20 tournament in India last month where they finished runners-up to New South Wales Blues.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Eid treat: A woman ladles out some sawine for her sister during Eid celebrations at the La Romaine Jamaat open-air Gha yesterday. -Photo: DEXTER PHILIPPeace and equilibrium are under serious attack, President George Maxwell Richards has said. In his annual Eid-ul-Fitr message Richards said the Eid celebrations came at a time of upheaval including the economic downturn, and the shakings of patterns...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
President George Maxwell Richards has advised that the will and determination of the Indian indentured labourers, who first came to this country 164 years ago, should guide and help us through the current economic hardships. "Recollection of what sustained the few hundred men and women who came in 1845 and those who followed can guide us to an understanding that all of us of whatever background,...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 02/17/2009
King: Spain to set up embassy in T&TKristy Ramnarine kramnarine@trinidadexpress.com Tuesday, February 17th 2009ROYALTY ON THE RED CARPET: Spanish King Juan Carlos I, centre, and his wife, Queen Sofia, are escorted down the red carpet by Prime Minister Patrick Manning, right, and his wife, Hazel, behind, shortly after their arrival yesterday at the Piarco International Airport. The visiting royals...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
President George Maxwell Richards says he has referred the question of removing Senior Counsel Israel Khan from the Commission of Enquiry into the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT) and the construction sector to Prime Minister Patrick Manning. In a media release issued yesterday, the Office of the President stated that the provisions of the Commission of Enquiry Act, which...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
The bailout bills are now law. Around 6 p.m., with the stroke of President George Maxwell Richards's pen, Government gained control of the shares of CLICO (as the provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding came into effect) and the Central Bank obtained extensive powers to treat with the CL Financial collapse and the consequent systemic crisis. The bills, which were deemed too crucial to fail, were...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 02/04/2009
Prof John Uff will make a statement at today's sitting of the Commission of Enquiry into the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT) and the construction sector on developments relating to a request by attorneys for the corporation and its executive chairman Calder Hart, for Israel Khan SC to be removed as one of the probers. Uff, who heads the four-member commission, was responding...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 01/30/2009
in discussions: Chairman of the Commission of Enquiry into UDeCOTT and the construction sector Prof John Uff, right, chats with fellow commissioners from left Desmond Thornhill, Kenneth Sirju and Israel Khan SC at Winsure Building, Richmond Street, Port of Spain, yesterday at the close of the day's hearing. -Photo: ROBERTO CODALLOA lawsuit against the Commission of Enquiry into the Urban Development...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 01/29/2009
Khan posed several questions to Hart concerning his executive chairmanship of UDeCOTT, but said that he was only doing so in the commission's effort to find the facts. Uff, Khan, and the other commissioners, Desmond Thornhill and Kenneth Sirju, all received their appointments from President George Maxwell Richards, who established the enquiry on the advice of Prime Minister Patrick Manning, based on...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 01/22/2009
Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP) candidate Rolly Quaccoo has held on to his seat after a recount of the ballots in the Canaan/Bon Accord district in Monday's Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election. He was declared the winner of the seat by returning officer Rawle Mitchell shortly after 3 p.m. yesterday by a wider margin of five votes. His PNM opponent, Frank Roberts, an Assistant Secretary...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 01/21/2009
A committee established by the Tobago House of Assembly (THA), which has been looking at Tobago's relationship with the Parliament as part of the ongoing constitutional reform exercise, is expected to continue its work after the next THA administration is sworn into office. The committee, led by Dr John Prince, will return to its work after President George Maxwell Richards swears in the new Tobago...
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