By Sacha Wilson Published: 23 Sep 2009 – guardian.co.tt The State has to pay the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, which operates Central Broadcasting Services Ltd, close to $3 million in damages for its unequal treatment and delay in granting them a FM radio broadcasting licence. Justice Ronnie Boodoosingh awarded compensatory and vindicatory damages yesterday by … Continue reading Govt to pay Maha Sabha $3M for radio licence delay
By Onika James September 19, 2009 – newsday.co.tt Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s veto of Carla Brown-Antoine for the post of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Government’s “retrograde step” to set up a Ministry of Justice are “dark clouds” over the Judiciary and the administration of justice, Law … Continue reading PM’s Veto Unfathomable
Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog Following is the full text of the address by Chief Justice Ivor Archie at the opening of the 2009/2010 Law Term at the Convocation Hall, Hall of Justice, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain. September 16, 2009 Because of the particular focus that I want to adopt for this year’s opening address … Continue reading Address by Chief Justice Ivor Archie at the opening of the 2009/2010 Law Term
By Andre Bagoo September 13, 2009 – newsday.co.tt Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog ACTING Commissioner of Police James Philbert yesterday assured that a controversial affidavit containing allegations made by the Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Abu Bakr involving Prime Minister Patrick Manning “will receive full attention” and be investigated by the police. “If a judge … Continue reading Philbert: We will investigate Bakr affidavit
newsday.co.tt Sunday, September 6 2009 Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog THE HEARINGS of the fourth and final phase of the Uff Commission of Inquiry into Udecott, which was expected to start tomorrow, was yesterday adjourned “until further notice” by its chairman Professor John Uff. In an email sent by the inquiry’s secretariat to all … Continue reading Uff inquiry postponed until further notice
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe August 01, 2009 – trinicenter.com www.trinidadandtobagonews.com (A lecture delivered by Professor Cudjoe at the 9th Annual Emancipation Day Dinner of the National Association for the Empowerment of African People [NAEAP] at the Center of Excellence, Tunapuna, Trinidad, July 31, 2009. Professor Cudjoe is the president of NAEAP.)
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu July 19, 2009 www.trinidadandtobagonews.com The recent accusation by UNC’s Dr. Tim Gopeesingh of “ethnic cleansing” of Indian-Trinbagonian, not Indo-Trinbagonian, doctors at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital at the supposed hands of the PNM-Manning administration, smacks of an innocuous similarity of “reverse discrimination” by Euro-White Americans whenever African-Americans seem to make some modicum … Continue reading ‘Ethnic cleansing’ of Whom in T&T?
By Raffique Shah Sunday, July 12th 2009 www.trinidadandtobagonews.com EVEN as this column appears in print today, there is a “unity rally” being held at Skinner Park in San Fernando. Its promoters have invited people of every political persuasion, even those who do not belong to any party, to attend. The rally, they say, is intended … Continue reading Dawn of a new era
Newsday Editorial Friday, July 10 2009 www.trinidadandtobagonews.com Wednesday’s decisions of the Appeal Court in upholding two crucial appeals, one against the quashing by the Prime Minister of a Foreign Affairs officer’s appointment to a position at the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission in London, the other against the PM’s vetoing of a promotion in the … Continue reading Unfair treatment
By George Alleyne July 08, 2009 – newsday.co.tt www.trinidadandtobagonews.com It is as inexcusably absurd for the Office of the Prime Minister to have so much power under the Constitution with respect to the appointment of the Chief Justice, the Solicitor General and the Director of Public Prosecutions as it is for the Opposition to frustrate … Continue reading Why the Privy Council?