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Clear my son's name' Saxophonist on secret list of recipients for grants Sita Bridgemohan Sunday, December 6th 2009 A woman identifying herself as Culture Minister Marlene McDonald called saxophonist Jesse Ryan at his home, on his mother’s cell phone,...
Tags: Jesse Ryan, Mrs Ryan, Ministry of Sports, Culture Ministry, culture minister, Marlene McDonald, secret list, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, Chaguanas, James-Younger Gang, Entertainment Culture
Prime Minister Patrick Manning appears to be considering going back to the polls, sources say. The question however is when and what poll-local, general or both. The Political Leader of the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) Patrick Manning summoned...
Tags: Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Elections in Trinidad and Tobago, Colm Imbert, Texaco, Politics, House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago, Manning, Patrick Manning
Lakshmi Pundit, the niece of Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday and MP for Princes Town North Subhas Panday, died yesterday from asthma and pneumonia at the Intensive Care Unit of the San Fernando General Hospital. Pundit, 30 of Princes Town, was warded...
Tags: swine flu, Subhas Panday, PERSAD Lakshmi Pundit, Trinidad and Tobago, Princes Town, Basdeo Panday, Pandemics, Panday, Swine influenza, flu pandemic, Influenza pandemic
Paving the way to the Red House COP opens Flagship House... Winston Dookeran, Political Leader of the Congress of the People, confidently declared yesterday that the party was moving to greater heights with the launch of its new Flagship House which he...
Tags: Red House COP, JERMAINE CRUICKSHANK Winston Dookeran, Flagship House, Spain, Madrid, Winston Dookeran, Trinidad and Tobago, Politics, Congress of the People, Gerald Yetming, Snap election, National Democratic Alliance, United National Congress
Caroni workers to receive Letters of Offer After six-year wait by Ariti Jankie South Bureau Sunday, December 6th 2009 After six years of waiting, ex-workers of Caroni (1975) Limited will finally receive Letters of Offer to lease residential lots. Over...
Tags: Caroni, receive letters, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Labor, Caroni Trinidad and Tobago, Geography of Trinidad and Tobago
Today, BVS celebrates the life and work of this adopted son of the soil who left his janma bhoomi (birthland) India to settle and serve the people of Trinidad and Tobago. ’I have lived and enjoyed every moment of my life in Trinidad. Today, when I see...
Tags: Institute of Indian Knowledge, Hari Shankar Adesh, BVS, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, London, Indo-Aryan languages, Bollywood songs, Hindi, Culture of India, Hindustani, Languages of India, Dialects of Hindi, Entertainment Culture
Summits conquered, now for the valleys Sunday, December 6th 2009 We expect that citizens will continue to question the extraordinary costs of the two major summits held in Trinidad and Tobago this year and the benefits to be derived from them. We expect...
Tags: Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Public finance, Reclaimed water, Effluent, Tax, Environmental engineering, Government debt, Sewerage, Water pollution
Wanting to see the Queen Martin Daly Sunday, December 6th 2009 I had not intended to return to the subject of our new concert hall but the response of two members of my Alberto Street posse to last week’s column as well as the activities of two visiting...
Tags: Mr Warner, Brown/Warner, prime ministers, Jack Warner, Mr Brown, Gordon Brown, Derek Walcott, ministers brown, concert hall, Casablanca Steel Orchestra, United Kingdom, London, Trinidad and Tobago, Prime minister, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Casablanca, Kevin Rudd, Steelpan, Entertainment Culture
Sunday December 6, 2009 Claude Clarke, Contributor With the public's attention now drawn to Jamaica's unique economic experience of having an economic meltdown in the midst of an unprecedented global economic expansion during the 1990s, much name-calling,...
Tags: Jamaica, Kingston, Politics, Edward Seaga, Portia Simpson-Miller, Deficit, Business Finance, Bruce Golding, Eric Williams, Inflation, Asian Financial Crisis, Government debt, Politics of Jamaica, Accountability, Monetary policy, Public finance, Bureaucracy, Reaganomics, Outline of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Civil service, Law, International Monetary Fund, Commonwealth Heads of Government, Island countries
Enter the drama queen, stage right Judy Raymond Sunday, December 6th 2009 Community Development Minister Marlene McDonald appeared quite early in Friday’s sitting of the House, ostentatiously clutching her statement on her ministry’s controversial grants...
Tags: Ms McDonald, herring ministry, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, McDonald's legal cases, McDonald's, Macdonald