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Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal during the UNC’s media conference in Chaguanas yesterday.
VASHTI SINGH
Excerpts of the Auditor General’s 2023 report show that an elected MP who isn’t a minister collected approximately $752,000 for rentals of three buildings by three Government Ministries, Oropouche East MP Roodal Moonilal has alleged.
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A member of the public holds up a Hammerhead shark in Tobago yesterday
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The Tobago House of Assembly (THA) yesterday “strongly condemned” the indiscriminate killing of over a dozen sharks at Buccoo, Tobago.
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Barataria MP Saddam Hosein holds up pages from Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass’ report at yesterday’s media conference. picture VASHTI SINGH
San Juan/Barataria MP Saddam Hosein is calling for a police investigation of the public accounts for 2023 to find out what happened with the handing over of those accounts to the Office of the Auditor General.
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St Augustine MP Khadijah Ameen
Although the terms of national executive members will expire in less than two months, the United National Congress still hasn’t declared a date for its contentious internal elections.
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Members of the Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) display their placards as they march along Independence Avenue in San Fernando during the annual May Day march on Wednesday
RISHI RAGOONATH
Convinced that the Government is bent on attacking the labour force, Contractors and General Workers Union president Ermine De Bique-Meade says the trade union movement is all that stands in the way of those who wish to return workers to the plantation.
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Minister of Agriculture Land and Fisheries Kazim Hosein
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A global outbreak of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu or avian flu, has prompted the Chief Veterinary Officer to ban the importation of poultry from Miami, Florida via both air and sea.
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German backpacker Tilo Kruse tells how he got robbed as he walked near Matura in a video.
A popular German backpacker, who was documenting his walk through Trinidad on TikTok, has been robbed.
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The Assembly of Southern Lawyers president Saira Lakhan
President of the Assembly of Southern Lawyers Saira Lakhan supports Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass’ request for the state to pay for her private attorneys as she threatens to take legal action against the Minister of Finance.
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UNC vice chair Khadijah Ameen speaks with reporters following the party’s meeting with the EBC yesterday. At left is former UNC minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh.
ABRAHAM DIAZ
Even after meeting with the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) for nearly three hours yesterday, United National Congress (UNC) officials refused to say whether they have more confidence in the body. Instead, they issued another call for international observers to oversee the next general election.
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Economist, Dr Vaalmikki Arjoon.
There must be a speedy resolution of the issue with the Auditor General and the Minister of Finance to forestall serious concerns about the credibility and accuracy of T&T’s reported fiscal performance in 2023 and national accounting practices, economist Dr Vaalmikki Arjoon said yesterday.
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Former Counter Trafficking Unit Director (CTU) Alana Wheeler
ABRAHAM DIAZ
A defamation lawsuit brought against the Public Services Association (PSA) and its former employee Avellon Williams by former director of the Counter Trafficking Unit (CTU) Alana Wheeler over an online article has been dismissed.
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The Hall of Justice
Persons charged with murder and other indictable offences may get their cases heard in quick time in the High Court, as new criminal procedures are now being applied.
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