PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Express - The revenues that Trinidad and Tobago collects from energy taxes could be significantly higher than what it is currently but companies under-report revenue and sometimes, government doesn’t even collect the taxes, local energy consultant Anthony Paul claimed yesterday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) said it would vote against legislation to introduce proportional representation in Trinidad and Tobago, and has accused the coalition People’s Partnership government of “naked political expediency”.
PNM and Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley, speaking on television here Monday, said opposition legislators would not support “this sleight of hand” strategy by the Kamla Persad Bissessar led government.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - A Nigerian spiritual leader often referred by his devotees as “Jesus Christ living among us” arrives here Wednesday to celebrate the Caribbean presence of his 57-year old organisation.
Olumba Olumba Obu, hopes to meet with politicians and diplomats during the weeklong visit.
National secretary of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, David Jeremie, says an Obu entourage will join with local and regional devotees “to bless the peoples of this country and the Caribbean with peace and liberation from servitude and glory.”
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police Monday fired teargas and engaged in a gun battle with residents of Beetham Gardens, on the outskirts of the capital, protesting the killing of a 23 year-old man by police on Sunday night.
“We were making our way through one of the alleys in the Beetham, when we heard rapid gunfire, and saw resident running in our direction. The police warned us not to go forward because they were in a battle with the resident. We took heed,” Trinidad Express journalist Rickie Ramdass reported.
21 PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Thursday announced that Local Government elections will be held on October 21, but outlined her government’s intention to amend the Municipal Corporations Act. Persad-Bissessar made the announcement at a Post-Cabinet News Conference at the Office of the Prime Minister. The life of local government bodies in Trinidad and Tobago came to an end on July 26th by law Local Government elections are due by within three (3) months after the life of the municipal corporations came to an end.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) has described as “vulgar” the decision of the government to amend the Municipal Corporations Act to introduce the concept of proportional representation in Trinidad and Tobago. Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, announcing the October 21 date for the Local Government election, said that her administration plans to introduce the concept of proportional representation that has been advocated as a fairer and stronger system for several years.
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – President Anthony Carmona has bestowed Trinidad and Tobago’s highest national award on Chief Justice Ivor Archie as the country prepares to celebrate its 51st anniversary of political independence from Britain on Saturday. Justice Archie was awarded the “Oder of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago” at a ceremony here in the presence of his parents, his wife, Denise and daughter Dr. Chinyere Archie as well as the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary Orville London.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The police have arrested two men in connection with Wednesday’s murder of a 16 year old on his first day at a new school. Kazim Maxine was killed as he waked out of the Laventille Technology and Continuing Education Centre. The police report that shortly after 2 pm Kazim and a fired were leaving the building when they were approached by two men who opened fire on Maxine, hitting him 12 times. He died on the spot, however, his friend was not injured.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Express - A revenge attack was blocked by the police yesterday, about an hour after a Laventille schoolboy was murdered while walking out of a trade school on the first day of school. The group of about six men had items that looked like weapons stuffed in their front pockets and were attempting to run into the Bee¬tham Gardens when they were chased back into the hills by a team of heavily armed police officers who were on the scene of the murder in Laventille. The police also arrested two men from Beetham Gardens for the murder.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian - Crime remains the Government’s number one priority. So said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Tuesday night, hours ahead of today’s talks on crime between the Government and Opposition teams. Speaking with reporters after commissioning lights at the Morne Diablo Recreation Ground, Penal, Persad-Bissessar said while crime was something the People’s Partnership inherited, it was moving to reduce the rate.