PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In 2011, when Caribbean Airlines (CAL) and Air Jamaica joined forces, the plan was that this “truly Caribbean airline” would efficiently serve the region and beyond as “one airline but two brands,” replacing two loss-making airlines which had been propped up and protected by their governments for several decades.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prospective members of the Integrity Commission may not want to serve under the leadership of chairman Ken Gordon, attorney Israel Khan, SC, said yesterday. Khan was commenting on the implications of a meeting between Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and Gordon, which took place at Gordon’s Glencoe home days before Rowley presented his no-confidence motion in Parliament last month. Khan said: “I am duly informed that two prospective members of the commission have indicated that they do not want to serve under him.”
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley says Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and members of her coalition People’s Partnership government were engaged in “self defence” as the controversy over the “emailgate” scandal continues here unabated.
Rowley, addressing a public meeting of the ain opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) in the capital on Tuesday night, said the country has gone into a “tailspin” and that the government is in disarray.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Lead investigator in the “emailgate” case, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Mervyn Richardson yesterday called for an end to what he described as the “sideshows” by various paid computer experts, making pronouncements on the same e-mails he is investigating.
While Richardson said the parallel, privately funded findings were not interfering with his own investigation, he said it was “convoluting” the system outside the courts and may be prejudicing the issue in the court of public opinion.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Labour leaders Wednesday criticised the coalition People’s Partnership government of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar describing it as a “spiteful and ruthless” administration that has trampled the rights of workers.
They gave Persad Bissessar, who in 2010 participated in Labour Day march here, a failing grade, adding that after three years of being in office “we have seen no progress.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Although it is a case of closing the barn door after the horse has bolted, the Insurance Bill 2013 is a welcome piece of legislation which we hope will eliminate the possibility of any future recurrence along the lines of the CL Financial disaster.
The unanimous parliamentary support for the bill reflects the widespread view that this legislation is long overdue for a public that has repeatedly fallen prey to unscrupulous and poorly managed insurance companies.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THE parliamentary opposition Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) has alerted the secretariats of both the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Organisation of American States (OAS) to what it views as a serious threat to constitutional, democratic governance in that twin-island Eastern Caribbean country.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In the opinion of Jon Berryhill, the IT expert contracted by lawyer Israel Khan to review the package of e-mail documents read in Parliament by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley, “There is nothing that is believable in any of it.” His verdict on the documents read into Hansard by Dr Rowley in May mirrored the evaluations offered by local IT professionals.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The People’s National Movement (PNM) yesterday defended leader Dr Keith Rowley for meeting with Integrity Commission chairman Kenneth Gordon just days before he piloted a motion of no confidence against the Prime Minister and the government last month.
In a statement yesterday, the party argued that Rowley’s meeting at Gordon’s home was no different from the Prime Minister holding official meetings at her private residence.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In the face of a raging controversy over his meeting with Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley at his personal residence, Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon is certain he did the right thing.
In an interview with the Express yesterday, Gordon was asked whether he had made any decision of any kind as a result of the criticisms which have been levelled at his decision to meet Rowley, and his response was: “I am observing the incredulous developments.”