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Get 800 illegal guns for 2015
Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams is challenging his subordinates to take 800 illegal firearms off the streets in 2015, as they seek to drive the murder rate down. Speaking to Southern...
View ArticleOil tumbles below US$45 budget peg
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) yesterday plunged below the US$45 on which the national budget is currently pegged. It dropped by US$1.78, or almost four per cent, at US$44.45 a barrel, after going as...
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PCA head David West reports AG Ramlogan to CoP Williams
Following is the full text of the January 29 press statement by Police Complaints Authority Director David West on allegations published in the media against Attorney-General Anand Ramlogan. On...
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AG faces police probe into allegations of perversion of justice
Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams ordered an investigation into allegations made against the Attorney General by the head of the Police Complaints Authority.A January 29 release from the...
View ArticleNo show by Jack in ex-assistant’s lawsuit
Justice Frank Seepersad yesterday set March 19 as the trial date for the $1.2 million lawsuit filed against former national security minister Jack Warner by his former personal assistant.Fixing the...
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Stay out of our business
Stay out of San Fernando East business and concentrate on winning Tobago West.That was the retort from PNM San Fernando East PRO Anthony Clarke to PNM Tobago West chairman Stanford Callender on...
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Montano looks to give young artistes a ‘haven’
Machel Montano will be launching a record label and safe haven for young artistes shortly after Carnival 2015.This was announced by his manager Che Kothari during a panel discussion on the life and...
View ArticleFour in wild card vote
Mobile operator Digicel has announced a major change in the Groovy Soca Monarch competition which will allow one more artiste to head to the finals on Fantastic Friday.The new element of the...
View ArticleCops threaten to boycott Panorama
There will no police presence for Sunday’s Panorama semifinals and at all other major Carnival events.So said president of the Police Service Social and Welfare Association Insp Anand Ramesar.He added...
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Williams names DCP for probe
The Attorney General is now under police probe.Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams yesterday appointed acting Deputy Commissioner of Police (operations) Harold Phillip to investigate Police...
View ArticleRamlogan: It’s political conspiracy
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan yesterday labelled a criminal complaint against him of witness-tampering allegations as “part of a wider political conspiracy designed to damage the government as we...
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Extra security for PCA Director, as criminal probe into AG begins
National Security Minister Gary Griffith has been identified as a critical witness in the criminal investigation of misbehaviour in public office against Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, according to...
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ACP Reyes pleads not guilty to three criminal charges
Assistance Commissioner of Police Peter Reyes pleaded not guilty to three criminal charges of putting an aircraft and crew in danger.Reyes appeared before Arima Magistrate Debbie Ann Bassaw on January...
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No resignation from House Speaker Wade Mark
Despite protests outside Parliament and several calls for his resignation, House Speaker Wade Mark did not step down when he rose to speak in the Lower House on January 30.Following is the full text of...
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Griffith duped into approaching West but Security head ready to testify
National Security Minister Gary Griffith confided in a Cabinet colleague on Thursday he was approached by Attorney General Anand Ramlogan to use his friendship with Police Complaints Authority head...
View ArticleMinister: I’m trained not to be scared
“I’m trained not to be scared.” That was the boast from National Security Minister Gary Griffith yesterday as he fielded questions from reporters on the police probe into the matter concerning Attorney...
View ArticlePM okay with Mark’s apology
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the Government accepts the statement issued by House Speaker Wade Mark yesterday on the sub judice matter during last week Friday’s debate on a motion of no...
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Mark apologises but says: It was Warner who chose not to speak
House Speaker Wade Mark has said the error he made in last Friday’s motion by Jack Warner was made through inadvertence only but stressed Warner was the one who chose not to proceed with debate on his...
View ArticleActing CoP gets sixth extension
Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams received his sixth extension to his post yesterday. He got the notification from the Police Service Commission informing him his term would end in the next...
View ArticleSoldiers set to step in
In the event that police officers withhold their services from this weekend’s Panorama competition, the Defence Force is ready to step in. This was the response of civil military affairs officer of the...
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