SPORTS Minister Anil Roberts yesterday literally didn’t know if to laugh or cry as he exposed $65 million in a clutch of dubious deals at the Sport Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SPORTT) in a hard-hitting speech in the Lower House.
WORKS and Transport Minister Jack Warner yesterday alleged the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT), during the tenure of the former PNM government, paid rent for the Reverend Juliana Pena — spiritual adviser of then Prime Minister Patrick Manning — for one year on a property owned by eminent attorney Bruce Procope.
WITH high-profile extradition proceedings against two Trinidadians who are wanted in the United States, still pending, US Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere Arturo Valenzuela yesterday re-affirmed that America will not back down from enforcing extradition treaties with this country and others in the region, including Jamaica.
PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday told the House of Representatives that the Commission of Inquiry into the July 27, 1990 attempted coup would be comprised of retired Justice of Appeal Mustapha Ibrahim (chairman); former Independent Senator Diana Mahabir- Wyatt; former Independent Senator Dr Eastlyn Mc Kenzie; Bajan jurist Sir Richard Cheltenham QC; and international security expert Dr HA Mohammed.
The single-sex schools was a policy first implemented by the previous administration earlier this year.
Attorney-at-Law Garvin Nicholas who is also the Press Secretary for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has been tipped to be sworn in next week as the new Chairman of the Diego Martin Regional Corporation.