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Former Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith has expressed disappointment over what he called the "four per cent sell out" on the part of the Police Service Social and Welfare Association for accepting the Chief Personnel Officer's (CPO) four per cent offer.

AS TOLD TO BC PIRES My name is Ira Mathur and my memoir Love the Dark Days was published last year. I was born in an army hospital in Guwahati, the heart of India’s tea country. My earliest memory is being in my ayah’s arms, following my grandmother and several soldiers on a hunt for

Two Opposition MPs had to retract statements accusing National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds of lying in Parliament on Friday. The statements were part of a heated exchange following a declaration by Hinds that Government had not engaged in discussions with gang leaders. Naparima MP Rodney Charles asked whether the Government has held meetings with reputed

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WINSTON Dookeran expressed regret that his former colleague Jennifer Johnson died without realising her dream for a national commemoration of the 1990 coup attempt and for compensation to be paid to the families of those killed when insurrectionists invaded the Red House, TTT and bombed the old police headquarters on St Vincent Street.

JENNIFER Johnson, former Minister of Youth, Sport, Culture and the Creative Arts, and one of the government ministers who was held hostage in the July 27, 1990 coup attempt, has died. Johnson, who would have celebrated her 77th birthday on February 17, died at her home after a short period of illness on Wednesday, a

THE EDITOR: I am bewildered by the fact that pan has not been officially proclaimed via parliamentary procedure as being TT’s national musical instrument, thereby elevating its national and international status to that of all our national symbols and emblems, eg the flag, the coat of arms, the flower, the birds, etc. My concern relates

The matter of intra-regional air transportation has been talked about for decades by regional governments and yet there are no tangible plans to positively address this matter that seriously impacts social and economic development, particularly in the eastern Caribbean. There have been numerous studies done on air connectivity in the Caribbean region containing recommendations that have fallen on deaf ears.

FORMER People's Partnership energy minister Kevin Ramnarine has congratulated the Prime Minister in staying the course on the Dragon gas deal between TT and Venezuela and estimates that the first gas will be pumped within three to four years.

THE EDITOR: The PNM has always been an anti-democratic force in TT. From the beginning, it has stood for the centralisation of power, in the office and person of the prime minister, who it would like to have the absolute power of the old governor, if not the old king of England himself. The PNM's