Government: Khan died of heart attack
Energy Minister Franklin Khan. -
MINISTER of Communications and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Symon de Nobriga revealed that the late energy minister Franklin Khan died of a heart attack.
De Nobriga told Newsday, Franklin Khan had a history of heart problems, so I m not sure if there was anything untoward in his passing. We are obviously very saddened by it, but he had a history of heart problems. It has been confirmed that he died of a heart attack.
On Sunday afternoon, Newsday contacted de Nobriga for any word on funeral arrangements for Khan, who died on Saturday morning.
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Minister of National Security Stuart Young. -
NATIONAL Security Minister Stuart Young on Wednesday praised former Police Service Commission (PSC) chairman Bliss Seepersad as an exemplar as the House of Representatives approved a motion to nominate her again to be a member of the PSC.
Similar to a motion passed in the House on April 9 to approve the nomination of McDonald Jacob as a deputy police commissioner, Seepersad s nomination was approved in the absence of Opposition MPs.
Young said, We are here to do the people s business.
He said Seepersad is one of those people in private life, who rose to the call to serve Trinidad and Tobago.
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Ex-senator Obika s family set for race to TT
Former UNC senator Taharqa Obika, his wife and their children. -
THE wife and children of an ex-senator last Friday began a race against time to travel from Africa to Europe to the Americas within 24 hours, along the way dodging the global pandemic and the effects of a spew of tonnes of airborne ash from a Vincentian volcano.
Taharqa Obika on Tuesday told Newsday of his relief and gratitude that the Ministry of National Security had on Monday approved a visa for his Togo-born wife to return to Trinidad, on top of her exemption from TT s ongoing border lockdown against covid19.