TAX ON HOLD
CITIZENS can breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now.
CITIZENS can breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now.
A CONCESSION by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC) that it was not properly constituted as constitutionally-mandated composition of members fell short by one. The admission by the JLSC was contained in the commissions response to a pre-action protocol letter sent by former attorney general Anand Ramlogan who questioned the constitutionality of the JLSCs composition with only four members.
A SEVEN member team has been appointed by the Law Association to examine the way judicial appointments are made by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC) and make recommendations on possible changes to the Constitution on the procedure and selection criteria by which it is carried out.
OPPOSITION leader Kamla Persad- Bissessar yesterday called on government to not only open the Couva Childrens Hospital but to make its services free to both adults and children.
THE Prisons Service is awaiting approval of $55 million from Cabinet for the elimination of the use of pails in the Remand Yard Prison, replacing this with toilets for prisoners. Also plans are afoot to build a remand prison to ease overcrowding in the prisons system says Commissioner of Prisons Cecil Duke.
AN AUTOPSY by Pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov on the body of 44-year-old Sewhroni Mohan revealed she was not murdered but committed suicide.