OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is calling on police to investigate the circumstances surrounding Governments procurement of and subsequent cancellation of the contract for the lease of the Ocean Flower II, a passenger vessel that was to ply the seabridge.
FORMER National Security Gary Griffith yesterday said immigrants should be given a sixmonths window to secure jobs as this is a better way for the current minister to handle the situation.
AN ILLEGAL wire transfer of US$3,562,566.62 to a Dubai bank was recovered by the National Energy Corporation (NEC) on August 3. The money formed part of a larger illegal wire transfer from the NECs US account at First Citizens Bank in September 2011.
Social-media discussions were set ablaze Tuesday night following news that a Social Studies textbook, published by a local author, did not include any details on Emancipation Day or Indian Arrival Day but had information on Halloween and World Water Day.
THE PARENTS of a five-yearold girl are pleading to the public for assistance to raise funds to send her to India for potentially life-saving surgery. Haleema Mohammed, the last of three children for Hamil and Kristal Mohammed of Mohess Road, Debe, was diagnosed with beta thalassaemia, a blood disorder that reduces the production of haemoglobin .
THE Special Reserve Police constable at the centre of a controversy following the online leak of explicit photos last Sunday, has been suspended with full pay, pending the outcome of an investigation.