Committee Chairman COLM IMBERT looks on as Committee Member TERRENCE DEYALSINGH poses a question to the Members of the Betting Levy Board during the Sixth Meeting of the Public Accounts Committee

Bookies to contest claim by BLB

April 22nd 2012 12:02 PM

PETER GEORGE, head of the Bookmakers Association of T&T, says members intend to contest the claims by Betting Levy Board (BLB) chairman Kama Maharaj that they cook their books to declare less income than they really make, thereby short changing the BLB to the tune of millions of dollars. He  read more…

GOLD CUP WINNER: TTRA Chairman DEREK CHIN and his wife KALENE lead in Boogie Blues into winners’ enclosure after winning the Boxing Day prestigious race

Lab changed test results after call from TTRA

April 20th 2012 12:13 PM

Boogie Blues dope test inquiry INFORMATION has come forward during the Trinidad and Tobago Racing Authority (TTRA) inquiry that the Iowa State University in Florida changed the “positive” result of the Boogie Blues dope test to negative after a female employee of the authority allegedly informed the laboratory that the  read more…

From left: TTRA Chairman DEREK CHIN (addressing the media conference), ARC Secretary ROBIN JAISINGH, Trade and Industry Minister STEPHEN CADIZ, ARC President Justice WENDELL KANGALOO and BLB Chairman KAMA MAHARAJ

Stakeholders want new TTRA board

April 20th 2012 12:13 PM

STAKEHOLDERS in the racing industry are calling for the removal of members of the Trinidad and Tobago Racing Authority (TTRA) board. They had made this clear when they recently met with the line Minister Stephen Cadiz at his Port of Spain office. They say the board was unaware of the  read more…

Members of the Betting Levy Board. From left: CEO RICHARD JACKSON, Chairman KAMA MAHARAJ and accountant NORRIS GALBARAN

Bookmakers plan response to BLB’s tax dodging claims

April 20th 2012 11:57 AM

PARLIAMENT Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman, PNM Diego Martin North East MP, Colm Imbert, says he is alarmed at charges levelled against the T&T bookmakers, who take bets from gamblers on local and foreign horse racing, that they are fleecing the Treasury by failing to declare at least $500 million  read more…

Tonya Nero.. quite prepared

Nero seeks Olympic qualifier in Rotterdam marathon

April 15th 2012 12:14 PM

By Mc MOHAN AUSTIN TO the participants in the three-mile Easter weekend run at Maracas it was serious competition but to Tonya Nero it was just training. TnT Mirror spoke to Nero after the race — actually after she ran for another hour around the recreation ground — after crossing  read more…

Trinidad and Tobago 1-2-3 as national cycling champion NJISANE PHILLIP is flanked by the Alexander brothers ADAM (left) and JOSHUA on the prize rostrum at the Arima Velodrome

Phillip seeded for London Olympics 2012

April 13th 2012 5:43 PM

NJISANE PHILLIP will be Trinidad and Tobago’s lone cycling competitor at the London Olympics this summer. Phillip has earned his points from participating in the various World Cycling Championships throughout the world. Thanks to the foresight of his father and stepfather, financing his every turn from training on the wooden  read more…

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