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Professor gets $1M to write a report THE five-member Committee appointed by Cabinet to “enquire into the root causes of the problems identified and shown by crime statistics, particularly as it affects Trinidadian males, and to suggest solutions to problems they identify” has hit a snag over money. The delivery read more…

Missed Tourists
May 13th 2012 12:10 PMTHE announcement by Tourism Minister Dr. Rupert Griffith of a $37 million enhancement to this country’s tourism plant marks a crude juxtaposition to the photographs now circulating on the Internet of this country’s presentation at the Cruise Shipping Miami 2012 conference held in Florida last March. The conference is the read more…

No resort plans for land
May 13th 2012 12:04 PMTURTLE Village Trust (TVT) chief executive officer Dr. Allan Bachan told TnT Mirror he is not aware of any plans by the TVT’s main financial backers, energy giants BHP Billiton and Atlantic LNG, to invest in an exclusive tourism resort in or near the village of Mission. The TVT, he read more…

Booth of shame
May 13th 2012 12:02 PMNationals knock TnT’s tourism display at Miami convention Even as he announced a $40 million plan to boost domestic tourism, Tourism Minister Dr Rupert Griffith is being hammered for a poor display put on by this country at a tourism trade show in Miami, USA. Trinidadians, both in Miami and read more…

No URP work for Grande residents
April 6th 2012 2:28 PMUNEMPLOYMENT Relief Programme (URP) bosses at the Guaico Tamana Road, Sangre Grande office are abusing their authority. They are even defying attempts by MPs Dr Rupert Griffith (Toco-Sangre Grande) and Collin Partap (Cumuto-Manzanilla) to persuade them to give jobs on the programme’s projects to the people of Sangre Grande and read more…

No voting station for 700 UNC Matura, Matelot faithful
March 25th 2012 12:11 PMON the north-east coast in the villages between Matura and Matelot there are some 700 eligible voters in the Toco-Sangre Grande constituency for the UNC’s national executive election coming off today (Saturday). However, there is no voting station provided for them and they will all have to find their way read more…

Protestors say Griffith must go
March 9th 2012 11:58 AMUNC activists from Toco/Sangre Grande/Valencia areas staged a noisy protest outside MP Dr. Rupert Griffith Office on Tuesday to protest the high level of unemployment, and lack of Food Cards, to the poor and needy. The villagers made several allegations against Griffith over the award of CEPEP contracts, to persons read more…



