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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…

Dookeran: Prepare for major cost-cutting
May 13th 2012 12:01 PMMAJOR surgery is needed if the flagging fortunes of Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) are to be turned around. This suggestion was made by Finance Minister Winston Dookeran when asked as to how the State-owned airline will come out of the its financial problems in the light of his announcement last read more…

$25 million fraud at Inland Revenue
April 29th 2012 12:03 PMMore charges to be laid INVESTIGATORS have unearthed more than 50 “ghost” companies, which have reportedly defrauded the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) of more than $25 million in value added tax (VAT) refunds over the past few years. Reports are that some 60 charges are expected to be laid against read more…

The Fat Ass Brigade
April 6th 2012 4:05 PMNow that Jack Warner has won PP’s chairmanship, there is a rumour that Winston Dookeran may be leaving the legislature to join the IDB in Barbados, and Marlene Coudray is preparing to fight San Fernando East, it is time to ask whether the PNM is organised to face the challenges read more…

Jenny sounds the bell for THA 2013 elections
March 30th 2012 12:01 PMFORMER Congress of the People (COP) political leader Winston Dookeran is hoping to succeed Max Richards as President of the Republic of T&T. That was the suggestion made by PNM labour relations officer Jennifer Baptiste-Primus as she addressed members of the Tobago Council of the PNM earlier this month. Her read more…

What’s in a name?
March 18th 2012 11:59 AM…Dookeran, Campbell, Khan are all related Clifford Campbell, the PNM candidate for Mayaro in the May 24, 2010 general election bowed to defeat at the hands of People’s Partnership candidate Winston “Gypsy” Peters. According to Gypsy, Campbell is suffering from “political tabanca” for the “three to one” beating he put read more…

NAR power-brokers favour Dookeran
February 19th 2012 12:16 PMFrom Our Files: April 3rd 1990 …to lead party in ‘91 WINSTON DOOKERAN, Minister of Planning and Mobilisation, has been earmarked to become the country’s next Prime Minister as power brokers in the ONR faction of the ruling National Alliance for Reconstruction prepare to ask ANR Robinson to step down read more…



