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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…

Braveboy replaces Warner
April 6th 2012 3:22 PMArts and Multiculturalism Minister Winston ‘Gypsy’ Peters has tapped Marcia Braveboy a former i95 journalist who is well known in Government communications circles as his Media Advisor to replace Rolph Warner who died suddenly last year during a football game. Braveboy, a Grenadian national who is very active in local read more…

Sharma should leave Mirror out of his Lee Sing battle
March 30th 2012 6:24 PMMedia Watch has had to point out before that Port of Spain Mayor Louis Lee Sing is neither a shareholder nor a director of Mirror Group Publication Limited and plays no role in the management or direction of the Mirror. That has not stopped certain government officials, and their more read more…

URP shut down in Rio Claro
March 23rd 2012 12:03 PM…workers still being paid Monthly paid employees of the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) of Rio Claro have been collecting salaries without putting out a proper day’s work since September 2011. An official of the programme said the distasteful activity has been taking place without anyone paying heed to correct the 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…

Protest heats up from Mayaro to Cedros
March 16th 2012 11:59 AMCONSTITUENTS of Winston “Gypsy” Peters’ Mayaro constituency say he has failed them. One protester in Union Village, Mayaro told Mirror, “Peters is a waste of time; he is not representing us properly.” Several protests geared at getting Peters’ attention have been made in the constituency recently. The latest was in read more…

$250M jumping up in steelband
February 26th 2012 11:59 AM…AG expresses concern over $.25 billion Carnival spending THE Government pumped $250 million into this year’s Carnival. This was revealed by Attorney General Anand Ramlogan during an interview with CNMG television during its parade of the bands broadcast on Carnival Tuesday from the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain. He read more…



