PRESIDENT ACTED FAIRLY

Deputy chairman of the Integrity Commission Gladys Gafoor has been accused of fashioning a fictional breach of her constitutional right by President George Maxwell Richards’ decision to suspend her and appoint a tribunal to investigate allegations of misconduct against her.

PRESIDENT General of the National Union of Government and Federated Workers (NUGFW), James Lambert will replace Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) leader David Abdulah in the Senate, the Office of the Prime Minister announced last night.

THE Central Bank yesterday announced the issue of a new $50 note to coincide with the celebration of this country’s 50th anniversary of Independence. The note will become a permanent part of the domestic currency structure. The new notes will be released to the public in early August and the quantum of notes which will be issued will be driven larg(...)

MICHELLE COUDRAY-GREAVES, daughter of San Fernando Mayor Marlene Coudray will be cremated in her adopted homeland of Jamaica sometime later this week and her ashes flown back to Trinidad for a local memorial service.

The Port-of-Spain Experimental Traffic Scheme would be implemented on July 16, with a minimum of 29 traffic wardens to ensure the plan, which includes one-way traffic on some streets, worked smoothly.

AN AILING steelpan innovator Bertie Marshall is hoping that promises made by the Ministry of the Arts and Multiculturalism and the Ministry of the People will come to fruition.

POLICE are yet to charge anyone for the murders of Carapo sisters Gwendolyn Kim Griffith, 35, and Salisha Sue Griffith, 28. Investigators are said to be preparing a case file which will be sent to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

The Continuous Assessment Programme (CAP) component of the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA), to be introduced in primary schools in September, will help schools that are underperforming, according to Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

JUSTICE Vasheist Kokaram has called on suspended Integrity Commission deputy chairman Gladys Gafoor to exercise restraint during the hearing of her two public law claims against the Integrity Commission and the decision of the President.

Some 60 percent of secondary students writing the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations obtain passes in less than five subjects and is a cause for immediate action, Minister of Education Dr Tim Gopeesingh said yesterday.