Daily Brief - 15th January 2019

NEWS

Letter confirms NGC ordered TTCB to reallocate funds

Al­most two years af­ter it was dis­cov­ered that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cricket Board mis­al­lo­cat­ed almost $3 million in funding from the NGC, and six months after the NGC re­quest­ed the TTCB to re­pay that mon­ey forth­with, the two bod­ies are still work­ing on a way for­ward. Read more…

3 charged with robbery at Sando mall in court

One man was grant­ed $300,000 bail while his two al­leged ac­com­plices were de­nied bail on charges aris­ing out of the South Park Mall rob­bery last week. Read more…

 

POLITICS

Water job for PNM activist Dookoo

The Ministry of Public Utilities’ decision to hire People’s National Movement (PNM) supporter and provocative Facebook personality Darrel Dookoo to promote its conservation campaign led to allegations yesterday that it was supporting “racial hate, discrimination, hate speech, bigotry. Read more…

BUSINESS

TSTT Charging too much

GOVERNMENT plans to cancel its arrangement with TSTT for CCTV coverage because it is charging too much. Read more…

REGIONAL

Minister: No Outside Influence In Vote Against Maduro's Presidency

Jamaica came under no undue pressure from the United States (US) or any other member state of the Organization of American States (OAS) to vote in favour of a resolution not to recognise the legitimacy of Nicolas Maduro's new term as Venezuela's president, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith has stressed. Read more…

Men in police wear massacred civilians in Haiti

When a police truck carrying men in uniform pulled into an impoverished neighborhood in the Haitian capital, residents thought it was an official operation. Read more…

 

INTERNATIONAL

Venezuelan lawmaker emerges as Maduro's rival

When Venezuelans rang in the new year, few in the crisis-wracked nation had even heard of Juan Guaido. Read more…

Brexit: Theresa May faces 'meaningful vote' on her deal

The so-called "meaningful vote" will take place later as five days of debate on Brexit come to an end. Read more…

 

15th January 2019

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