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    • Chin on massive PR campaign

      Trinidad and Tobago Racing Authority (TTRA) chairman Derek Chin has embarked on a massive public relations campaign in the media to try and clear up the controversy surrounding the “positive” dope test result of his horse Boogie Blues, which won the prestigious Boxing Day Gold last year. Chin has been  read more…

    • No audited statement of account

      Five months after $8 million Caribbean Racing Festival FIVE months after Caribbean Racing Promotions Ltd (CRPL) staged a more than $8 million racing festival at Santa Rosa Park, Arima, the company is yet to submit an audited statement of account. The CRPL had given the undertaking to the Arima Race  read more…

    • Bullseye

      From Our Files: September 22nd, 1982 Rabble rouser leadership LYLE TOWNSEND is often described as a militant trade unionist. That is to say, he’s all aggression. The table-thumping, tongue-lashing type who frequently puts management on the run. But how true is this description? Or better still – to what extent  read more…

    • Playing the devil

      THE devil you know is better than the devil you do not know! This was the “warning sentiments” of the PNM during the campaign leading up to the general election of May 24, 2010. Personally, I was appalled by the reckless and ridiculous use of this axiom by a party  read more…

    • Eating ah food

      CORRUPTION takes various forms. Sometimes it is as deliberate as paying someone to give a view that is favourable to one’s position; sometimes it involves simply stealing another man’s purse through devious means; sometimes it entails padding the payroll so that someone gets more money than he or she worked  read more…

OUR COVER STORY

Moonan’s new ride

May 18th 2012 12:00 PM

CAL seeks luxury SUV for new chairman CASH strapped Caribbean Airlines held its first board meeting last week under new chairman Rabindra Moonan and although no solution has been arrived yet for the airline’s financial woes, TnT Mirror has learnt that plans are already afoot to procure a luxury vehicle  read more…

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New shortage of Permanent Secretaries in public service

May 18th 2012 11:59 AM

A SHORTAGE of Permanent Secretaries (PSs) in the Public Service is the rationale given for the recent assignment of Head of the Public Service Reynold Cooper to act as PS in the Ministry of Housing and the Environment. Cooper told TnT Mirror that he took up the position on May  read more…

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More fraud at BIR

May 18th 2012 11:58 AM

…contractors buying tax clearance certificates THE Board of Inland (BIR) Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU) is investigating a major racket involving the sale of bogus corporation tax and value added tax (VAT) clearance certificates to contractors with limited liability companies who are tendering for government projects. A source at the BIR  read more…

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President to turn sod for Toco Old Boys Hq.

May 18th 2012 11:57 AM

PRESIDENT George Maxwell Richards and his wife, Dr. Jean Ramjohn Richards, are expected to be in Toco on Saturday, June 2 to turn the sod for the spanking new $2 million headquarters the Toco Old Boys and Girls Association is planning to erect.  The headquarters is to be built at  read more…

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Local gays more hopeful

May 18th 2012 11:56 AM

After 12 years being denied equal opportunity Mia Quetzal, a transgender woman and activist from Belize who visited Trinidad last year for a conference, told colleagues immigration employees had her “parade up and down” while they stared and laughed, after one of them looked at her passport and discovered she  read more…

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