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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Trade and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon has rubbished claims of any impropriety in the sale of the Preysal Industrial Park to local conglomerate Ansa McAL Ltd, saying all proper procedures were followed. Opposition Senator Wade Mark raised the issue at a Senate sitting dealing with the Special Economic Zones Bill 2021. Mark said the sale of the park was not brought before the Senate and asked whether it was bought competitively, […]
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
Senate President Donna Frett-Gregory announced Friday that the body of former Senator Edgar M. Iles will lie in repose on Oct. 4 .
Trans Nzoia man said to have been beaten to death by police
THE Judiciary has sought to assuage the uncertainty surrounding the payment of fixed penalties for breach of public health regulations.
On Tuesday, Police Commissioner Gary Griffith told the NOW Morning Show that 10,000 tickets have been issued for not wearing face masks. This equates to $10 million in fines.
But fingers were pointed at the Judiciary for failing to make it possible to pay these fines.
Last week, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi said he would ask Cabinet to approve President Paula-Mae Weekes' to proclamation of the Electronic Payments into and out of Court Act 2018, clearing the legal stoppage.
In the past eight months, there have been successive deferrals for fine payments, with the latest due to end on May 31.
In a statement late on Tuesday, the Judiciary said there are several options to pay electronically.
It said the Judiciary collects both trust monies and revenue and has been prepared for online payments by credit card online, debit card online, credit card and Linx point of sale, as well as by voucher followed by online entry of voucher ID, as has been used with CourtPay for receipt and disbursement of maintenance for several years.
It said for the collection of revenue, as opposed to trust monies such as maintenance, however, the Judiciary required additional approvals from the Treasury, which in turn required the approval of a cyber-security incidence response team.
The team is a body mandated to investigate and review; approve or refuse online payment systems.
Approval is also needed for a treasury solicitor who has to approve agreements with the commercial banks.
The Judiciary said the approvals took some time, as it was the first agency to seek to deal with revenue in the way it has proposed.
It also said a small lacuna in the law, which appeared to prohibit the deduction of credit card and bank fees at the source and, instead, include them in the revenue of the State, was addressed, “so that the legitimacy of this activity was put beyond doubt.”
It added that the passage of the recently passed law has allowed the finalisation of the agreements for online credit card and debit card payments to be used for receiving revenue and deducting fees at source, with only revenue being remitted to the treasury. The Judiciary said these agreements are being finalised and the relevant custodial revenue accounts are being opened.
It also said it was seeking approval for point-of-sale Linx and credit-card receipts and for the voucher system known as CourtPay to be used for revenue.
It said its call last week for expressions of interest (EOI) was a call for additional vendors to offer to sell Judiciary electronic vouchers or to offer electronic wallets to accept funds on its behalf and to remit funds to its custodial revenue accounts using various technologies seen on the local market in the last couple of years.
“The purpose of the EOI is to explore additional solutions in an effort to bring convenience to the public.
‘In this regard, the Judiciary is thinking ahead wi
On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed into law a series of police reform bills that aim to
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The Biden administration on Friday urged a federal judge to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September and sent women racing to get care beyond the borders of the second-most populous state.
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Trade and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon. Photo by Sureash Cholai - OVER 630 people have registered to attend the TT Investment Forum which takes place virtually on Tuesday and Wednesday. The two-day forum is dedicated to promoting foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade and is a collaborative effort between the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA) and InvesTT. The event, according to a release issued on Sunday by the Ministry of […]
[New Era] Esther Nantana (24) is one of the four Namibians selected as African Union (AU) Youth Volunteers - Researchers for 12 months.
Tobago Hotel and Tourism Association vice president Carol-Ann Birchwood-James believes the measures and penalties outlined by Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi for the operation of safe zones is all part of the 'new normal' as the Government slowly reopens the economy in the midst of the covid19 pandemic. At a news conference on Saturday at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann's, Al-Rawi outlined the procedures to be undertaken by employers and patrons from October 11 to contain the spread of covid19 at […]
The Candle Light Movement (CLM) on Tuesday roundly rejected the Prime Minister's claim that anti-crime vigils in February – in the wake of the murder of court clerk Andrea Bharatt – were responsible for the spike in covid19 cases. The movement in a strongly-worded press release called on Government to blame itself.
They said Dr Rowley's remarks on Monday in Parliament were \"reprehensible, vile and callous.\"
The statement by CLM's public relations officer and attorney Candace Bharath, said the group had no political affiliation and was not funded by the Opposition UNC.
She lamented the PM had blamed a group using peaceful vigils to highlight citizens' outrage over crime including the rape, brutalisation and murder of innocent women, including Ashanti Riley,18, and 23-year-old Bharatt, 23.
All of these vigils would have gotten approval of the Police Commissioner.
Bharath alleged the Government has ignored the crime-linked issues of PH taxis and pepper spray, noting a 32-year-old woman was recently escaped abduction in a PH car.
\"Further, it is appalling, but no surprise that the prime minister has sought to use the name of an innocent victim of murder (Bharatt) so callously, without care or any consideration for the damage of such statements to the family and loved ones of this victim who he used as his scapegoat for his government’s mishandling of the pandemic.\"
She said the CLM's last public vigil was in Chaguanas on March 12, following which the Ministry of Health on March 26 stated TT had (only) 217 active cases.
Bharath noted that on March 12, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi attended a vigil in San Fernando held for murdered domestic violence victim Adeina Alleyne.
[caption id=\"attachment_886107\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"476\"] MURDERED: Courthouse clerk Andrea Bharatt. -[/caption]
She hit Government's refusal to secure TT borders from illegal Venezuelan immigrants, resulting in the deadly Brazilian variant entering the country. She quoted Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh, \"The first case of the P1 variant was found in a Venezuelan migrant.”
She hit Rowley's Easter invitation to the nation.
\"Despite the concerns of the Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram who was allegedly concerned about increasing cases of covid19 positive cases in March, in blatant disregard for critical social distancing practices, the PM irresponsibly called upon citizens to flock to Tobago for the Easter weekend.
She said large crowds partied on beaches in Tobago, with no social distancing or masks. She noted Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan's announcement that over 50,000 people would have travelled during that week of the Easter, back and forth between the islands.
Unlike Rowley, Bharath said, no member of the CLM’s committee has tested positive for covid19, nor any of its volunteers.
Bharath said that on April 1, the ministry recorded 309 active cases, but on April 16 – two weeks after Easter – there were 712 active cases. The incubation period for covid19 is roughly two weeks.
She quo
With the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) failing since 1992 to file audited financial statements annually as mandated by law, there are calls for the relevant authorities to launch investigations into the state agency to see whether billions of...
GOVERNMENT will go to the House of Representatives on May 24 to seek an extension of the state of emergency that was imposed from midnight on May 15, for another three months. The House sits from 1.30 pm on May 24 and the Government's proposal to extend the SoE is contained in the second of two motions filed on the order paper in the Prime Minister's name.
The first motion calls on the House to note the statement made by President Paula-Mae Weekes on May 15, in accordance with Section 9(1) of the Constitution, declaring the existence of a period of public emergency and issuing a proclamation to that effect on the same day.
This motion said within three days of this proclamation, the President will deliver a statement to Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George and the House should debate this statement no later than May 30, 15 days from the date of proclamation of the SoE.
In a letter dated May 17 to Annisette-George, Weekes outlined her reasons for the proclamation. \"In recent weeks there has been a surge in the number of persons infected with covid19, an intensifying of symptoms, a lengthening of the period of infection, and a troubling increase in the number of deaths attributed to the virus.\"
She also said while many citizens are adhering to the public health regulations \"others across the board have failed to follow the guidelines and protocols intended to minimise the spread of covid19. Weekes added, \"It is either they have not received the messaging or are unable or unwilling to abide by it.\"
Weekes was confident that the country's best hope of \"stemming the tide\" of rising covid19 cases is to vaccinate sufficient number of members of the population. Against this background, she concluded, \"I am satisfied that the outbreak of the infection disease covid19 with its deleterious effects on the health of our citizenry provides grounds on which I could and should declare the existence of a state of public emergency.\"
The second motion notes the SoE has been enacted in accordance with Section 8 and 9 (2) of the Constitution. Unless previously revoked, the motion continues, the SoE will remain in force for 15 days. This means that under the current circumstances, the SoE remains in effect until May 30.
The motion says in accordance with Section 10 (1) of the Constitution, the proclamation of the SoE can be extended before it expires, by a resolution supported by a simple majority vote of the House, for a period of three months. This means the Government, by virtue of its 22 seats in the House to the Opposition's 19, can extend the SoE until August 15.
The motion adds that under Section 10 (1) no extension of the SoE exceeds three months and in all the extensions may not exceed six months.
Section 10 (2) of the Constitution states the SoE can be further extended from time to time, but not more than three months at any one time. These additional extensions need three-fifth majority votes in the House and Senate for approval.
The process to end the SoE is much simpler. Section 10 (3) of the Constitution
The UK government has announced funding for conservation projects to protect species in Malawi, Kenya, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Angola, Asia and South America. Endangered species including tigers, orangutans, pangolins, rhinos and rosewood trees will be better protected under a range of projects funded by government this year aimed at tackling the damaging illegal wildlife trade. Seventeen conservation […]
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It's Winds-DAY, but heavy winds are exactly what we won't be getting as Hurricane Same continues on her Northbound Track! But, there are still a few other systems out there and some other pertinent to travel and tourism information that you might want to check in on in this little St. John update. Last week, ... Read moreIsland Update: Weather, Ports, Restaurant Closures and National Park Updates
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi says there is a “serious vaccine train headed to TT.
“We will come out of this pandemic,” he declared.
He said the government is co-ordinating and planning for the country post-covid19, and artistes should be looking forward to the future.
“Next Carnival is going to be the mother of all Carnivals. Good days are ahead of us, and I’m very hopeful about it.”
Al-Rawi said talk of not having the money to afford vaccines was untrue, and the government has been in talks with Covax, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, AstraZeneca and more to ensure vaccines were acquired.
“We are in every zone across every field possible.
“We will be coming out of this. We just have to hold on a bit longer.”
Al-Rawi was speaking during a second instalment of Faris in the Space on Twitter on Wednesday. It featured speakers from the music industry including soca artiste Sekon Sta and producer Travis World.
Soca artistes will be given priority to travel abroad for international carnival events, the AG said.
He praised Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts Randall Mitchell for pushing for artistes to be prioritised for vaccines in Cabinet on Wednesday in preparation for their being able to travel.
“Your minister has been big on the scene,” he said. “We have a very enterprising (and) ambitious Minister of Tourism…We are trying to make sure the vaccine train hits TT fast so we have the transporting of people back and forth.”
He said Mitchell was given the green light to prioritise artistes for travel in Cabinet on Wednesday. Major international carnival events have already begun, he said.
“Artistes of this country bring brand recognition for the country,” said Al-Rawi. “All the dials are being pushed to the max as we plan the exit from covid19.”
He warned that while there may be good news, the public still needs to be vigilant.
“We still have to hold on. We have to make sure to use the state of emergency to crush the pandemic back to where we were. Even though we got great news, let’s just make sure we hold on a little bit longer.”
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THERE was a mad rush for the Pfizer vaccine, considered the gold standard of covid19 vaccines globally, at several of the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) vaccination road trip sites on Saturday.
The response to the Prime Minister’s announcement that 50,000 doses would be available for the general public was so overwhelming, several of the smaller sites like the Pleasantville MIC Centre and Esperance Regional Complex, ran out of vaccines shortly after lunch, leaving a larger crowd to gather at Gulf City Mall, where the rollout began around 1 pm.
Rajiv Diptee, president of the Supermarket Association (SATT), which administered approximately 1,600 Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines at Mid Centre Mall, Chaguanas, said some people still left without getting the jab.
He said this was SATT’s last vaccination rollout programme, which had experienced challenges with the time constraints and human resources.
“But we navigated the obstacles,” Diptee said.
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi, the MP for San Fernando West ,where Gulf City is located, had to request a further 30 volunteers to register the crowd in the auditorium and vaccinate people in a separate area.
The elderly and infirm in the lines were pulled out to receive special treatment.
The AG said he also spoke to Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh about the shortfall and asked him to make every effort to have the Pfizer available in his constituency.
There are two more days to administer the Pfizer vaccines at Gulf City – on September 10 and 11 from 1-6 pm each day – and Al-Rawi promised an improvement to the arrangement.
A volunteer from Esperanza Village said, “We did not expect it would have been oversubscribed.”
[caption id=\"attachment_911228\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"] Teenagers and adults line up for Pfizer vaccines at the Esperance Regional Complex, San Fernando, on Saturday. - Photo by Lincoln Holder[/caption]
He said the tents were filled and overflowing when he got to the site at 7.30 am, as people braved the bad weather to get to the sites early to be part of the 25,000 people benefiting from the 50,000 doses Rowley offered.
Police had to be called out to quell several near-disturbances as people from as far as St Joseph, Cedros, Barrackpore and Princes Town crowded the space to get their first jab.
There was no order according to time of arrival at this site, and some who came earlier than others found themselves way in the back of the line ,which at one time was close to 1,000 people, a volunteer who wished not to be identified told Sunday Newsday.
The peace was again disturbed as a local government representative brought about six people he hoped could jump the line to get preferential treatment. Police threatened to shut down the vaccination drive if the crowd could not be controlled and maintain their social distance.
While J&J and Pfizer were administered there was a greater demand for Pfizer.
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The notoriously conservative Koch family is taking an unanticipated stance on the debate over critical race theory (CRT). The Associated Press reports the family doesn't believe in the banning of philosophies. “Using government to ban ideas, even those we disagree with, is also counter to core American principles — the principles that help drive social progress,” said Evan Feinberg, executive director of the Stand Together Foundation, an organization which has ties to the Koch family. The Vice President of The Charles Koch Foundation's philanthropy arm gave a similar argument in May. “Both learning and research require openness to new ideas and the ability to argue productively,” Charlie Ruger wrote. “That requires standing against censorship.” CRT has been debated for nearly 40 years. But it's only been within the past few months that a number of Republican legislators, superintendents, and conservative schools boards have taken extreme measures to push back against the idea...
THE Prime Minister has so far failed to adequately address the Police Service Commission (PSC) implosion after its mishandling of the appointment of an acting police commissioner.
Speaking on Sunday at a press conference at the Office of the Opposition Leader in Port of Spain, Opposition Senator Wade Mark said it was not enough for Dr Rowley to say the TTPS was fully functioning despite the PSC debacle.
At a press conference on Saturday, the PM said the imbroglio involving the PSC which ended with every member of that commission resigning within the last two weeks, was nothing for the country \"to get capsized over.\" Mark and the UNC was unimpressed by Rowley's response
In saying this response was insufficient, Mark again asked Rowley to clarify whether or not he was the individual who “inserted himself” in a meeting to discuss merit list for the position of acting police commissioner.
With the PSC inquorate, questions abound as to what will happen when McDonald Jacob's tenure as acting police commissioner ends on October 15, since it is the PSC which is responsible for the appointment of an acting police commissioner.
Rowley said on Saturday, “The police service will just be run by the deputy commissioner, who is now acting as commissioner of police. That is what will happen. There is no need for the country to get capsized over that.
“Once a commission is in place, they pick up the baton there and proceed to go through the process of appointing a commissioner. In the meantime, the deputy commissioner is in the post and will continue to run the police service. If his acting as commissioner is struck down by the court, then he has another position, deputy commissioner,” Rowley said.
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar has claimed that Rowley met with President Paula-Mae Weekes on August 12 to discuss the list of nominees.
Speaking on Sunday, Mark said he wanted to ask Rowley: who did Bliss Seepersad (former PSC chairman) discuss the confidential merit list with and who was it that convinced her not to proceed to present that list to President Weekes?
“Who facilitated the meeting at President’s House or where was this meeting facilitated,” Mark asked.
Mark said, “The Prime Minister has to answer certain questions which the population requires clarification on, and this is the flippant, cavalier approach that he has taken on a very serious matter of trust and confidence, which they are in fact weakening, eroding and subverting.\"
Mark asked if it could be trusted that there was no political interference in public institutions that are supposed to be independent.
Mark claimed the Rowley-led Government did everything to undermine the PSC in order to determine who the next police commissioner will be.
A UNC press release, which was issued after Rowley's press conference on Saturday, also said that Rowley’s administrative error excuse for the PSC's collapse, was mind-boggling.
The release said Rowley did not try to defend Attorney General Faris Al Rawi’s “incompetence,\" which the UNC said
The Guyana Manufactur-ing and Services Association (GMSA) yesterday expressed concern over a shortage in molasses and restated a call for urgent action to safeguard the sugar industry.
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[This Day] The President of African Development Bank (AFDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has said that addressing the country's energy deficiency and reliability would boost the industrial sector performance and growth.
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With less than a month to go, the Democratic and GOP contenders for governor are fine-tuning their messages to voters, as polls show a close contest.
Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are the nominees for Virginia’s Governor for their respective parties.
Also on the ballot are State Delegate Hala Ayala, who represents the 51st District, and is the Democratic nominee for Lt.
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[Daily Trust] Ilorin -- On September 28, 2021, Kwara State found itself once again in national limelight following the uproar that greeted the demolition of a library complex named after the late political icon, Dr Olusola Saraki.
There were enough Black presenters to Cha-Cha slide at the family reunion but very few winners in the bunch.
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A jury on Thursday convicted a Tennessee state senator charged with using federal grant money awarded to a health care
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[Monitor] Acholi Sub-region leaders are crying foul over the procedural technicalities and taxing of payments set to be made to members under Acholi War Debt Claimants Association.
OPPOSITION senator Wade Mark has said the Commissioner of Police and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Selection Process) Order 2021 does not simplify the process, but rather, “interferes” with it.
He made the statements in the Senate on Monday morning.
Police Commissioner Gary Griffith’s contract ends in August and he has said he will be reapplying for the position.
On June 17, the government announced that the process of selecting a commissioner and three deputies will be shortened by removing the mandate to advertise the post internationally.
The new constitutional provision also allows the commission to submit to the President a list of suitable candidates from among the ranks, including anyone on contract or who had been previously employed on contract, to be nominated to act as commissioner and/or deputy, pending the appointment of a substantive office-holder.
Mark referenced a newspaper article with the headline \"Govt to simplify selection of top cop,\"saying it should have actually read “Govt moves to interfere with the selection process of the top cop.”
He said the headline was misleading, and that the Opposition was “not alone in expressing its concern” about it.
“This is not the first time that a PNM government has attempted to adjust, amend, change, alter, the selection process as it relates to the commissioner of police as well as a deputy.
He said he was “amazed and shocked that an attorney general can go on public TV and also have printed in the newspapers that this order seeks to simplify the process, when we know upon closer examination, it is aimed at interfering.”
He also said the new process would put the President in an “unenviable position.”
He said he can’t bring himself to believe these changes were part of a “premeditated attempt by this government to choose their own commissioner,” but he can instead accept there may have been oversights.
“The day we allow any political party to have the right to select a commissioner, that is the end of our democracy. We will have a police state in Trinidad and Tobago.
“Get back to the drawing board, return our independence, allow the Police Service Commission (PSC) to hire a firm to assist it and allow the PSC to send to the President the highest-ranked and -graded officer who would have topped the order of merit list, and that name should then be sent to the House of Representatives to approve or to deny.
“We cannot put the President in unenviable position.”
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As the last police cruiser passed me, the officer looked at me and slammed on his brakes; the others did the same.
The officer wasted no time jumping out of his car with his gun pointed at my window.
I was a Broward County prosecutor in the 1980s and I got stopped multiple times by city cops and the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
On this particular night, I was pulled over approximately at 11 p.m. To my surprise, the officers already knew my name and knew the names of all my friends who were in the car.
I immediately stopped moving and asked the reason for the stop and the other officer told me to ignore him.
It is unlikely Minister of Health and Wellness Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic’s decision not to contest the next general elections has anything to do with the botched effort by a local businessman to procure vaccines for Government. The assessment has come from political scientists Peter Wickham and Dr Kristina Hinds, who both believe Bostic has […]
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THE Prime Minister has so far failed to adequately address the Police Service Commission (PSC) implosion after its mishandling of the appointment of an acting police commissioner. Speaking on Sunday at a press conference at the Office of the Opposition Leader in Port of Spain, Opposition Senator Wade Mark said it was not enough for Dr Rowley to say the TTPS was fully functioning despite the PSC debacle. At a press conference on Saturday, the PM said the imbroglio involving […]
Previously vaccinated against Covid-19, Sen. Marvin Blyden pleaded not guilty Friday to a single misdemeanor charge of exposing others to a contagious disease.
