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US provides fingerprinting equipment to Caribbean countries
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada Monday became the second Caribbean country to receive an automated fingerprinting identification system (AFIS) from the United States as part of the efforts to assist in crime solving in the region. “Together all these islands will be able to work to help each other solve crime,” said US Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern…
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Aid shortfalls jeopardize Haiti’s humanitarian programs
For the first time since four back-to-back storms and hurricanes battered Haiti five years ago, the U.N.’s lead feeding program and other agencies don’t have enough food to stockpile in strategic areas before a major storm hits. In some of the most remote corners of the country, people are dying needlessly of cholera because treatment centers have been abandoned, aid…
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‘Bring Jack Back’ group formed
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Disbelief, hurt, disappointment and sadness gave way to determination yesterday as hundreds of people from the constituency of Chaguanas West came together to form a lobby group called “Bring Jack Back.” Led by chairman of the La Paille/Caroni party group, Indal Singh, supporters vowed to shake up the People’s Partnership Government if Prime Minister Kamla…
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Post-Jack, Partnership future hangs in balance
balance PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – APRIL 21, 2013 counted as the first day in the rest of the life of the People’s Partnership, born exactly three years before in Fyzabad. Headlines yesterday reported the departure of Jack Warner, maybe the most fearsome of the political heavyweights in the Partnership that became the Government. Mr Warner proved also to be…
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Resignation long overdue
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Commerce said yesterday it was “pleased” with the resignation of Jack Warner as National Security Minister as it was long overdue. The organisation, however, lamented a continued lack of transparency in the Government. The Chamber said while the adage of “innocent until proven guilty” should apply to each individual,…
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MP stays with UNC, gives up chair
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – “Don’t cry for Jack Warner, you haven’t seen Jack Warner yet.” That was the message to supporters yesterday from Jack Warner who has resigned as national security minister and chairman of the United National Congress (UNC). Warner met executive members of his Chaguanas West constituency office yesterday to explain why he believed the time had…
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Jack Warner’s humiliating end
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – After Friday’s revelations at Fifa, enumerated in a damning report prepared by Sir David Simmons and released to the public, it was just a matter of time before the People’s Partnership Government and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar would have had to make a decision about Jack Warner. The report, which listed many troubling findings about…
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EDITORIAL – Warner’s Stench And Lessons For The PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – For decades, wherever he has stood, especially with regard to football, Austin 'Jack' Warner left a stench – of the type most people associate with corruption. That, of course, has never been proven where such things are determined – in courts of law. What was unique about Mr Warner, though, is that those closest to him seemed…
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PM says Jack Warner was a distraction to government
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar said she accepted the resignation of her embattled national security minister Austin “Jack” Warner because he had become a major distraction to the work of her coalition People’s Partnership government. “Mr Warner’s resignation from the Cabinet comes with a degree of regret as he was a highly industrious and…
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