Month: August 2010

   Chief Elections Officer Goocool Boodhoo says the second cycle of the continuous registration process will begin on Monday, September 6. This he claims is in accordance with the law and the commencement order and registration offices will be published in the press. According to Boodhoo, the commission will be meeting with the chief scrutineers, next Wednesday, on the preparedness of the registration offices after which the locations of those offices, and official hours of work would be published.

   The African Culture Development Association (ACDA) claims that the organizers of the 170th Anniversary Celebrations in the village of Buxton has used the occasion to demoralize a people struggling to rid themselves of State oppression, poverty, cultural and spiritual depression. The celebrations was to mark African Emancipation but according ACDA it turned out to be a low act of self inflicting damage to a people whose rich issue of struggle, independence, self reliance and opposition to oppressors was compromised in a most disrespectful manner.

   While some Trinidadians are expressing their disappointment over the failure of LaToya Woods to make the top 15 in the Miss Universe Competition last night, they are also praising Miss Jamaica for being the first runner-up to Miss Mexico in last night’s finals in Nevada. In fact some believe Miss Jamaica, Yendi Phillipps was seriously robbed and should have been given the crown.

Minutes to 16:00 h today a pedal cyclist 47 year old Ronald Gadrinauth was struck down on the Anna Regina Public Road, Essequibo by a motor lorry GLL 8953. The man was rushed to the Suddie Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Several eyewitnesses say that the lorry was speeding at the time and the driver could not control the lorry when he hit the man. The driver of the motor lorry is in police custody assisting with the investigations. Statistics have showed that the rate in fatal accidents for this period compare to last year has increased.

PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar has been ranked as one of the top ten female leaders around the world, by Time Magazine. Persad-Bissessar is listed among German Chancellor Angela Merkel Australian PM Julia Gillard.

  Homicide detectives are investigating the murder of two teenagers outside a primary school in St Joseph earlier today. Dead are 14-year-old Kissoon Persad and 18-year-old Hassan Murray. The duo were said to be guarding the Star of Hope preschool at Farm Road St Joseph when they were fatally shot around 1 a.m. today.

  Miss Trinidad and Tobago, Latoya Woods, is not expected to finish in the top 15 at tonight’s Miss Universe pageant, beauty experts have predicted today. Woods is tipped to place 17 out of the 83 girls participating at the pageant which is scheduled to take place at the Mandalay Hotel in Las Vegas tonight.

Prison officers have been able to secure a meeting with Gary Griffith, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on national security issues, after staging a silent protest outside the office of the Prime Minister in St Clair this morning.
They are calling on the Government to do more to protect officers both on and off duty.
Within the last few months a number of prisons officers have been attacked and some killed in incident police suspect are directly related to their jobs.

    Trinidad and Tobago’s Miss Universe contestant LaToya Woods will be vying for the crown tonight when the pageant, which stirred some controversy this year, culminates in La Vegas, Nevada. Woods, raised eyebrows and spraked a debate when she, along with a few other contestants, opted to pose for photos in nothing but body paint on to promote a segment of the competition earlier this month.

   The main opposition PNC/R today says the Jagdeo Administration is intensifying its continuing programme to destabilise the Georgetown Mayor and City Council. The Administration has not disguised its ambition to replace the Georgetown Mayor and City Council with its own hand-picked Interim Committee, before Local Government Elections are held.