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Parliament hits pirates (Source: newsday.co.tt)
IS Parliament just a talk-shop of unfulfilled vows, such as new laws which no one has any intention of ever actually enforcing? Just as bad, is it just a battlefield of vested interest-groups, but with no one speaking for the silent masses, that is, the man in the street? [Full Story]
URL: http://www.newsday.co.tt/politics/0,73422.html
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Grande man shot in head (Source: newsday.co.tt)
A 32-YEAR-OLD man of Sangre Grande was shot in the head after he refused to hand over a bag of money to a lone gunman who attempted to rob him while on the way to a construction site in Cumuto. The man identified as Boyd Garcia of Rampersad Trace was up to yesterday listed in a critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit of the Port-of-Spain Gen(...) [Full Story]
URL: http://www.newsday.co.tt/crime_and_court/0,73420.html
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Soca artiste runs from man wielding chinese chopper (Source: newsday.co.tt)
FAMILY AFFAIR party cruise aboard the Treasure Queen was forced to anchor during the wee hours of yesterday morning after an enraged man stormed into the kitchen area and grabbed a chinese chopper and ran out in the dancing area. [Full Story]
URL: http://www.newsday.co.tt/crime_and_court/0,73421.html
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CANCER SCANDAL (Source: trinidadexpress.com)
Over $100 million has been spent on the construction of the National Oncology Centre, which, to date, remains incomplete, Health Minister Jerry Narace said yesterday. [Full Story]
URL: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161279121
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Joseph hedges on corrupt cops charge (Source: guardian.co.tt)
NATIONAL Security Minister Martin Joseph has said that discussions are under way to determine what approach should be taken to investigate the allegations of corruption in the Southern Division of the Police Service... [Full Story]
URL: http://guardian.co.tt/archives/2008-02-16/news10.html
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Trini students escape (Source: newsday.co.tt)
FOUR Trini-born students who were attending pan class at the Northern Illinois University (NIU), USA on Thursday when university student Steven Kazmierczak went on a murderous rampage, shooting 21 students five fatally are all alive and accounted for. [Full Story]
URL: http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,73342.html
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Kidnap victim sent to St Judes (Source: newsday.co.tt)
SHANNON BEDASIE is safe. The 13-year-old who was reported kidnapped from the Couva home of her father Simeon on Tuesday, was released by her abductors near the Queens Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain on Thursday night. [Full Story]
URL: http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,73343.html
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...Opposition calls for Commission of Enquiry (Source: trinidadexpress.com)
Hours after Health Minister Jerry Narace revealed in the Parliament that the contract for the $340 million Oncology Centre had gone awry, the Opposition UNC-A yesterday called for a Commission of Enquiry into Government contracts, charging that Government was condoning "official corruption in the procurement and tendering process of agencies of the State". [Full Story]
URL: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161279119
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Opposition bid to discuss crime fails...again (Source: guardian.co.tt)
DEPUTY SPEAKER Pennelope Beckles yesterday turned down a request by Oropouche MP Dr Roodal Moonilal to discuss the recent killings and criminal attack on police officers, judicial officers and other law enforcement officials... [Full Story]
URL: http://guardian.co.tt/archives/2008-02-16/news11.html
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Beenie Man gunned down in Cocorite (Source: guardian.co.tt)
EVEN as Opposition members and the Commissioner of Police were locked in crime talks at the Police Administration building in Port-of-Spain yesterday, officers of the Homicide Bureau were busy in Cocorite, where the murder tally for 2008 hit 54... [Full Story]
URL: http://guardian.co.tt/archives/2008-02-16/news13.html
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