13 PM Kamla says firm ‘no’ to early elections in TT T News
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RINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar over the weekend pledged the start of new projects and the continuation of economic growth which she indicated will create in excess of 30,000 jobs over six years, as the People’s Partnership government marked four years in office. At a rally held at Mid Centre Mall, Chaguanas, the Prime Minister also announced an audit of the Ministry of Sport’s Life Sport programme and said the programme would be shifted to the Ministry of National Security. Persad-Bissessar’s speech came one day after a joint PNM/tradeunion march against the government calling for a general election. However, the Prime Minister was defiant and once more pledged there would be no early general election. In a no holds
the past regime, a current list of what she said were achievements, and goals for the future.
New investments
United National Congress (UNC) supporters in Trinidad express their support for UNC political leader and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar outside of Tower D of the Port-of-Spain International Waterfront Centre last Friday (TT Newsday photo)
barred address, she hit back at Rowley. “Listen Mr Wannabe Prime Minister, no early elections. We will call it when it is due. The march buss. Mr Rowley I serve notice tonight, if you think I foolish like the PNM to call an election before time, I am not taking any basket! No elections before they
are due, none!” the Prime Minister declared. She stated too, “small vested interest groups, powerful groups,” were opposing the government with tactics of “divide and rule,” but gave no details. With a general election constitutionally due by 2015, PersadBissessar focused on a message looking back to
Teenager charged with murder of nine-year-old in Jamaica
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T JAMESJAMAICA: The police in Jamaica have charged a 15-yearold boy with the murder of nine-year-old St James schoolboy Romaine Robinson. The accused boy's name cannot be released because he is under the age of 18. Romaine was found last Thursday stabbed to death in the Plantation
Heights community in Cambridge, St James. The grade-three student at the Bickersteth Primary School was found by a resident who stumbled upon his bloodied body which was tied up in bushes. The body had stab wounds to the neck. It is reported that the accused teen, who also resides in Plantation Heights, fought with the
Search continues in Guyana for abducted baby
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E R B I C E GUYANA: Since the disappearance of 10-day-old baby “Avinash” in Guyana, family members and villagers have joined in the search with the hope of recovering the abducted infant. The baby of Number 60 Village, Corentyne was last seen in the company a woman who told the family her name was “Bibi Khan”, a name very popular in Guyana and is believed to be fictitious. The woman befriended the mother of the infant, Sandra McLean, also known as “Pinky”, telling her that she has a special interest in the baby. She lured McLean to Rose Hall Town, Corentyne and eventually to Port Mourant Market under the guise of buying stuff for the baby’s Ninth Day celebration. At the market, she
The infant reportedly kidnapped
put to work a carefully orchestrated plan and made good her escape with the baby. At the time, she was wearing a Black “Khemar” most likely to disguise herself, with a red short sleeved shirt and a blue skirt, knee high. She was also wearing glasses at the time. The Police are continuing their investigation. (Guyana Times)
nine-year-old boy before killing him. The teenager is to appear before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court later this week. (Jamaica Gleaner)
The Prime Minister announced the start, in San Fernando, of construction of a “5– Star Hotel, Convention Centre & Administrative Building”. “We propose to use 30 acres of land in the vicinity of the Tarouba stadium to construct an 18 storey administrative complex, in addition to a modern convention centre, the first to be built in our independence history,” the UNC politi-
cal leader said. “This site will be in proximity to the Pointe-a- Pierre Petrotrin facility, minutes away from a shopping mall and entertaining centre at Tarouba and along the new highway to Point Fortin, which we will complete.” Persad-Bissessar continued, “To complete this signature complex we propose to enhance business in the oil belt from Point Lisas to Point Fortin with the construction of a modern five star hotel, long awaited by the people of south Trinidad. This hotel will be integrated with the
Convention centre.” The Prime Minister said new jobs would be created as a result. “This new economic zone will create a further 2,000 permanent jobs in the administrative, hospitality and entertainment sectors,” she said. Persad-Bissessar also announced a housing rehabilitation programme for the State’s housing stock, called the “I Live Here” programme. She said this programme, which will be funded by the State to the tune of TT$100 million, would employ 500. (Excerpted from TT Newsday)