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Balgobin seeks clarity on homosexuality

Independent Senator Rolph Balgobin wants clarity from Government on questions of homosexuality, bisexuality, and marriage as it relates to homosexuality….


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I wanted to protect my baby

EVEN AS her flesh was being ripped out by three ferocious dogs during a mauling on Tuesday, shortly after she had dropped off her two young children to school, all that five-month pregnant mother of three Kurleen Cooper could think of was protecting her unborn baby. …


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Cheryl back to work

FIFTY-EIGHT days after she was forcibly removed from her cubicle at the Ministry of Gender, Youth and Child Development and sent to the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital where she was kept for 15 days, acting assistant accountant Cheryl Miller made a quiet return to work yesterday….


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LUCKY HARRY

IT’S A GOOD thing the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) did not put its money into Colonial Life Insurance Co (Clico), former HCU president Harry Harnarine gloats in his nearly 100-page witness statement submitted to the Colman Inquiry this week….


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Fraud Squad probe stalls

EVEN with the disclosure of millions worth of possibly illegal transactions in relation to the Hindu Credit Union (HCU), the Fraud Squad’s investigation into the defunct credit union appears to have stalled due to a lack of resources, according to testimony heard at the Colman Inquiry yesterday….


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Harnarine: I put $9 million in HCU

FORMER president of the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) Harry Harnarine has filed a witness statement to the Colman Inquiry in which he deposes that he never attempted to take any money out of the HCU on the verge of its collapse in 2008. He also urges the State to have a “heart” and boasts that he did not come to the HCU “a poor man”….


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Man on bigamy trial

A JURY in the San Fernando High Court yesterday heard how a man married a woman, then seven years after, proceeded to marry another without divorcing the first. Dexter Ian Marlon Alexander, 43, of Pleasantville went on trial on a charge of bigamy. …


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It’s litany mischief-making

Former prime minister Basdeo Panday suffered a blow to his defence yesterday, when Magistrate Marcia Murray dismissed his attorney’s “no case” submission….


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David unsure

MOVEMENT for Social Justice (MSJ) political leader David Abdulah yesterday described as “inappropriate” plans for the People’s Partnership (PP) coalition to hold a grand celebratory rally to mark its second anniversary in office, “when there are so many crucial issues facing the country.” …


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GROSS MISMANAGEMENT

DIRECTORS of credit unions – including persons like former HCU president Harry Harnarine – should be fined and made to pay out of their own pockets when presiding over illegal credit union transactions, the Commissioner for Cooperative Developments Karyl Adams advised the Colman Inquiry as he chided Harnarine for using “other people’s money” t…


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