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1 week ago | 
guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong
Senior [email protected] incoming Estate Management and Business Development Company Ltd (EMBD) board will have the final say on the fate of its ongoing multi-million-dollar cartel lawsuit against a group of contractors, former EMBD officials and former housing minister and current Energy Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal.
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1 week ago | 
guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong
Senior [email protected] 69-year-old man has lost his bid to be legally recognised as having been in a cohabitation relationship with an 83-year-old woman suffering from dementia. Delivering a judgment yesterday, Justice Ricky Rahim rejected the application from the man, whose identity was withheld due to the nature of the case and the elderly woman’s medical condition.
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1 week ago | 
guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong
DEREK ACHONGSenior [email protected] Paria Fuel Trading Company Limited continues to refuse to disclose details of the individual fees paid to its attorneys for the Commission of Enquiry (CoE) into an incident at its Pointe-a-Pierre facility that claimed the lives of four divers in 2022.
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2 weeks ago | 
guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong
DEREK ACHONGSenior [email protected] former member of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) has lost his lawsuit over being placed on suspension for over three years due to a still ongoing probe into the deaths of two suspects in the murder of Andrea Bharatt. Delivering a judgment yesterday, High Court Judge Frank Seepersad rejected the judicial review lawsuit brought by PC Mikhail Gonzales against the Office of the Police Commissioner.
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2 weeks ago | 
guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong
DEREK ACHONGSenior [email protected] 35-year-old man from Diego Martin has been freed of murdering a neighbour in 2009. Sylvan “Split Peas” Thomas, of Covigne Road, Diego Martin, was acquitted of the charge at the end of his judge-alone trial before Justice Trevor Jones on Wednesday. Thomas was accused of murdering former Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) labourer Akiel Bernard on January 30, 2009.
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2 weeks ago | 
guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong
Senior [email protected] municipal police officer has won his appeal over the decision of the Police Commissioner to refuse him a personal firearm user’s licence (FUL). Delivering a decision yesterday, the Firearm Appeals Board, led by Chairman Faraaz Mohammed, upheld the appeal from the officer, whose name was withheld due to security concerns raised by his lawyers Lester Chariah and Kent Samlal.
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2 weeks ago | 
guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong
Senior [email protected] national security and law enforcement officials met yesterday evening to discuss allegations of a purported local link to an alleged attempt to destabilise Venezuela. Contacted yesterday, Defence Minister Wayne Sturge confirmed the meeting with high-ranking officials.
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3 weeks ago | 
guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong
Senior [email protected] families of at least two of the four divers, who perished in a tragedy at Paria Fuel Trading Company’s Pointe-a-Pierre facility in 2022, have brought claims against their former employer under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. This week, the Judiciary issued a notice of the claim made against Land and Marine Contracting Services Limited (LMCS) by relatives of Fyzal Kurban.
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3 weeks ago | 
guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong
Senior [email protected] chief magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar has resumed duties as a High Court Judge. Guardian Media understands that Ayers-Caesar took up duties in the Judiciary last month, weeks after the United Kingdom-based Privy Council delivered judgment in the final appeal of her lawsuit over being pressured by Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC) and its chairman, Chief Justice Ivor Archie, into resigning almost eight years ago.
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3 weeks ago | 
guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong
A 37-year-old man from Freeport has been freed of having sex with a teenager. The man, whose identity was withheld based on the nature of the case and its eventual outcome, was acquitted of the sexual penetration of a minor charge at the end of his judge-alone trial before Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds on Monday. He was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl in a guest house in Chase Village in January, last year.
