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Activist wins case against SSA
“Social and political activist Ravi Balgobin Maharaj has won his lawsuit against the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) over the disclosure of information related to its wire-tapping activities…” Read more

30 police sergeants seek to get colleagues’ injunction lifted
“A group of 30 police Sergeants have applied to have an injunction preventing all promotions to the rank of Inspector, obtained by a group of their colleagues, lifted…” Read more

Hang up on jokey TSTT case
“FRIDAY’S ruling by the Court of Appeal that the Telecommunication Services (TSTT) is a public body subject to the Freedom of Information Act was an inevitable outcome which now provides clarification on a matter that should never have required clarification in the first place…” Read more

Jacob in the dark about TTPS release
“Acting Police Commissioner McDonald Jacob said last night he was in the dark over a news release issued by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), inviting the media to a news conference today with “Mr McDonald Jacob” and “Mr Gary Griffith”…” Read more

Opposition Leader condemns Armour’s attack on Judge
“Attorney General Armour’s pathetic press conference to explain why he and his sidekick Faris Al-Rawi failed to defend…” Read more

Policeman wins promotion lawsuit
“…The Police Promotion Advisory Board (PPAB) has been ordered to immediately consider Constable Ramdath Phillip, of the Southern Division, for promotion…” Read more

State to pay 2 women for illegal quarantine
“THE State now has to fork out more than $.2 million to pay two women who were under State-supervised quarantine in 2020, having been suspected of contracting Covid-19 but turned out to be negative…” Read more

Judge condemns police actions
“A HIGH COURT judge has condemned the actions of two policemen who sexually harassed a suspect they arrested and held for two days at the Four Roads station in February 2017, before releasing her without charges…” Read more

Trini denied entry home during pandemic: ‘Money can’t fix what’s broken’
“Those were the words of Joanne Pantin, one of two women who sued the State after being stranded abroad when Trinidad and Tobago closed its borders during the covid19 pandemic in March 2020…” Read more

Health Ministry faces lawsuit for allowing facility to stay open
“The family of a man who died while housed at the Transformed Life Ministries Rehabilitation Centre last year, is considering suing the Ministry of Health for its alleged negligence in allowing the facility to be operated…” Read more

Court told to hear appeal on open air cremations
“A legal victory was achieved yesterday with the Court of Appeal ruling that the ban on open air pyre cremations of Covid-19 victims must return to the High Court for urgent hearing…” Read more

Judge to rule on August 8 after CEPEP attorneys challenge jurisdiction
“A HIGH Court lawsuit challenging the termination of contracts for a Laventille-based general contracting company and over 300 other Community-based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) contractors faces a decisive moment next month…Read more“
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