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By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO Gov.-Elect Wes Moore has reached out to some incredibly talented individuals to become members of his front-line team. A couple of his top […]
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Imbert said the government will adjust the criteria for accessing GATE. He said students with good standing, enrolled in accredited institutions and programmes will qualify if they completed an initial programme of study.#ttbudget2023
— T&T Newsday (@Newsday_TT) September 26, 2022
3 GOVT GUARANTEED LOANS FOR THE HDC totaling to $1.5 billion.
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said $500 million will be used for stalled or existing projects, $500 mil for debt owed to contractors and $500 mil for the construction of new housing units. @Newsday_TT
— Narissa Fraser (@rhopico) September 26, 2022
He said the difference in revenue would be better spent in social grants, where $5.4 billion is spent per year, food support, on which $175 million is utilised, disability grants at $630 million, and social assistance grants, which cost $355 million.https://t.co/9lsgAsolSF
Finance Minister Colm Imbert said the government has allocated $300m for agricultural incentives, infrastructure and programmes.#ttbudget2023
Finance Minister Colm Imbert says that right now, the 4 % proposed increase in wages to public sector workers is the best the government can do.#Budget2023 @Newsday_TT
Finance Minister Colm Imbert says that right now, the 4 % proposed
POLICE have seized a kilo of cocaine and a quantity of ammunition following a search in Maraval on Saturday night.
Police said officers of the North Eastern Division's Emergency Response Patrol received information that the drugs and ammunition were being hidden in Morne Coco Road at around 8 pm.
Police went to the area and found a black bag in some bushes near the road. Inside the bag, police found 20 rounds of 5.56 ammunition as well as the drugs with the latter wrapped in a clear plastic.
No one was arrested. Acting Cpl Ramroop and PC Bramble were involved in the search.
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Join Al McFarlane (Host), Brenda Lyle-Gray (Co-Host) and Special Guest Co-Host Psychologist, Dr. Bravada Garrett-Akinsanya, …
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A Facebook post that Kassie Vaughan shared about her brother, Kastellio Vaughan, has captured the attention of incarcerated advocacy groups. The post has been shared over 18,000 times and shows the 32-year-old incacerated man allegedly needing severe medical attention. The post included a photo of a healthy Vaughan, accompanied by disturbing photos showing him emaciated. In one of the photos, Vaughan’s eyes appear to be rolling back into his head. “VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED,” Vaughan captioned the post. “MY BROTHER KASTELLIO VAUGHAN,” she continued. “He’s currently an inmate placed at Elmore Correctional Facility. I’m coming to you right now based on my brother’s health. My brother’s health is rapidly declining. As you can see in these photos he is extremely malnourished. In these particular photos he cannot walk nor stand he is weak and vulnerable. My last visitation with my brother was July 24, 2022 he was in good condition. I am not a doctor but his health seems to be...
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A seven-storey building collapsed on Monday morning in Kirigiti village, Kiambu town. The building fell on a nearby houses causing injuries to four people. Efforts to rescue a family that is believed to be trapped inside are ongoing. Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi and police officers are on site to lead the rescue operations. More to […]
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The coach Jose Peseiro tutored side had been in another city, Constantine, in the past days
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Oakland Unified School District has remained under FCMAT’s domination since the state took over in 2003. Already, under FCMAT’s leadership, more than 30 Oakland schools have been closed. Now, in the 2021-2023 school years, 13 additional Oakland schools have either been closed or are expected to close at the end of this school year.
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By Michael Phillis, Associated Press Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last seven miles the road […]
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LOTTO Results edit post Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 28 February 2021 2021-02-28 edit post Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 27 February 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attending funerals on behalf of the United States is normally a straightforward assignment for a vice president,
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Elijah McClain was a 23-year-old Black man who died seven days after his encounter with Colorado police. A lover of animals and music, McClain was walking home from a convenience store wearing a ski mask in Aurora, CO , when someone called the cops to report a suspicious person. Three officers arrived on the scene and attempted to arrest McClain, who was unarmed. After struggling to handcuff him, he was placed in a chokehold. It was reported that McClain’s last words were that of confusion. He did not understand why he was being restrained and also informed authorities he was having trouble breathing. According to his family, McClain had a blood condition that constantly made him feel cold, which is why he wore a ski mask that night. “I can’t breathe. I have my ID right here. My name is Elijah McClain. That’s my house. I was just going home. I’m an introvert. I’m just different. That’s all. I’m so sorry. I have no gun. I don’t do that stuff. I don’t do any fighting. Why are you...
THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine has admitted million-dollar contracts were awarded to Trinidad contractors.
At a media conference last Friday, PNM Tobago Council leader and former chief secretary Ancil Dennis produced documents and accused Augustine of hypocrisy.
He claimed the PDP administration had approved $309 million to Trinidad contractors in one month for infrastructural work, recalling that the “PDP administration sold the people of Tobago a mandate on a platform that involved putting Tobago first.”
He said no tendering process was used for the contracts.
Augustine responded
on the Tobago Updates morning show on Monday.
“There is little validity in what he presented about one of the documents being valid, but I assure you that no one was sole-selected.”
He said in the case of these contracts, the executive gave the division, and rightfully so, the authority to use its procurement mechanism, project managers, along with its technical expertise, to determine the fastest way to get the contracts done.
“I assure you, the division did not use a sole-select mechanism to get the contracts done. In fact, I am advised that 40 contractors were evaluated. That was then brought down to seven. Three were then selected.”
He said these contracts are design, build and finance.
“The THA is not paying these contractors up front. In fact, the THA would not be paying these contractors until nine months after completion, nine months after a proper certificate of completion is done.
\"In other words, those that would have to do these contracts would have to have capacity, will have to have the skill set and expertise, would have to have the finance up front 100 per cent, will have to have the ability to wait nine-plus months to be paid in total – nine-18 months in this case.”
He said Secretary of the Division of Infrastructure, Quarries and Urban Development Trevor James is expected to “give a broader explanation on it, but I assure you – none of these contracts were sole-selected.”
He said if a tendering process or a selective tendering process is opened, then one cannot stop Trinidad contractors from getting into the pool.
“That is the reality. Similarly, there are Tobago contractors that get into the pool in Trinidad because how do you go to court and say, 'Well, we stopped everybody who wasn’t Tobagonian from the beginning of these contracts'?
\"You will lose legally, because there is a right to equality of treatment, and it remains one country. That is just one of the unfortunate things.”
He said Tobago has to “continuously build the capacity of local Tobago contractors.
“We have to build their capacities, and also, we have to be reminded (of) what happened as recent(ly) as in the lead-up to the THA elections (in January and December 2021), where several Tobago contractors either stole from or have been attempting to steal from the very THA that they are supposed to protect.
\"So when we are talking about Tobago and Tobago’s development, we also have to have a firm position in protecti
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said a plan submitted to Texas environmental regulators to remediate legacy rail yard contamination in a north Houston neighborhood won’t be sufficient after the city’s health […]
The Alabama Department of Corrections is under fire after disturbing pictures of an inmate, Kastello Demarcus Vaughan, were shared on social media.
