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- 24 December, 2024
WATERING DOWN THE SILK BRANDY
At front centre was President Christine Kangaloo, who took heat last year after her husband Kerwin Garcia and brother Colin Kangaloo were awarded senior counsel status less than two months after she became Head of State.
ONLY A FOOL BREAKS HIS OWN HEART
Ancel Roget, whose Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) is considered the most powerful labour body in the land, announced that the working class was pitching its electoral support to the UNC.
NOW EXTORTIONISTS TARGET DOUBLES VENDORS
BRUTAL criminal extortionists are now targeting doubles and other hard-working wayside vendors.
The thugs are pouncing upon the street hawkers and demanding a monthly sum as “protection money” to ensure the safety of the vendors and their loved ones.
WHO IS THE CABINET SNITCH?
ALL is not as well in the Cabinet as Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley makes it appear.
The ruling party, which has an ingrained culture of collective responsibility and confidentiality, is now displaying subtle signs of disagreement.
WHO ‘CHAINED UP’ PM GONZALES AT MANNING BOOK LAUNCH?
ST. VINCENT Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves shocked many in bringing regional politics to last week’s launch of a biography of his late friend Patrick Manning.
WHAT IS LABOUR CELEBRATING?
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley says there is no poverty in the land because a reggae concert was sold out.
NOT SO FAST, IMBERT
IN its 2015 general election manifesto, the People’s National Movement (PNM) promised to decrease Value Added Tax (VAT) from 15 to 12.5 per cent.
Finance Minister Colm Imbert did so in his first Budget.
$142,000 A YEAR FOR UWI DEGREE
THE St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies is imposing a staggering $142,200 a year tuition fee for a bachelor’s degree.
A “full fee-paying” cohort of students will be enrolled for the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BMBS) degree in September.
BMBS is a five-year course of study at the Faculty of Medical Sciences.
REVEALED: CABINET NOTE ON $2.3 B ADD-ON TO BUDGET
THE following is Finance Minister Colm Imbert’s note to Cabinet on May 21, 2024 with a request for $2.3 billion more to be added to the 2023-2024 national budget.
CUMMINGS’ FIGHTBACK AGAINST ROWLEY
THE decision of PNM General Secretary Foster Cummings to sue the State over a personal issue is a fight-back over his reduced role in the ruling party.
