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MAGCO’s 30th ANNIVERSARY and MARTIN’s BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. A CELEBRATION OF LIFE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

It was an epic celebration with about 300 guests who included Members of the Judiciary, the Legal Profession, including Senior Counsel Russell Martineau, members of the Medical fraternity, including Dr. Tiffany Hoyte, Dr. Nalini Kokaram, Dr. Sherene Kalloo, Government Ministers including Honourable Minister Donna Cox, Senators including Dr. Varma Deyalsingh, former Government Ministers such as Vasant Bharath, and many other VIP Guests along with my staff my friends my Family and many other well wishers and we all had a blast along with several businesspersons and Captains of Industry such as Angostura CEO Ian Forbes, former president of the JCC,...

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Tobago gets set to host inaugural carnival

TOBAGO is set to create history this week, hosting its first-ever Carnival, titled Ritual, Revelry, Release, from October 28-30. And as the journey to the long-awaited event enters its final leg, hundreds of visitors are expected on the island to participate in the festivities. Tobago Hotel and Tourism Association vice-president Carol-Ann Birchwood-James estimates that the occupancy rate in the accommodation sector is about 95 per cent among its membership. But she expects to get a clearer picture by Tuesday. Birchwood-James said two weeks ago four of the big hotels, two guesthouses and one villa were not fully booked. “But I would say at this...

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Attorneys: A money trail of millions, Faris has to account

The millions of dollars in taxpayers’ money spent in the persecution of former attorney general Anand Ramlogan raises issues of misbehaviour in office on the part of former attorney general Faris Al-Rawi. This is according to Pamela Elder, SC, who represented Ramlogan in the criminal proceedings brought against him by the State. Those matters against Ramlogan and former senator Gerald Ramdeen, an attorney, have now been discontinued by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). In a telephone interview with the Express yesterday, Elder said a statement submitted by Al-Rawi to the DPP, which contained exhibits, disclosed “astounding” fees paid to a junior attorney...

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Collapse of Ramlogan/Ramdeen case ‘a fiasco’, ‘mockery of justice system’—legal expert

‘A mockery of the justice system’ is how attorney-at-law Martin George is describing the decision to discontinue the corruption charges case against former Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, SC, and former Opposition Senator Gerald Ramdeen. The legal fee kickback case against the men collapsed after Jamaica-born British King’s Counsel Vincent Nelson declined to begin his testimony in the duo’s preliminary inquiry. “When you gave him these guarantees and these immunities, you ought to have ensured that whatever deal you were making was an airtight and a watertight deal that would guarantee that you would get your end,” Martin George points out. The attorney-at-law says...

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