Crimestoppers International conference – Singapore
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Continue readingTHE TT Registered Nurses Association, through its attorneys Martin George and Company, has issued a pre-action protocol letter to Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh after he re-appointed former president of the TT Nursing Council David Murphy. His term ended in April. President of the TTRNA Idi Stuart said the president of the council is supposed to be elected by the nurses and mid-wives. He said the minister knew the former president to be problematic and was aware the nursing association did not want him on the council. He said the TTRNA's members were "shocked" that the minister took such action. Stuart said...
Continue readingMinister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh has been served with a pre-action protocol letter as multiple nurses associations in the country are seeking to overturn what they consider an “unethical” appointment to the Nursing Council of Trinidad and Tobago. The Trinidad and Tobago Registered Nurses Association, the Psychiatric Nurses Association of Trinidad and Tobago and the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Midwives issued the letter to the Minister through their attorney Martin George. Their contention; the Minister’s decision to name David Alexander Murphy as one of his six appointees to the Nursing Council. The Ministry appointed Murphy as a member of the council on...
Continue readingThe Tobago Business Chamber is calling for the removal of Value Added Tax (VAT) from goods on the island. “If the 12.5 per cent VAT is removed it will encourage greater investment in Tobago. Persons will come and set up businesses or come to retire,” Chamber head Martin George said in an audio response to the 2019/2020 Budget. George, who had mixed reviews to the budgetary measures announced by Finance Minister Colm Imbert on Monday, applauded the increase in wages for CEPEP and URP workers but criticised the lack of action on the Foreign Investment Act which restricts the acreages of land,...
Continue readingTOBAGO BUSINESS CHAMBER and its Chairman Martin George teamed up last week with the Indian High Commission, bringing together a team of high powered Tobago Business persons to discuss and brainstorm business ideas and economic solutions for Tobago. Indian High Commissioner Ambassador Sahu and his entourage flew over to Tobago and shared dinner, good conversation and business ideas with Business Executives from Pennysaver's Supermarket, Martineau Construction and Transport, Buccoo Town Centre & Atlantic on the Edge Townhouse Development, Singh's Hardware and Construction and a representative from the Education sector in Tobago. Emerging from the discussions the High Commission expressed interest in setting...
Continue readingThe operations of the Nursing Council of T&T are set to resume, later this week. During a hearing of a lawsuit brought by ousted council president David Murphy at the Hall of Justice in Port-of-Spain, yesterday morning, a representative of the Ministry of Health informed High Court Judge Frank Seepersad that six members of the council are expected to be appointed by Wednesday. The official stated that Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh had received Cabinet approval for the appointments and was in the process of sending letters to the appointees. The move, which was encouraged by Seepersad during a previous hearing, last month, will...
Continue readingTOBAGO'S $2.23b slice of the $53b national budget will be enough to only pay wages and bills according to Martin George, interim chairman of the Tobago Business Chamber. Speaking hours after Finance Minister Imbert delivered his fifth budget on Monday, George told Newsday that after the THA uses 90 per cent of the allocation for recurrent expenditure, Tobago will not have enough money for critical development in the next fiscal year. "So what will there be for capital expenditure, infrastructural development and investment in building up the business capacity of Tobago," George asked. "We would have hoped there was a greater emphasis...
Continue readingCase No: CO/4862/2001 Neutral Citation Number: [2002] EWHC 734 (Admin) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Royal Courts of Justice Strand, London, WC2A 2LL Wednesday 17th April 2002 Before : LORD JUSTICE MAY and THE HON. MR JUSTICE WRIGHT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In the matter of an application for Judicial Review The Queen on the application of P (a minor (by the Official Solicitor, his litigation friend) Versus Barking Youth Court The Crown Prosecution Service (Interested Party) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (Transcript...
Continue readingJudgments R v B Criminal law - Trial - Fitness to plead - Voyeurism - Defendant suffering from autistic spectrum disorder - Defendant using changing room cubicles at sports centre - Two mothers alleging that whilst sons changing into swimming trunks, defendant observing naked sons - Defendant charged with two counts of voyeurism - Judge ruling defendant not fit to plead or stand trial - Judge ruling all prosecution required to prove in each case was that defendant had observed boy doing private act - Judge giving direction to jury to that effect - Jury subsequently determining defendant had committed 'the act...
Continue reading/2009, Volume 73/Issue 3, June/Case Notes/Court of Appeal: Unfit to Plead and Diminished Responsibility – JCL 73 (196) Journal of Criminal Law JCL 73 (196) 1 June 2009 Court of Appeal: Unfit to Plead and Diminished Responsibility R v Moyle (Peter Geoffrey) [2008] EWCA Crim 3059 Laura Madhloom © Vathek Publishing, 2009 Keywords Murder; Manslaughter; Diminished responsibility; Fitness to plead; Fresh evidence The victim (B), aged 67, was knocked to the ground outside a public house and repeatedly kicked by the appellant (M), who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. B sustained serious head injuries which caused his death. The issues for the jury were, whether M had caused the injury...
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