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Sport Minister Anil Roberts blasted the local cricket and athletic bodies for being willfully blind to the truth and fiddling with facts regarding team selection and an objection to the Ministry’s elite funding policy. Roberts then claimed that there was no conflict of interest involving a $1.9 million boxing card …

Herbert Volney accused the Opposition Leader of treachery over leaked “death threat” report that suggested the PM overreacted — any irony is unintentional. More from Wired868 Missing the Faris for the trees? Mr Live Wire gets another political lecture from a mysterious man (Scene: A dapper gentleman examines a humble …

CAL spent over $250,000 to send a Pundit to join the PM’s entourage in India. More from Wired868 Fitzie loses his Works, Works, Works, Works! Keithos turns to Ish and Warner’s pardner, Sinanan When the first two people to offer congratulations to your new Minister of Works might well be …

Trinidad and Tobago Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs started 2012 being blasted by Government and Opposition members for his performance levels and is now obliged to probe his own men over leaked reports to the Opposition Leader. Meanwhile, Police Service Commission Chairman Ramesh Deosaran ordered “emergency meeting” with the CoP towards …

Former Finance Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira claimed yesterday, during the State enquiry into the billion dollar collapse of insurance giants CLICO, that she was in the dark about everything—including her own actions. Nunez-Tesheira and her sister broke their deposits four weeks before the company crashed. She insisted that her actions were …

After seven months of “preliminary investigations” into the crash of Caribbean Airlines flight BW523, which overshot the runway at the Cheddi Jaggan Airport in Georgetown, the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) declared yesterday that the accident was due to “insufficient runway” for the pilot’s landing. The Civil Aviation Authority of …