Tag Archives: Reginald Armour

Nearly 80 per cent of the people responding to a survey done by the Environmental Management Authority (EMA) said fireworks affected them negatively. Without knowing the extent of the survey, it is still a large and significant proportion.  Another of their surveys said the majority of the animals affected (60 …

All of last week there was intense focus on whether, in the words of one editorial writer, the Attorney General “told an untruth in a sworn affidavit in the Miami court”. All three daily newspapers in the course of the week contained editorials severely critical of the Attorney General (the …

The ultimate sin today is criticising a group, especially on moral grounds. We live in a nihilistic post-shame era. There are no permanent standards, just the shifting judgment of the crowd.  We have a culture of oversensitivity, overreaction and frequent moral panics, during which everybody feels compelled to go along. …

God has a sense of humour. In 2017, Reginald Armour SC defended the Government in a Judicial Review case brought by a public servant seeking to establish the bounds of authority that the Prime Minister had on his ambassadorial posting.  By 2019, in the Court of Appeal, he won with …

United National Congress (UNC) politician and former minister of agriculture, Devant Maharaj, has failed to convince the San Fernando High Court of Justice that he is a journalist who is being unfairly kept out of press briefings by the Ministry of Communication and its line minister, Senator Donna Cox. Justice …

On 26 November 2016, Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams and his board of directors were mandated by the local football body’s general council to seek to invalidate its contract with the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) and Traffic Sports USA, the Brazilian arm of a Brazilian sports …

From 3.30pm today, Judge Mira Dean-Armorer should give a decision in the Port of Spain High Court that, one way or the other, is likely to leave a lasting imprint on the tenure of Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams. The local football body is defending itself against a …

There were a few tackles and spells of high pressing. But, at the end of yesterday’s AGM, Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams might have been tempted to pour himself a glass of celebratory wine. Since the football body’s last AGM, the John-Williams-led organisation had: used TTFA …

Attorney Jonathan Bhagan, one of 30 signatories on a no confidence motion against Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) president Reginald Armour SC and vice-president Gerry Brooks, confirmed today that he was not misled into signing the controversial requisition by UNC Senator Wayne Sturge. “Mr Sturge did not attempt …

Former Attorney General Anand Ramlogan was a no-show while UNC Senators Wayne Sturge and Gerald Ramdeen refused to defend their own requisition, as a no confidence motion in Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) president Reginald Armour SC and vice-president Gerry Brooks came to a crushing defeat at a special …

Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) president Reginald Armour SC and vice-president Gerry Brooks will need the support of their membership to keep their respective positions, as they attempt to stave off a vote of no confidence instigated by a faction that includes former Attorney General Anand Ramlogan SC …