Daily Archive: Monday, September 12, 2011

Articles published on Monday, September 12, 2011

Leila Lopes being crowned (AP photo)

Miss Angola wins Miss Universe

Sao Paulo (Reuters) – Miss Angola Leila Lopes, a business  student from the town of Benguela in her home country, was  crowned Miss Universe yesterday after dazzling a panel of  judges with her beauty and impressing them with her brain.

T&T Govt seeks to buy out Clico policyholders

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government is moving to cross the final parliamentary hurdle in order to issue payments to Clico policyholders as Finance Minister Winston Dookeran is expected to present two bills for debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

Region Three drivers to set up Road Safety Council

Region Three drivers agreed to establish a Road Safety Council and to conduct lectures on road safety in schools and communities, at a meeting with Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee on Sunday as part of the ministry’s programme to encourage citizen participation in road safety.

Ravi Bopara

England and India tie as Bopara falls before rain

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England completed a series victory over world champions India yesterday after the fourth one-day international at Lord’s ended in a Duckworth/Lewis tie on Sunday when rain forced the players off the field with seven balls remaining.

‘Hard road to travel’

Dear Editor, At a community meeting during the early 2000s, the Minister of Local Government took the liberty to inform the residents of Kwakwani of all the projects with attached costs that had been undertaken by his ministry in the sub-region of Region Ten.

Kumar Sangakkara

Sangakkara leads Lanka fightback

PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka came up with a vastly improved performance in their second innings yesterday, leaving the onus of saving the second test against Australia on two of their most experienced batsmen, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene.

United Nations compares T&T murder rate to Iraq

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago now rivals Jamaica as the most violent country in the Caribbean, with the number of annual murders rising sharply from 98 to 550 over the last decade, with some areas in the Port of Spain police division being listed among the most dangerous in the world.

Deborah Thomas-Felix

SEC develops CARICOM takeover code

(Trinidad Guardian) Regional Securities and Exchange Commission heads (SEC) are said to be working on a common policy to govern the way takeovers and acquisitions of companies within CARICOM are done says local SEC chairman Deborah Thomas-Felix.

Bouzaid Dorda

At bay, captured Libyan spy chief defiant

TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – Defiant and angry, captured  Libyan spy chief Bouzaid Dorda denied any wrongdoing when he was  presented to Reuters reporters yesterday by the former  insurgents who tracked him down in the capital Tripoli the  previous day.

The war on terrorism

Photos and interviews by Marcelle Thomas With yesterday marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the US, this week we asked the man and woman in the street what were their thoughts on the war on terrorism and whether it was being won.

Good catch:

Good catch: These two friends were excited by their first catch of a ‘Basha’ fish at the jetty in Kingston yesterday afternoon.

I conducted a mini-poll

Dear Editor, Firstly, I must confess that I am no political pollster and the only experience I had about polling was when I was living in Trinidad in 2001 I assisted a polling organization in that country for the general elections there.