George Maxwell Richards News

Aaron Duncan takes a picture of President George Maxwell Richards and his wife Dr Jean Ramjohn-Richards. Photos: Andre Alexander Cherisse Moe On June 25, 2003, a star was born.

Francis Joseph Retired Justice of Appeal Anthony Lucky has described the non-gazetting of the Uff Commission of Enquiry as a tragedy of oversight.

HEARINGS of the Uff Commission of Inquiry, which will see further submissions on the controversial Cleaver Heights housing project in Arima and on links between Udecott executive chairman Calder Hart and a company his board awarded $638 million in contracts to, are scheduled to resume today.

Wrap Up: Chairman of the UDeCOTT Commission of Enquiry Prof John Uff yesterday. Justice Anthony Lucky has cast a wide net in his probe on the non-gazetting of the Commission of Enquiry into UDeCOTT and the construction sector.

'To be an advocate for differently-abled persons, one must appreciate the differences which make people different from each other.' This advice was given by President George Maxwell Richards yesterday at the formal opening of an $8 million wing of the National Centre for Persons with Disabilities in San Fernando.

Economist Dr Eric St Cyr and former Independent Senator Parvatee Anmolsingh-Mahabir are two persons whom President George Maxwell Richards have on his list as potential prospects to serve on the Integrity Commission.

Convicted killer Ronald Tewarie will no longer have the fear of going to the gallows.

A mini Carnival-like atmosphere captured the hearts of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip at Queena s Hall in Port-of-Spain yesterday.

First Citizens in move to streamline CMMB Ten months after Government signed a memorandum of understanding with CL Financial Group, as part of a financial bailout that included the brokerage firm, Caribbean Money Market Brokers , state-owned First Citizens is moving to reduce the salaries of scores of CMMB employees.

Although the wait in sweltering heat for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Memorial Park took longer than the actual wreath laying ceremony she performed, the occasion generated much excitement among the public.

Green. It was the colour of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting . After all, there is much talk about a oegreeninga the environment by reducing carbon emissions.

Green Queen HER Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is here. Her British Airways Boeing 777 jet airliner touched down yesterday at Piarco International Airport at exactly 2.44 pm, after a four-hour flight from Bermuda.

'Together we aspire, together we achieve' HER MAJESTY Queen Elizabeth II yesterday called upon Commonwealth leaders to adopt Trinidad and Tobago's national motto in order to find consensus on burning issues such as climate change, during their deliberations over the next two days at their meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Port-of-Spain. Her Majesty ...

The Queen will visit Canada next summer. The Queen makes a speech during a state dinner held in the grounds of President George Maxwell Richards' official Home in the Port of Spain, Trinidad, Thursday Nov.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II , makes a speech during a state dinner held in the grounds of President George Maxwell Richards ' official Home in the Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Looking on at right is President George Maxwell Richards. -Photo: ANISTO ALVES Queen Elizabeth II has offered assistance to Trinidad and Tobago in the area of national security.

Their next engagement today is a wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph, Port-of-Spain. The Royal Couple visited T&T for the first time in 1966 and subsequently in 1985.

The new instruments of appointment were made on November 17 by Richards and delivered to the commissioners a ' Professor John Uff, chairman, Desmond Thornhill and Kenneth Sirju.

THE next time you are about to indulge in a beastly cold gulp of that alcoholic beverage be mindful that one $9 beer could land you in a $8,000 deficit.

POLICE officers throughout the country are currently training in the use of the new breathalyser devices and will be out on the nation's roads with them 'soon', said Assist ant Commissioner of Police Wayne Richards.