Happy New Year AZPNews.com readers! It’s my first article for 2021, and many thanks for having me back! As a legal practitioner, I have a pet peeve for laws that just doesn’t sit right. With that in mind, I thought I’d have a closer look at the new front windshield tint restrictions. Quickly recapping my […]
THIS week’s tomfoolery is bought to you by Dr Fuad Khan, former minister of health, Trump enthusiast and one of the few people on earth who believes a mullet is a good look. Unfortunately last weekend our Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley, had some cardiac issues and was rushed to Westshore Private Medical Hospital. […]Read More
By Ravi Nanga LAST week we examined the concept of the case management conference. The start of the case management conference signals that the judge that will hear and determine the matter commences managing the matter towards the final determination. At a case management conference, the powers of the judge are very wide and these […]Read More
Ambassador Mondello Op-Ed: US Don’t See Eye-to-Eye With T&T on
Bellow is an Op-ed piece done by US Ambassador to the United States Joseph Mondello. The appointee of the Trump administration says farewell to T&T. Serving as United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago has been the greatest honour of my life. Apart from its great weather and amazing beauty, T&T has some of the […]Read More
ON Wednesday January 6, 2021, Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro gathered his communications team and prepared to write a statement he had been dreaming about for years. Maduro, like all of us, watched a country that often boasted of its greatness slide into chaos. The land of the free was suffering from a public healthcare crisis, […]Read More
By Ravi Nanga THIS week we will continue to explore the course of a matter once it is filed in court. In the last article we looked at the issue of filing a reply to a defendant’s defence. The reply can either be filed with the defendant’s consent or with the permission of the court […]Read More
ANOTHER set of motor vehicle regulations with eyebrow raising fines has been made into law, with a 3-month moratorium on implementation commencing December 7, 2020. At the end of that moratorium, owners, drivers and operators of motor vehicles can be fined $5,000 per offence for breach of new tint regulations with specific percentages for the […]Read More
GUESS what small pox, measles, and polio all have in common? They are all diseases that if you caught in the earlier parts of the 20th Century would leave you either dead or disabled. They are all diseases that thanks to science, we can now be vaccinated against. They are all diseases that were once […]Read More
By Ravi Nanga OVER the past two weeks we looked at what is required when filing a Claim Form and Statement of Case and an Appearance and Defence. Once a defence is filed, the court fixes a date for a case management conference, which will be the first time the matter will come up […]Read More
WHILE it’s a hot topic right now, I’m not sure everyone truly understands the dangers of PH cars in this country. By now, we all know of the heightened risk women face daily if they enter a PH car: they are sometimes harassed, robbed, assaulted and even worse. But there is more the average person […]Read More