On Monday March 26th, Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) had their request for judicial review on the authorisation of a Certificate of Environmental Clearance (CEC) issued by the Environmental Management Authority (EMA) dismissed by the Trinidad & Tobago Court of Appeals. Once again the Aripo Savannas a designated Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) is under […]
Aripo Savannah & The Roosevelt Highway To Manzanilla
Recently there’s been a lot of talk about the Aripo Savannah & The Roosevelt Highway To Manzanilla. The project isn’t something new, it’s been a part of the National Highways Program since 1997. A quick search on the ttparliment.org brought up a document containing a house debate in 2004. Franklin Khan who was The Minister […]
What you say online might be defamation
It might be is against the law in Trinidad & Tobago to post statements online, such as Facebook and Twitter, whereas such statements are considered libel or defamation. Section 8 of Trinidad & Tobago’s Libel and Defamation Act states: “If any person maliciously publishes any defamatory libel, knowing the same to be false, he is liable on […]