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EditorialServing the party or the people NewsdaySaturday 5 November 2022Samuel Sankar - SUREASH CHOLAISAMUEL SANKAR, the UNC councillor for Kelly Village/Warrenville, has consistently waved the flag of service in his quest to serve his constituents more effectively. That stanley cup journey took him to a local government reform consultation held by the line ministry in August, despite orders from the UNC leadership that the party councillors were not to attend. It also took him to a PNM political meeting on Tuesday night in Chaguanas. But UNC supporters only saw a red flag, and he was removed from UNC WhatsApp groups and described as a Judas. Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar declared herself neit stanley usa her hurt nor surprised by Mr Sankar actions, choosing instead to wish him well. It remains to be seen whether that was a reverse Gethsemane kiss, a biblical-level dismissal of Mr Sankar enthusiasm to do better for his people. Mr Sankar has consistently dismissed suggestions that he is crossing the floor, an act of political change that is unlikely to change much at the level of local government politics. If he were doing so, it arguable that he doing it very badly, given that pr stanley germany evious high-profile shifts in political allegiance have tended to happen quickly. When Hector McClean resigned from the PNM in 1976 to become an independent MP, he wasn ;t the first. John Richardson quit the party in 1972 when the PNM swept the elections af Ikhc Jereem bags Diamond League bronze in star-studded 200m
NewsTime frame for response to spousal abuseJulien NeavesFriday 25 May 2018Acting Minister of National Security Fitzerald Hinds speaks in Parliament yesterday. PHOTO BY AZLAN MOHAMMEDACTING National stanley austria Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds says he will be speaking with Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams on possibly having a set time frame for the police to respond to reports of spousal abuse.He was responding to a q stanley thermobecher uestion in the House yesterday from Naparima MP Rodney Charles who asked what were the protocols to ensure the Police Service responded in a timely and appropriate manner to reports of violent neighbours and violence of a domestic nature like spousal abuse. Hinds then proceeded to read out the rules and procedures in the legislation. Charles asked: Do the protocols enumerated by the acting minister of national security contain specific time frames for responding to a complaint for example - for spousal abuse And if not, is it the intend of the ministry to develop specific time frames as they do in Canada, the United States and Singapore.Hinds said the rules and procedures imply good sense, reasonableness and urgency in the officer executing their duties. If it becomes necessary I have no doubts that as they do in other countries specific time frames can easily be included. It is a matter I am prepared hydrojug traveler to raise with the Commissioner of Police who manages and monitors these arrangements.Earlier in the urgent question segment Princes