The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.
Former Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Sylvia Ash, 64, resigned from the bench on March 15 following her conviction for lying to federal investigators probing embezzlement at the Municipal Credit Union.
NEW YORK (CMC) – A United States federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Trinidadian-born jurist Sylvia G Ash to 15 months in prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice and makin.
Three retired Brooklyn judges and more than 20 attorneys asked for leniency for a disgraced former jurist set to be sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court for obstructing an investigation into corruption at the state’s largest credit union.
In the period between her indictment and conviction, Ash was suspended from judicial duties, but still raked in her $210,000 salary, a state courts spokesman confirmed to the Daily News.