State stopped from deporting 9 V’zuelans
Wednesday 16 December 2020
A HIGH COURT judge has given protection to nine Venezuelans – four adults and five children – preventing their deportations, at least for now.
Justice Ricky Rahim on Tuesday granted applications filed on behalf of the group which, as part of a larger group of 25, returned to TT illegally on November 24.
The 25 were quarantined at the state-controlled quarantine facility at the heliport in Chaguaramas. Most of them received orders from various judges preventing their deportation during their quarantine period which ended on Tuesday.
Relatives for the children, who are in Trinidad as UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) asylum seekers or holders of the Government’s registration cards, expressed fear of the children’s fate after the quarantine period ended.
DPP takes Ramlogan, Ramdeen case straight to High Court
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DPP seeks High Court trial for ex-AG Ramlogan, ex-senator Ramdeen
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FORMER attorney general Anand Ramlogan, SC, and attorney Gerald Ramdeen will not have to go through the preliminary enquiry process on corruption-related charges stemming from an alleged legal fees kickback scheme.
Instead, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) today indicated its decision to bypass the process and have indictments filed against the attorneys directly at the High Court.
That revelation was made by senior State prosecutor Mauricia Joseph when the matters came up for hearing virtually before Chief Magistrate Maria Busby-Earle Caddle.
âLet her stayâ:Â Attorney Gerald Ramdeen
Ramlogan and Ramdeen are both accused of conspiring with Jamaican-born British Queenâs Counsel Vincent Nelson for Ramlogan to misbehave in public office during his time as attorney general under the Peopleâs Partnership administration by accepting sums of money representing a reward from Nelson for him being granted State briefs.