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Drop all trade union cases too
Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancil Roget is challenging the Government to immediately discontinue pending court matters against trade unions just as they did for former...
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AG dismisses criticisms over Jones
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi is dismissing criticisms by some over the State’s decision to discontinue the lawsuit against former executive chairman of Petrotrin Malcolm Jones.The billion dollar case...
View ArticleSolving Tobago’s water supply problem
Tobago is presently experiencing a period of a significant decline in the supply of potable water to households and business enterprises by the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA). This situation is...
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Coast Guard recovers $777,700 worth of drugs
The T&T Coast Guard detained four men on Tuesday after they discovered $777,700 worth of narcotics during routine patrols. According to a press release this haul was discovered on two separate...
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Imbert knocked over interference
Finance Minister Colm Imbert was “out of place” to ask First Citizens bank for a report on compliance with financial obligation regulations, since the Central Bank is the local bank’s regulatory body...
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Woman found with throat slit
Southern Division police are probing the murder of a woman who was yesterday found with her throat slit at a housing construction site in San Fernando.The woman remained unidentified up to press time...
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HDC, EFCL main companies owing contractors $b debt
President of the T&T Contractors Association (TTCA) Mikey Joseph says contractors are owed between $1.5 and $1.7 billion by the Government and he has identified the Housing Development Corporation...
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Murdered prisons officer contemplated resigning
Prisons officer Fitzalbert Victor had been thinking about resigning from his job mere weeks before he was murdered, said one of his colleagues.Speaking at the funeral service for the officer at...
View ArticlePolice body demand backpay by monthend
Police officers are threatening to turn up the heat over the seven-month delay in their backpay and have given the State until the end of the month to pay the money owing.This from the leadership of...
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Pensioner perishes as fire guts home
Despite neighbours climbing a ladder and hosing a raging fire, pensioner Fyzool Mohammed suffered a cruel fate when he burned and died inside his Diamond Village home on Thursday night.Mohammed, 73,...
View ArticlePolice hunt ear biter
After a man had bitten off a piece of his landlord’s ear on Wednesday night, he reportedly dangled the bloody part in front of neighbours telling them he was going to eat it. “Ah feel I would eat it...
View ArticleSchool brawl over stolen phone
More than 30 people, including parents and students, were taken to the St Joseph Police Station following a brawl between female students of the St Joseph Secondary School outside the school...
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‘I acted in Petrotrin’s best interest’
Rosemarie SantGML ENTERPRISE DESK“I did absolutely nothing wrong. It was in the best interest of the company, Petrotrin, and the country. But if I had to, I would do it all over again.”These are the...
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Sando mayor to honour Angelo
A few months ago when Angelo Bissessarsingh’s cancer threatened to cut short his service to us here in T&T, it was unlikely that we would get a chance to journey back in time with his new book,...
View ArticleRate hike shakes up real estate
Bank and mortgage company executives are not surprised at the increase in the mortgage market reference rate (MMRR) to three per cent. They told the T&T Guardian it was to be expected given the...
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Banker tells CEOs: Diversification needed to survive
Diversification is the best way to deal with the negatively changing economic fortunes across the Caribbean, says Republic Bank executive director Roopnarine Oumade Singh.“Diversification is the only...
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Inveni gears up for trade mission to China
Inveni Business & Technology Ltd Inveni), the Caribbean’s premier China direct sourcing agency, recently hosted a breakfast seminar at the offices of the T&T Manufacturer’s Association (TTMA)’s...
View ArticleAfraid to ‘say something’
If there is one issue on which we all agree, it is that the crime level in our beloved country is unacceptable. We all recognise that the detection rate is abysmally low. In hope, we gravitate towards...
View ArticleMarket correction can decide TT$ rate
UWI economist, Dr Valmikki Arjoon, is reported as saying that the depreciation of the TT$ to TT$6.5948 to the US$ will in the short to medium term do more harm than good and this will make imports more...
View ArticleWe, part of the problem
The gross disrespect shown to women and the blatant insensitivity displayed by many towards domestic abuse is something that is unbelievably worrying. I cannot begin to express my immense...
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