Company to pay three fired workers $1m
An Industrial Court ruling against Tucker Energy Services Limited will see the company paying out just over $1 million to three former employees. The ruling was handed down yesterday by Industrial...
View ArticleArti celebrates birthday in hospital
Little orphan Arti Ramkhalawan marked her third birthday today with a cake and a visit from her maternal grandmother, Sharda Bhim, to her bedside at the San Fernando General Hospital. Arti remains...
View ArticleBaby Arti celebrates birthday
Arti Ramkhalawan celebrated her third birthday yesterday surrounded by relatives on her bed at the San Fernando Teaching Hospital.And although the child could not be treated to none of the extravagant...
View ArticleMoonilal: Stop bullying candidates, supporters
Candidate for the UNC political leadership post Dr Roodal Moonilal is calling on his opponents in the party’s internal election to stop bullying hopeful candidates and their supporters.Moonilal was...
View ArticleRambharat visits farms to decide on $831m budget
Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat is visiting farmers across the country to decide how his ministry’s $831 million budgetary allocation will be spent. The minister, who met with farmers in South...
View ArticleSando Mayor wants more ambulances from the Ministry of Health
Following the death of a man on Harris Promenade, San Fernando yesterday, the city’s mayor intends to ask the health minister for an ambulance service for the community. Mayor Kazim Hosein said this...
View ArticleWidow: Police failed to help my ailing husband
The grieving widow of the man who died on the streets outside the San Fernando General Hospital waiting on an ambulance said yesterday police officers refused to assist her husband as she begged them...
View ArticleAccident victim dies eight months later
After nursing her son back from the doorway of death, Princes Town mother Mohenee Rampersad was left heart-broken on Wednesday night when she learned of his death as she sat sewing a pillow case for...
View ArticleBargain hunters left unhappy
Despite the lure of drastically reduced prices, yesterday’s local Black Friday sales failed to draw huge crowds as was the case last year.Some customers polled complained that advertised sale prices...
View ArticleFreeport man waits in vain for ambulance
The family of a Freeport man, who was left lying on the ground for over four hours waiting for an ambulance after being knocked of a feed tank, are calling on the Ministry of Health to add more...
View ArticleWife abuser gets 16 months in jail
A Tarouba man was sent to jail yesterday for 16 months yesterday for maliciously wounding his common-law wife with a cutlass during an argument.Kadir Drickpaul, 30, of Bocus Drive, Thompson Road,...
View ArticleWorker crushed by tonne of steel
The family of a Cunupia man who died in a work-related accident yesterday is calling on witnesses to come forward and say how he really died.Ryan Maharaj, 31, of Pina Circular, Dyette Estate, Cunupia,...
View ArticleFour people arrested for drug possession
Four people, including one woman were arrested this morning as Southern Division Police carried out an anti-crime exercise. Two of the men and the woman were held when police raided a building on...
View ArticleMSJ head: Rambarran playing ‘populist’
Leader of the Movement for Social Justice David Abdulah is calling for Governor of the Central Bank Jwala Rambarran to go. Abdulah made the call at a press conference at the party’s St Joseph Village,...
View ArticleBrothers slam into pickup on M2 Ring Rd
Hansraj Roopnarine, 47, of Endeavour, Chaguanas, died on the spot yesterday when the Mitsubishi Lancer, driven by his brother, Roland Roopnarine, slammed into a pickup truck on the M2 Ring Road in...
View ArticleTwo more murders, toll reaches 396
A few footsteps away from where Roger Romaine was shot dead in May, the man accused by relatives of killing him was shot dead yesterday morning. Micheal Matthews, 57, of Fazal Avenue, Penal, was gunned...
View ArticleLet retrenched ArcelorMittal workers operate Point Lisas plant—Abdulah
Leader of the Movement for Social Justice David Abdulah is suggesting that workers who were retrenched by steel giant ArcelorMittal last week be allowed to operate the manufacturing plant in Point...
View ArticleAccident survivor wants repairs to M2 Ring Road
Roland Roopnarine, the Barrackpore man who was driving along M2 Ring Road on Sunday when he lost control of his car and crashed into a van, does not know his brother died in the crash.Roland’s brother,...
View ArticleProtest looms over late back pay: Union boss warns of wage freeze
“Keep your mind on your money and your money on your mind.” This was the advice given to unionised employees of the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) by Public Service Association president,...
View ArticleNo pay yet for 2,275 reforestation workers
While Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat took to social media on Tuesday to assure National Reforestation workers they would be paid by 2 pm yesterday, there was no money in the bank for employees...
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