OWTU ready to rumble
“Get ready to rumble.”This was the signal by Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) president general Ancel Roget as he led hundreds of Petrotrin workers on a historic three-day protest march to save...
View ArticleState seeks to join OWTU injunction
The Government is attempting to intervene in the Oilfield Workers' Trade Union's application for an injunction stopping Petrotrin from starting the process of terminating workers. Lawyers for the State...
View ArticleStates tries to intervene in Petrotrin case
Derek AchongGovernment is attempting to intervene in the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU)'s application for an injunction to stop Petrotrin from terminating workers. Lawyers for the State signalled...
View ArticleToco Sec PTA wants action on closed school
Students of the Toco Secondary School are still at home after the school was closed three week ago due to damage sustained by the 6.9 magnitude earthquake in August. The damage, added to the...
View ArticleCops probe St James Infirmary brawl
Senior police officers from the Western Division have launched an investigation into a major brawl that broke out earlier tonight at the Accident and Emergency Department of the St James...
View ArticleUNC joins union protest march today
From courtroom to highway today.After the Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) filed Industrial Court action yesterday to block Petrotrin’s termination of workers, the union hits the road today on a...
View ArticleOWTU seeks to block Petrotrin firings
While Government has begun processing a $2.6 billion retrenchment payout to 3,400 Petrotrin refinery workers the Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU), in a surprise move yesterday, filed an application...
View ArticlePCA to probe police
The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) has launched an investigation into a fracas which occurred outside of the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court involving at least four police officers and two women.A...
View ArticleGas hike hits fishermen hard
Faced with a $1 increase per litre in the price of Super unleaded fuel, fishermen from South Trinidad are calling on the Government to establish an outlet so they can purchase regular fuel at a cheaper...
View ArticleWilliamsville residents
Residents of Garth Road, Williamsville want some of the $883 million allocated for the upgrade and expansion of road and bridges to be spent in their community.They pleaded with Works and Transport...
View ArticleImbert: No new taxes before 2020
Citizens have been assured by Finance Minister Colm Imbert that there will be no further increases on any taxes in the next two years.This as Imbert says Government is doing all it can to ensure...
View ArticleStudents suspended after bloody brawl
Two female students of the Union Claxton Bay Secondary School who were involved in a bloody bottle-pelting brawl in Claxton Bay on Monday have been suspended.This was confirmed by an official from the...
View ArticleChucky Sings De Chorus
Two-time National Calypso Monarch, Roderick “Chucky” Gordon is back on stage this week, not as a seasoned performer he has become but as a young calypsonian from Siparia trying to break into the...
View ArticleNishal accepts plea deal, to be deported - report
Nishal Sankat, the Trinidad and Tobago national who has been charged with trying to steal a plane at the Melbourne Airport in Florida, is coming home.A report by Fox 35 News in the United States says...
View ArticleCoP, West welcome body and dashboard cams
The introduction of body and dashboard cameras for all police officers is expected to have a direct impact on the fight against crime. Speaking with the T&T Guardian after Finance Minister Colm...
View ArticleKhan willing to talk to Petroleum dealers
Energy Minister Franklin Khan has committed to meeting with petroleum dealers who have complained the money they earn from fuel sold at the pump has virtually been wiped out by the one-dollar increase...
View Article$1 Super gas
Energy Minister Franklin Khan says he does not expect motorists to riot over the immediate $1 per litre increase on super at the pumps.“I don’t think so. I think it was very well explained,” Khan told...
View ArticleKamla: No one feels any turnaround
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is not convinced enough evidence was presented in the budget to indicate a turnaround in the economy. In an immediate response yesterday, Persad-Bissessar said...
View ArticlePM pleased with Colm’s
Exciting!That’s how Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday described his feelings about the 2019 budget delivered by Finance Minister Colm Imbert.“To be able to present a budget like this …30 months...
View ArticleImbert unveils $51b turnaround package
Motorists using Super gasoline began paying $1 more immediately after Government’s 2019 Budget presentation yesterday.But offsetting that, the Dr Keith Rowley administration, after three years of stiff...
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