More than 500 sugar workers from LBI Sugar Estate today down tools and staged a protest action at the Guyana Sugar Cooperation (GUYSUCO) LBI’s head office calling on the management to look in to their plight. The agitated workers said their action came in the wake of a number of issues affecting them for a long time with no redress.
IT is time to bring legislation to protect whistleblowers, the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute (TTTI) has said. TTTI made the statement as it applauded the government’s decision to appoint a five-member team of forensic auditors to investigate several State agencies simultaneously. On Friday, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan presented the Alan Newman-chaired five-member team of forensic auditors mandated to investigate corruption is several State agencies. Ramlogan also called on members of the public to provide information on corrupt practices.
CLOSE to 200 residents of Ituni and Calcuni in the Upper Berbice River benefited from dental and general medical care when a team from the Guyana Defence Force medical corps took its outreach activities to the communities as part of the recently-concluded excercise HOMEGUARD.
Residents of Trinidad and parts of Tobago were jolted awake by an earthquake just before dawn this morning.
While the shaking rattled houses around 4.40 am, so far there have been no reports of damage or injuries.
Preliminary reports from the University of the West Indies Siesmic Research Centre said the quake was located at 11.28°N , 62.49°W. The magnitude was 5.1 and the depth was 116km. The earthquake was reported as widely felt in Trinidad and Bon Accord in Tobago thus far.
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan will introduce a team of three British
forensic auditors around this afternoon to investigate the operations at several State agencies.
The forensic auditors are Alan Newman, Martin Hall and Akbar Ali.
The trio have been commissioned by Ramlogan to investigate operations atUTT, Petrotrin, the Sport Company of Trinidad and Tobago, T&TEC, eTeck and the Scarborough Hospital.
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A father and his two children were almost buried alive following a landslide on the Lady Young Road last night.
Lloyd Guy and his children, four-year-old Isaiah and 21-month-old Kadisha were trapped inside the family’s Sport Utility Vehicle for close to two hours last night.
The trio were dug out of the vehicle around 9 p.m. last night by Fire Service officials. The children were rushed to the Port of Spain General Hospital and were said to have sustained minor injuries.
Caribbean Advance Proficiency Examination (CAPE) results have just been released.
School principals received results for the Ministry of Education this afternoon.
Students are asked to check with their schools as soon as possible.
Winston Dookeran, the political leader of the Congress of the People is set to act as Prime Minister while Kamla Persad-Bissessar is out of the country, press secretary Garvin Nicholas said today.
Persad-Bissessar is expected to leave the country today and return on Sunday. She has been invited to New York for the India Day Parade.
Colonel George Robinson says he was not hounded out of office as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM).
Robinson has signalled his intention to return to his substantive post at State-owned Petrotrin, amid criticisms levelled against the ODPM in its response to nationwide flooding.
Robinson says public criticism has adversely affected morale at the ODPM.
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