Today on NOW: The Sandals withdrawal in Tobago has disappointed stakeholders like Martin George and Chris James. Both men gave their views on the Morning Show today. ...
Continue readingFORMER contract teacher Farley Augustine is calling on Secretary for Education, Innovation and Energy, Kelvin Charles to “end victimisation season” and pay all gratuities owed immediately. This comes after Friday’s ruling by Justice David Harris in the High Court ordering the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) to immediately pay contract teachers all outstanding payments, plus interest. Augustine, one of the litigants and currently serving as a Minority Assemblyman, said he felt really excited that justice will finally be served. “I feel like the next step will be for the THA is to pay me for the period of my contract ending 2018. “Hopefully, the...
Continue readingAttorney Martin George is calling on THA Chief Secretary Kelvin Charles to remove himself as Secretary of Education. This comes on the heels of a decision delivered in the High Court on Friday by Justice David Harris ordering the THA to immediately pay contract teachers all outstanding payments, plus interest. The teachers throughout Tobago won a constitutional motion which they filed against the THA for their rights to all gratuity payments and money owed to them. They claimed for a declaration of inequality of treatment. The teachers said the THA had treated them unequally, compared to the permanent teachers in Tobago, and also...
Continue reading“It was always the intention of the THA to pay outstanding gratuities and, as a consequence, the teachers will receive the monies due and owing to them.” This is the promise made by Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary and Secretary for Education, Innovation and Energy, Kelvin Charles, as he responded to questions posed by Newsday after last Friday’s High Court ruling by Justice David Harris. The judge ordered the THA to immediately pay contract teachers all outstanding payments, plus interest. The Tobago teachers, represented by Martin George and Company, won a constitutional motion which they filed in 2017 against the...
Continue readingAttorney at Law Martin George is calling for THA chief secretary and secretary for Education Kelvin Charles to fire himself after a judgement was handed down last Friday, demanding that the THA pay outstanding monies and gratuities owed to all contract teachers on the island. Speaking at a news conference held at his Bacolet office on Monday, George said, it was determined that the THA treated the 14 teachers unequally compared to the permanent teachers on the island, as well as contract teachers in Trinidad; by paying them less and not allowing them the same amount of leave, vacation, benefits, and...
Continue readingA victory for contract teachers in Tobago. The High Court has ordered that the THA pay all gratuities owed to them, immediately. The judgement was handed down, on Friday. Elizabeth Williams has more in this report. View Video here Text Transcript for Video: The case brought by a representative group of 14 contract teachers, from all across Tobago, was filled by their attorney Martin George & Co. as a constitutional motion against the THA and their attorney general. The teachers sort a declaration of inequality of treatment under the constitution. Justice David Harris in his judgment refused to grant the declaration of inequality of treatment and...
Continue readingHIGH COURT ORDERS THA TO IMMEDIATELY PAY TOBAGO CONTRACT TEACHERS ALL GRATUITY & ALL OUTSTANDING PAYMENTS PLUS INTEREST In a decision delivered in the High Court today, Contract Teachers throughout Tobago won a Constitutional Motion filed against the Tobago House of Assembly for their rights to all Gratuity payments and all monies outstanding and due and owing to them. The case brought by a representative group of 14 Contract Teachers from all across Tobago, was filed by their Attorneys at Law MARTIN GEORGE & CO as a Constitutional Motion against the THA & Attorney General. The Teachers claimed for a Declaration of...
Continue readingKajala v Noble (1982) 75 Cr App Rep 149 Court: CA Judgment Date: circa 1982 Catchwords & Digest EVIDENCE - GENERAL PRINCIPLES - NECESSITY FOR BEST EVIDENCE - AS TO FACTS - BEST EVIDENCE -- VIDEO RECORDING -- COPY OF ORIGINAL -- ADMISSIBILITY The defendant was convicted of an offence contrary to the Public Order Act 1936, s 5, committed during a serious disturbance. He had been identified by a prosecution witness, who had recognized him on a BBC news programme concerning the incident. As it was BBC policy not to allow originals of their firms to leave the premises, the prosecution had relied upon a...
Continue readingNeutral Citation Number: [2010] EWCA Crim 123 Case No: 200804169B1 COURT OF APPEAL (CRIMINAL DIVISION) ON APPEAL FROM LINCOLN CROWN COURT HIS HONOUR JUDGE HEATH Royal Courts of Justice Strand, London, WC2A 2LL Date: 09/02/2010 Before : LORD JUSTICE PILL MR JUSTICE BENNETT and MR JUSTICE FIELD - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Between : James Daniel Curtis Defendant - and - Regina Prosecution - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mr...
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