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Tobago discount store owner starts legal action against police

The owner of a popular wholesale and discount store in Tobago has written to National Security Minister Stuart Young over being threatened by police to close his business under ongoing COVID-19 regulations. Lawyers representing Phillip Almandoz, the managing director of Miles Almandoz and Company Limited, of Wilson Road in Scarborough, made the complaint in a pre-action protocol letter sent to Young, earlier this morning. "We are writing to you as line Minister with authority over the TTPS so that they may cease and desist from their planned quixotic pursuit of this intention to close down our client's business," attorney Martin George said...

27 March

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Man wrongfully arrested 3 times for child support

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A TOBAGO man has initiated legal action against the State for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and breach of his rights. The man was arrested three times by police on alleged outstanding maintenance orders when there were none against him. Attorneys Martin George and Janelle Ramsaroop on Wednesday issued a pre-action protocol letter to the Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi on behalf of Curtis Carrington. Carrington is the father of one child who turned 21 in March. The periods for which it is alleged he owed were long after his child turned 18. The letter said around 2011, his ex-wife took him to court for maintenance...

10 March

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Judge warns of crisis in health sector because of Nursing Council impasse

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A HIGH COURT judge has warned that the health care sector could find itself in crisis mode if decisions taken by the Nursing Council between April to early October 2019 are not ratified. Justice Frank Seepersad has also urged that elections for the council’s executive be held as a matter of urgency.” In a decision on Monday, Seepersad voided all the decisions made by the council from April 19 to early October 2019, saying they were invalid since the council did not have the power to hold over in office after the expiration of its term. The council’s three-year term ended on April...

10 March

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Nursing Council decisions declared invalid

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Derek Achong All decisions made by the Nursing Council of T&T since the end its members’ term last April have been invalidated. This was the outcome of a lawsuit over the management of the organisation, brought by former president David Murphy after he was ousted in August, last year. In a 22-page judgement delivered at the Hall of Justice in Port-of-Spain yesterday morning, High Court Judge Frank Seepersad ruled that there was no provision under the Nursing Personnel Act, which established the council and dictates functions to extend the powers of its members past their three-year term. As a result, Seepersad ruled that any...

06 March

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Permission to challenge Deyalsingh

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Over 3,000 nurses have been granted leave to challenge the Health Minister’s decision to appoint selected members to the Nursing Council before any elected members were appointed. They were also granted permission to seek declarations that the decision of the minister to appoint David Murphy as a member of the council. The nurses were given permission to challenge the minister by Justice Devindra Rampersad. They are seeking several declarations which also ask the court to find that the minister’s decision to allow his six selected members to elect a president of the council and an executive when there are no other...

26 February

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LES COTEAUX MAN DENIED BAIL…

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LES COTEAUX MAN DENIED BAIL IN CARIBBEAN JEWELLERS ROBBERY A 26-year-old man of Les Coteaux, Tobago, appeared in the Scarborough Magistrates Court on Friday, charged with the robbery of Caribbean Jewellers Lowlands Branch. The incident allegedly occurred Monday around 12 pm. Alveion Nurse aka "Crime Boss," of Providence Road, stood before Magistrate Dwayne Murray in the Scarborough First Court, charged with three counts of robbery with aggravation. The court heard that Nurse allegedly robbed four employees of Caribbean Jewellers located inside the Lowlands Mall at gunpoint, making away with $1,244,164 worth of jewelry—17 gold 10k bangles valued $107,800; nine gold 10k jingles valued...

27 January

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New PNM Tobago leader brings dynamism

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Tobago Business Chamber: New PNM Tobago leader brings dynamism President of the Tobago Business Chamber, Martin George, has congratulated Tracy Davidson-Celestine on her victory, in Sunday’s run-off election for the post of Political Leader, of the People's National Movement's (PNM) Council in Tobago. Martin George is calling for a continued working relationship between her and current Chief Secretary of Tobago House of Assembly, Kelvin Charles, whom Davidson-Celestine ousted in the leadership contest, yesterday. “Moving forward, the Tobago Business Chamber is willing to work with both Ms. Davidson-Celestine in her role as leader of the PNM Tobago Council; and Mr. Charles, as the continuing...

16 January

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Augustine to Charles: End victimisation

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FORMER 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...

16 January

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Tobago teachers win in court, George declares: Kelvin must fire Kelvin

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Attorney 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...

15 January

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THA won’t appeal contract teachers ruling

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“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...