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TTT Live Online – The Sandals withdrawal in Tobago has disappointed stakeholders
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. ...
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THA won’t appeal contract teachers ruling
“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...
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COURT RULES IN FAVOUR OF CONTRACT TEACHERS
A 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...
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Sweet talk from Kamla? Chamber wants more details on Tobago plan
THE Tobago Business Chamber has expressed mixed views about Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar's plan for Tobago if the United National Congress returns to government after next year's general election. "The Tobago Business Chamber is always open and receptive to ideas and plans for the development and improvement of business and business persons in Tobago and in that regard, some of the initiatives proposed by the Opposition Leader for Tobago, in her budget response, appear attractive while others appear to be broad blandishments on sound-bites and well-worn talking points with no real details or substance, amplified to elaborate on the operationalisation of...
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George: Make Tobago VAT free
The Tobago Business Chamber is calling for the removal of Value Added Tax (VAT) from goods on the island. “If the 12.5 per cent VAT is removed it will encourage greater investment in Tobago. Persons will come and set up businesses or come to retire,” Chamber head Martin George said in an audio response to the 2019/2020 Budget. George, who had mixed reviews to the budgetary measures announced by Finance Minister Colm Imbert on Monday, applauded the increase in wages for CEPEP and URP workers but criticised the lack of action on the Foreign Investment Act which restricts the acreages of land,...
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TOBAGO BUSINESS CHAMBER and its Chairman Martin George teamed up with the Indian High Commission
TOBAGO BUSINESS CHAMBER and its Chairman Martin George teamed up last week with the Indian High Commission, bringing together a team of high powered Tobago Business persons to discuss and brainstorm business ideas and economic solutions for Tobago. Indian High Commissioner Ambassador Sahu and his entourage flew over to Tobago and shared dinner, good conversation and business ideas with Business Executives from Pennysaver's Supermarket, Martineau Construction and Transport, Buccoo Town Centre & Atlantic on the Edge Townhouse Development, Singh's Hardware and Construction and a representative from the Education sector in Tobago. Emerging from the discussions the High Commission expressed interest in setting...
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Nursing Council to get lawful quorum
The operations of the Nursing Council of T&T are set to resume, later this week. During a hearing of a lawsuit brought by ousted council president David Murphy at the Hall of Justice in Port-of-Spain, yesterday morning, a representative of the Ministry of Health informed High Court Judge Frank Seepersad that six members of the council are expected to be appointed by Wednesday. The official stated that Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh had received Cabinet approval for the appointments and was in the process of sending letters to the appointees. The move, which was encouraged by Seepersad during a previous hearing, last month, will...
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George: Tobago’s slice will only pay wages and bills
TOBAGO'S $2.23b slice of the $53b national budget will be enough to only pay wages and bills according to Martin George, interim chairman of the Tobago Business Chamber. Speaking hours after Finance Minister Imbert delivered his fifth budget on Monday, George told Newsday that after the THA uses 90 per cent of the allocation for recurrent expenditure, Tobago will not have enough money for critical development in the next fiscal year. "So what will there be for capital expenditure, infrastructural development and investment in building up the business capacity of Tobago," George asked. "We would have hoped there was a greater emphasis...
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