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Chairman of the Congress of the People (COP) Joseph Toney says the party’s founding leader, Finance Minister Winston Dookeran, is “a most respected leader of T&T” and was free to meet with Prime M

State-owned T&T Electricity Commission (T&TEC) yesterday accepted the Industrial Court’s recommendation of a nine per cent salary increase for more than 2,000 employees.

Thousands of workers at the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) are facing retrenchment as the state-owned utility is to be restructured.

Television personality and Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne was last night arrested outside the Independence Square, Port-of-Spain, offices of Caribbean Communications Network (CCN).

Senior Counsel Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj says Government should reconsider its June 30 deadline for Clico policyholders to accept a bailout plan proposed by Finance Minister Winston Dookeran.

Attorneys representing embattled Tunapuna Hindu School principal Sita Gajadarsingh-Nanga yesterday said that if granted leave for judicial review, she would be willing to stay at the school.

An outpatient of St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital, St Ann’s, ran amok in Princes Town yesterday, killing an elderly male relative and stabbing a passerby before being shot by police.

An attack at a school on Wednesday evening has left a 14-year-old schoolboy with a fractured skull and wounds to his face.