West Indian Tobacco and SWWTU complete wage deal for 2020-2022
The West Indian Tobacco Company Limited has completed its negotiations with the Seamen and Waterfront Workers’ Trade Union (SWWTU) for the period 2020 to 2022 and has finalized the Collective Bargaining Agreements for both hourly rated workers and monthly paid staff.
Yachties beg Govt to open the sector
The Yacht Services Association of TT (YSATT) is pleading with Government to allow for international yacht arrivals in order to save workers’...
NGC gets downgraded from rating agency
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The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) has been downgraded by Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Limited (CariCRIS).
CariCris lowered the...
Rock Hard, Trade Ministry seek compromise, pending court ruling
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Lawyers representing St Lucia-based Rock Hard Distribution Limited, its local distributor and the Ministry of Trade and Industry were yesterday locked in discussions...
Methanex to send home 60 workers
This year has started the same way 2020 begun with the severing of workers in the downstream petrochemical sector as the State-owned National...
New SWMCOL board appointed
The newly appointed Board of the Solid Waste Management Company Limited (SWMCOL) has been issued the challenge of transforming the ways in which the country disposes of its waste by placing greater emphasis on recycling programmes, among other things.
The Cupid of the Caribbean: Stewart’s legacy woven into Jamaica’s story
Gordon Arthur Cyril Stewart, better known as Butch Stewart, dropped out of school at age 16 and was deemed the “most unlikely to succeed.”
Looking...
Butch takes his leave
Perhaps the greatest debt of gratitude that the Caribbean has to the late great Gordon Butch Stewart is the confidence that he has...
Judge hears Rock Hard Cement’s injunction request today
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An application for an injunction seeking to block Government’s move to introduce a quota on imported cement and a proposal to increase the import...
ATTIC warns of trouble brewing in local insurance market
International reinsurers are threatening to fully withdraw from the T&T insurance market, the Association of Trinidad and Tobago Insurance Companies (ATTIC) has warned.
ATTIC said...