- 1 April, 2025
ONLY A FOOL BREAKS HIS OWN HEART
Ancel Roget, whose Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) is considered the most powerful labour body in the land, announced that the working class was pitching its electoral support to the UNC.
WHAT IS LABOUR CELEBRATING?
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley says there is no poverty in the land because a reggae concert was sold out.
GOVT SET UP OWTU AGAIN
THE Government is playing the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) for the third time on the purchase of Petrotrin.
The Government is in an advanced stage of negotiations with a foreign-owned energy corporation to take over the Pointe-a-Pierre operations that have been mothballed since November 2018.
REGGIE DUMAS FOUGHT IN VAIN
EVEN in his last days, patriot Reginald Dumas was fighting for good governance.
Dumas was challenging the planned removal of the system of service commissions and had gone to court over the composition of the Police Service Commission.
INDUSTRIAL COURT PRESIDENT SACKED OVER 9 % FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS?
DEBORAH Thomas-Felix may have lost her job as President of the Industrial Court over the salary deal for public officers.
The respected Ms. Thomas-Felix was recently replaced, becoming the first eligible Industrial Court President not to be reappointed.
NEWMAN, OLD PROBLEM
The startling report of the Jerome Lynch Committee accuses Paria’s top brass of “gross negligence” and “criminal” action, but Chairman Newman George and his merry band are still in office.
LABOUR’S CURIOUS SILENCE
AT the time of writing, the labour sector had not issued a commentary on the passing of Basdeo Panday, one of the country’s longest-serving and transformative trade union leaders.
SCANDALOUS REMOVAL OF INDUSTRIAL COURT PRESIDENT
LABOUR relations have lost a jurist of competence and fairplay with the shock removal of Deborah Thomas-Felix as President of the Industrial Court.
In her 12-year stint at the labour court, Ms. Thomas-Felix distinguished herself with her aptitude, objectivity and audacity.
More job losses as
THE Government is shutting down three State enterprises within the next few weeks, throwing scores of workers on the breadline.
