- 3 April, 2025
ROWLEY HITS PS, WILLIAMS STYLE
THE slow pace of digitalisation in the public service is the main reason for the difficulty in issuing back pay by Christmas.
DISTURBING QUESTIONS ABOUT $106 M HOSPITAL PROJECT
HAS Universal Structures Ltd. (USL) failed to complete its $106 million contract for construction of shear walls at Central Block of Port of Spain General Hospital?
‘BLOODY TUESDAY’ – A GENERATION LATER
MARCH 18 is another anniversary of the most brutal assault on the local working masses in modern history. Scores of police officers – including baton-wielding new recruits – savagely attacked workers as they launched a public march for “Peace, Bread and Justice” that Tuesday 1975 morning.
ENERGY SECTOR WORKFORCE IN SHARP DECLINE
THE number of workers in Trinidad and Tobago’s energy sector is shrinking. From 19,800 employees in the last quarter of 2015, there are now 6,900, according to the most recent Labour Force Survey Bulletin of the Central Statistical Office (CSO).
Govt breaking PSA, NUGFW as
THE troubled Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) would send home some 3,000 workers over the next few months.
MORE THAN 1,000 WASA WORKERS TO GO
MORE than 1,000 workers of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) are to lose their jobs.
The timing of the planned retrenchments has not yet been decided.
Finance Minister Colm Imbert would likely hint at “staff rationalisation” during his forthcoming Budget presentation.
TRINI SEASONAL WORKERS IN CANADA RUNNING SCARED
TRINIDAD and Tobago seasonal workers are afraid of being stranded once more in Canada.
The farm workers are scared of becoming stuck again in cold communal bunk houses as a result of Covid-19.
During the 2020 winter season, hundreds of T&T and other farmers were stranded in Ontario because of international travel restrictions.
WHERE IS WATSON DUKE?
THE usually voluble Watson Duke is uncharacteristically quiet while there are two major current issues in which he would typically express himself.
The Government’s move to increase the number of electoral seats in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) directly affects Duke as Minority Leader of the assembly and as head of Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP).
NIKKI CROSBY AND THE BIG EXODUS
Migration statistics are not easily available, but word from a variety of sources confirms the major trend.
A flight of capital and a brain drain result from mass migrations.
In announcing her imminent departure from Trinidad and Tobago, Crosby groused that “nothing is happening and I feel stifled right now.”
She stressed her love for T&T.
LABOUR HAS NOTHING TO CELEBRATE!
THE labour “movement” reminds me of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
“Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”