Trinidad & Tobago News

Republic Workers Union President General Jason Thomas, centre, with members at the launch at St Augustine South Community Centre, Freeman Road, yesterday.KERWIN PIERRE
Republic Workers Union President General Jason Thomas, centre, with members at the launch at St Augustine South Community Centre, Freeman Road, yesterday.KERWIN PIERRE

Republic Bank workers in Trinidad form union

(Trinidad Guardian) Likening themselves as a phoenix, supposedly rising out of the ashes of the Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU), the Republic Workers Union (RWU) officially launched yesterday.

Stuart Young

Trinidad union accused of submitting fake document in Petrotrin bid

(Trinidad Guardian) In a shocking revelation in Parliament yesterday, Energy Minister Stuart Young claimed the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union’s (OWTU) Patriotic Energies Company Limited failed to make the next round of bidding on the mothballed Petrotrin refinery because it lied about its financial standing by submitting a fake document to the evaluation committee tasked with receiving proposals.

India, Trinidad  sign digital payment platform deal

(Trinidad Guardian) The National Payments Corporation of India’s (NPCI) International Payments Limited (NIPL) has signed a bilateral agreement with the Ministry of Digital Transformation (MDT) to develop a real-time and efficient payments platform similar to India’s flagship Unified Payments Interface (UPI).

The scene of the shooting

Trinidad: Two cousins shot dead outside pre-school

(Trinidad Guardian) The murder toll continued to climb yesterday, following the shooting deaths of two cousins and the wounding of three others, including a four-year-old child, during an attack linked to gang warfare enveloping the Malick community.

Warning of five-day hot spell for T&T

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has been placed under a “Hot Spell Watch #1—Yellow Level” warning for the next five days as daily temperatures are expected to reach or exceed 34°C.

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