Six­teen Nestlé Trinidad and To­ba­go work­ers have been re­trenched while an­oth­er 30 have ac­cept­ed vol­un­tary sep­a­ra­tion pack­ages as the multi­na­tion­al food com­pa­ny moves ahead with re­struc­tur­ing its lo­cal dis­tri­b­u­tion op­er­a­tions.

Re­cip­i­ents of the Se­nior Cit­i­zens’ Pen­sion, Dis­abil­i­ty As­sis­tance and Pub­lic As­sis­tance grants will con­tin­ue to be paid as the Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices works to clear back­logs and ad­dress in­ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion that has caused mil­lions of dol­lars in wastage.

The Prison Ser­vice paid $773.6 mil­lion in over­time be­tween 2016 and 2026, while a fur­ther $148 mil­lion was re­port­ed out­stand­ing to prison of­fi­cers.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says a whistle­blow­er com­plaint with­in the or­gan­i­sa­tion trig­gered the foren­sic in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to wa­ter truck­ing con­trac­tor Flex­i­ble En­ter­pris­es Lim­it­ed (FEL), and not any oth­er in­ter­ven­tion.

The Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) is prepar­ing to take the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) to the In­dus­tri­al Court over the ter­mi­na­tion of 124 dai­ly-paid work­ers, which it says was un­law­ful and breached good in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions prac­tices.

A build­ing ma­te­r­i­al sup­ply com­pa­ny has scored a sec­ond vic­to­ry in a le­gal bat­tle against a for­mer cus­tomer over al­most $1 mil­lion in ar­rears on goods it sup­plied over a decade ago. 

Char­tered sur­vey­or and for­mer pres­i­dent of the Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil for the Con­struc­tion In­dus­try, Afra Ray­mond has warned that re­cent amend­ments to the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026, have placed the coun­try on the precipice of con­fu­sion and cor­rup­tion.

“Hard work does not kill” has been Theophilus George’s mot­to through­out his life, and yes­ter­day the To­ba­go cen­te­nar­i­an cel­e­brat­ed 100 years sur­round­ed by the fam­i­ly he worked tire­less­ly to pro­vide for.

An im­mi­gra­tion con­sul­tant from Aranguez who was ac­quit­ted of two charges of al­leged­ly steal­ing $77,000 from a client seek­ing help with work per­mits has lost her ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion law­suit.

Bur­nett was charged with manslaugh­ter on Ju­ly 27 in con­nec­tion with the death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie on April 8. He is al­leged to have been rid­ing a jet ski that struck An­gel­i­ca and oth­er rel­a­tives in the bathing zone at Pi­geon Point beach.

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning was eject­ed from Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a heat­ed con­fronta­tion with House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh over his at­tempts to ques­tion a re­duc­tion in fund­ing for the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion.

The Op­po­si­tion ap­peared to de­liv­er a de­lib­er­ate snub to Sport and Youth Af­fairs Min­is­ter Phillip Watts yes­ter­day, re­fus­ing to ask a sin­gle ques­tion about his min­istry’s $486.4 mil­lion al­lo­ca­tion dur­ing the Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee stage of the 2027 Bud­get de­bate.