A trade union vet­er­an and an econ­o­mist are among five new judges ap­point­ed to serve on the In­dus­tri­al Court.

The Court is­sued an of­fi­cial state­ment not­ing that the five new In­dus­tri­al Court Mem­bers were ap­point­ed by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo. 

To­geth­er, they bring decades of ex­pe­ri­ence in Law, In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions, and Hu­man Re­source Man­age­ment.

They are: Their Ho­n­ours Mr. Pe­ter Ramkissoon, Mr. Glenn Wil­son, Mr. Mario Als, Ms. Stephanie Fin­gal, all of whom pre­side in the Gen­er­al Ser­vices Di­vi­sion, and Her Ho­n­our Mrs. Caron Lon­don, who pre­sides in the Es­sen­tial Ser­vices Di­vi­sion.

Ac­cord­ing to the of­fi­cial re­lease by the In­dus­tri­al Court, His Ho­n­our Mr. Pe­ter Ramkissoon is an ex­pe­ri­enced At­tor­ney-at-law with a 14-year ca­reer in the pub­lic sec­tor. He has held var­i­ous roles, in­clud­ing Se­nior Le­gal Of­fi­cer at the Of­fice of the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer, Per­son­nel De­part­ment; Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Le­gal and Cor­po­rate Af­fairs at the East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty and State Coun­sel II at the Min­istry of Health. He is a part-time lec­tur­er at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, teach­ing the le­gal as­pects of the Mas­ter of Pub­lic Health Pro­gramme.

His Ho­n­our Mr. Glenn Wil­son has over 38 years of ex­pe­ri­ence as a Hu­man Cap­i­tal prac­ti­tion­er. He has held a num­ber of cor­po­rate Hu­man Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment roles, in­clud­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Gov­ern­ment Hu­man Re­source Ser­vices Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (GHRS); Vice Pres­i­dent and Head of HR, BG Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (BGTT). He al­so served as HR Man­ag­er at var­i­ous or­ga­ni­za­tions in­clud­ing CARI­COM Sec­re­tari­at, Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP), School Nu­tri­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SNCL) and As­sis­tant Man­ag­er Com­pen­sa­tion, Iron and Steel Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (IS­COTT). He is the found­ing Vice Pres­i­dent and a for­mer Pres­i­dent of the Hu­man Re­source Man­age­ment As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (HRMATT).

His Ho­n­our Mr. Mario Als is an In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions vet­er­an with over forty-five (45) years of ex­pe­ri­ence in the field. He has served as the Deputy Pres­i­dent and Pres­i­dent of the Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union; First Vice Pres­i­dent and Ex­ec­u­tive Mem­ber of the Bank and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union; and As­sis­tant Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC). He is al­so a past mem­ber of the Board of Di­rec­tors of the Na­tion­al Train­ing Agency and the Caribbean In­dus­tri­al Re­search In­sti­tute (CARIRI). He is a for­mer mem­ber of the Na­tion­al Tri­par­tite Ad­vi­so­ry Coun­cil.

Her Ho­n­our Ms. Stephanie Fin­gal is a ca­reer Hu­man Re­sources and In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions prac­ti­tion­er with over three decades of ex­pe­ri­ence. She has held var­i­ous man­age­ment po­si­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go's pri­vate and state sec­tors in­clud­ing Di­rec­tor of In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions for a re­gion­al com­mer­cial bank, and in more re­cent years, In­ter­im Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) and In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions Con­sul­tant at the Em­ploy­ers’ Con­sul­ta­tive As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go. She has al­so been Vice Chair­man of the Min­i­mum Wages Board and sat as the Caribbean fo­cal point for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean Erad­i­ca­tion and Pre­ven­tion of Child Labour Ini­tia­tive on be­half of the In­ter­na­tion­al Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Em­ploy­ers (IOE).

Her Ho­n­our Mrs. Caron Lon­don is an Econ­o­mist with ex­pe­ri­ence in both the pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tors. Pri­or to her ap­point­ment as Mem­ber of the In­dus­tri­al Court, she spent twen­ty-two (22) years work­ing as a Sta­tis­ti­cian for the Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) spe­cial­is­ing in the com­pu­ta­tion of macro­eco­nom­ic in­di­ca­tors. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, her ca­reer has in­clud­ed work as a con­sul­tant for the In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Or­ga­ni­za­tion, as well as a tu­tor­ing role at the St. Mary's Chil­dren's Home.