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SWRHA to pay- Welder dies after wrong diagnosis
“THE South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) was yesterday found liable for damages following a lawsuit for medical negligence filed after a welder died from a flesh-eating bacterium…” Read more

Members club sues BIR over gaming tax
“A members club has sued the Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) over its failure to provide reasons for rejecting its objection to having to pay gaming tax for six months before it opened in 2014…” Read more

NiQuan has been ordered to pay its former vice president $21m
“NiQuan has been ordered to pay its former vice president—former independent senator David Small—$20,647,017 million for breach of contract for monies owed to him during his employment…” Read more

Social activist challenges Griffith’s acting appointment as CoP in court
“EVEN as acting Police Commissioner Gary Griffith challenges the Police Service Commission (PSC) to suspend him from resuming duty, one citizen is challenging his acting appointment as top cop…” Read more

State to pay 2 women for illegal quarantine
“THE State now has to fork out more than $.2 million to pay two women who were under State-supervised quarantine in 2020, having been suspected of contracting Covid-19 but turned out to be negative…” Read more

7 Families Join Together to sue State after babies die at POS Hospital
“Seven families whose babies died of neonatal sepsis over four days at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Port-of-Spain General Hospital (P0SGH) have joined together to file a class action lawsuit…” Read more

Muslim prison officers win $$ in beard rights case
“TWO Muslim prison officers, who successfully challenged a prison service regulation that required them to be clean-shaven, have been awarded significant damages in their constitutional claims…” Read more

Judge orders release of woman who failed to pay fines
“A San Fernando woman who was jailed for almost eight months for failing to pay close to $.1 million in fines has been freed by a High Court judge…” Read more

Egg on Govt’s face
“The Vincent Nelson debacle that has now exploded in the Government’s face demands nothing less than a thorough investigation into the Rowley administration’s involvement with the disgraced attorney,…” Read more

Talk-show host, radio station appeal Potts defamation ruling
“POPULAR sports talk-show host Andre E Baptiste and Gem Radio – the owner of radio station I95.5 FM – have appealed a judge’s ruling that they defamed boxing promoter Boxu Potts in a series of broadcasts from 2012-2014…” Read more

Big Money Compensation for Hijab WPC
“SPECIAL Reserve Police (SRP) officer Sharon Roop, who won her right last November to wear her hijab while in uniform, has been awarded $185,000 by the High Court for breach of her Constitutional rights…” Read more

Cummings: I was asked to withdraw from university due to oversight of not referencing quotations
“Minister of Youth Development and National Service Foster Cummings has responded to claims that he was banned from pursuing postgraduate studies at a university because of plagiarism…” Read more
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