Author: Jada Loutoo
A police officer has to wait a little longer to have his day in court to challenge his suspension, which has gone on for almost three years. PC Mikhail Gonzales, formerly assigned to the now disbanded Special Operations Response Team (SORT), was suspended in January 2022, around the time of an investigation into the deaths […]
THE Public Services Association (PSA) is calling on Keithroy Halliday, newly-appointed CEO of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA), to address the issues highlighted in a recent High Court decision involving senior managers. The union also intends to write to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Commissioner of Police (CoP) to examine the […]
YOUTH Development and National Service Minister Foster Cummings and UNC Senator Jayanti Lutchmedial-Ramdial will face off in the courtroom in July 2025. Three days in July have been set aside for Cummings’ defamation claim against the senator and a local media house. They are from July 21 to 23. Justice Nadia Kangaloo set the trial […]
A HIGH COURT judge has dismissed a claim and counterclaim over alleged unpaid invoices and overpayments in a dispute between a retired project manager and the Trustees of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago. The case revolved around a $203,929.76 claim by Kendal Lindsay, of Trincity, for unpaid invoices and a […]
THE Privy Council has reserved its decision on the Appeal Court’s jurisdiction to hear a challenge from the High Court on the grant of bail for murder. In May 2023, Justices of Appeal Nolan Bereaux, Maria Wilson and Ronnie Boodoosingh delivered a split decision in an appeal brought by six police officers and another man […]
THE State has been ordered to compensate a senior public servant for a 16-year delay in classifying her leave. Justice Frank Seepersad made the order on November 11. Marsha Mungal will receive $250,000 for the breaches of her rights. Seepersad also ruled Mungal was treated unfairly when the Ministry of Labour failed to deliver a […]
A PARAMIN farmer who wrote to the Pope after being sued by the Archbishop of Port of Spain has been ordered to vacate the grounds of the Our Lady of Guadalupe RC Church, Paramin. Jude St Hilaire was also given a little over three months to remove his fruit stall and an unfinished concrete building […]
FORMER Strategic Services Agency (SSA) director retired Major Roger Best is challenging his dismissal from the elite spy agency in May. His attorneys filed a constitutional motion on November 7. Best’s motion seeks declarations that his rights were breached. Six declarations are being sought and he also wants compensation for loss of income and the […]
A FORMER acting army major will be compensated for the breach of his rights in the TT Defence Force’s (TTDF) failure to prepare his performance appraisals for a decade, which hindered his assessment for promotion. Peter Fletcher will now return to the judge who held his right had been breached for an assessment of what […]
THE Privy Council has dismissed an appeal filed by the Finance Minister Colm Imbert and the Cabinet challenging the Appeal Court’s decision to allow Auditor General Jaiwantee Ramdass to pursue her lawsuit objecting to a probe of her approach to auditing the 2023 public accounts. The ruling means her lawsuit will go ahead in the […]