“[…] Is it that we are spending tens of millions of the people’s money to upgrade facilities only to then hand these facilities over to private owners? “With the end of subsidisation of fuel prices coupled with the handover of the people’s assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to …
Read More »Dear Editor: Government spinning Anansi stories to suppress workers’ wages
“[…] Minister Imbert has […] set the stage for entrenching the austerity programme the IMF has long been advising: privatisation, deregulation, the reduction of the public sector, wage suppression. “This austerity, of course, involves the weakening of the trade unions through the hiving off of the health sector, a de …
Read More »Here comes the boom! World Junior powerlifting champ, Hunte, targets global domination
“This year, going into next year, we could really see a big boom in powerlifting in Trinidad and Tobago.” Twenty two year old Junior Powerlifting world record holder Rondel Hunte, for one, is excited about 2019, as he aims to lift his sport to the forefront of the local sport …
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