Derek Achong

2 days ago | guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong

Senior [email protected] families of at least two of the four divers, who perished in a tragedy at Paria Fuel Trading Company’s Pointe-a-Pierre facility in 2022, have brought claims against their former employer under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. This week, the Judiciary issued a notice of the claim made against Land and Marine Contracting Services Limited (LMCS) by relatives of Fyzal Kurban.

3 days ago | guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong

Senior [email protected] chief magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar has resumed duties as a High Court Judge. Guardian Media understands that Ayers-Caesar took up duties in the Judiciary last month, weeks after the United Kingdom-based Privy Council delivered judgment in the final appeal of her lawsuit over being pressured by Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC) and its chairman, Chief Justice Ivor Archie, into resigning almost eight years ago.

4 days ago | guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong

A 37-year-old man from Freeport has been freed of having sex with a teenager. The man, whose identity was withheld based on the nature of the case and its eventual outcome, was acquitted of the sexual penetration of a minor charge at the end of his judge-alone trial before Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds on Monday. He was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl in a guest house in Chase Village in January, last year.

1 week ago | guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong

Senior [email protected] subsidiary of the Furness Group of Companies has been ordered to pay $80,000 to a chef, who was terminated after being accused of leaving the door to a freezer open.

1 week ago | guardian.co.tt | Derek Achong

Derek AchongSenior reporterUS energy company ConocoPhillips and its subsidiaries have been granted permission to register locally an over US$10 billion arbitration award against Venezuela. Delivering a decision after submissions from lawyers for the companies at the Waterfront Judicial Centre, yesterday morning, Justice Frank Seepersad upheld their application to register the award granted by the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in 2019.