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Jail Chinese contractors for slavery
Posted: Sunday, October 18, 2009
Terrific T&T blaze into semi-finals
Trinidad & Tobago 213 for 4 (Barath 63, Simmons 40) beat Eagles 189 for 5 (Rossouw 44) -- Trinidad and Tobago, powered by a fearless batting performance, secured the final spot in the semi-final line-up of the Champions League. Their batsmen thrilled the Hyderabad crowd by playing a shot a ball during a relentless assault on the Eagles that propelled them to 213 for 4, the highest total of the tournament.
T&T will receive swine flu vaccines
Despite warnings from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of a shortfall in the supply of swine flu vaccines as the numbers of cases, hospitalisation and deaths grow to unprecedented levels, chief medical officer of the Ministry of Health Dr Anton Cumberbatch is assuring that T&T will receive its 260,000 vaccines.
Tent pitched for H1N1 testing
Manohar: It's a Humanitarian Crisis
Nigerian Security guards have been placed on the compound of the living quarters of Chinese construction workers at Ramsaran Trace, Cunupia and were instructed to keep the steel doors of the camp locked.
Jail Chinese contractors for slavery
So there is nothing wrong importing Chinese or Guyanese or other labourers and craftsmen who are productive, who give us quality work. It is the duty of the authorities, however, to ensure that these people are treated as human beings, not as slaves or animals.
Probe Chinese labour camps
Imagine being employed in another continent, unable to speak the country’s native tongue and overburdened by an inability to access hard-earned wages.
Chinese workers' quarters not up to mark
WHEN the Sunday Express arrived at Ramsaran Trace, Bejucal Road, Cunupia, and walked into the site that houses about 100 workers of the Beijing Luijing Construction Company (TT) Ltd, the first thing we noticed was the pungent urine smell.
Elias calls on PM Manning to fire Chinese contractors
In an unprecedented move, the Government has quietly fired a Chinese contractor it hired two years ago to build the Princes Town East Secondary School, citing a lack of delivery on nearly 90 per cent of the $151 milllion project.
Cartel hiring Chinese workers, says Elias
With last week's protest action by the Chinese workers still fresh in the public's consciousness comes a new revelation of the apparent involvement of T&T firms in the exploitation of Chinese labour on local projects.
Shanghai workers satisfied
Mao's people
Who knew that we were capable of doing this to the descendants of Mao Zedong? Tiny little Trinidad and Tobago, population of 1.3 million or so persons going up against the historical might of China, population 1.3 billion or so, and managing to break the will, the spirit of a people.
The immigrants
WHILE SOME of you yesterday feasted on the delights of Divali, in a small camp at the top of Frederick Street, Chinese workers spent the day in iron cargo containers. Others were enduring squalid living conditions at a camp at Ramsaran Trace, Cunupia. And while this week 70 such workers took to the streets warning the State that they have been illegally trafficked into the country, the response of our State officials has been tepid.
FITUN told you so
The protest by workers from China highlighted problems that have existed for several years, but which the authorities have refused to deal with. And let it not be said that they were unaware of the working and living conditions of these workers.
...Hurting TT's image
Local groups call for probe
On Friday a number of groups also commented on the workers' protest in press releases.The Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) said that Government should broaden its investigation to include all projects in which migrants are being used.
UTC hires receiver for US$1.5b development
The Unit Trust Corporation last week pulled the plug on a US$1.5 billion development in the Turks & Caicos Islands, placing a five-star resort there into receivership because it had failed to meet payments on a loan from the local financial institution.
Lifeline for Angostura
The CL Financial Group and State-owned First Citizens Bank have brokered a restructuring deal which could revitalise the beleaguered books of debt-laden Angostura, the CL Financial Group Chief Executive Officer Steve Bideshi revealed on Friday.
Private sector has role to play in CL's future
Time and proper management are the healing tools that CL Financial needs- and some interest from the local private financial sector wouldn't hurt either.
Destroying independence of the DPP
Unfortunately, the prosecution machinery has been found to have been used by some governments to serve their political purposes.
Emergency landing for plane heading to Trinidad
Airport security officials say a small plane carrying ten passengers was forced to make an emergency landing in Grenada after its engine caught fire.
Fifth suspect held in murder of teacher
Strip search
...a blanket strip-search of a group of students, reportedly comprising of 30 or more, without reference to whether suspicion has fallen on a particular individual is wrong. Not surprisingly, but sadly, it is reported that the majority of parents are too cowed to demand redress.
The Ministry of Justice
Selwyn Ryan
The ministers and the media
It's because the Government cares so much about the media that it referred two journalists and a media house to the Privileges Committee last week.
Deportee weeps to go 'home'
Kathy-Ann Drakes wept profusely as she told how she was deported after being convicted of killing a man while defending her children. Drakes, a fit and attractive 45-year-old, stepped out of the airplane at Piarco Airport three days after Christmas in 2001 into a country she does not know, she said. She lived in the US for more than 30 years.
Sharma: Disunity part of the Indian psyche
12 South Americans held in hotel
TWELVE South American women were arrested early Friday morning after a police raid at a hotel in Marabella. The women are nationals of Suriname, Santo Domingo and Colombia.
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