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Address NIS deficit
Posted: Thursday, March 14, 2024

Address NIS deficit
In its concluding statement following an Article IV consultation on T&T on Monday, the IMF staff suggested raising National Insurance contributions along with the retirement age to ensure the long-term sustainability of the country's pension system.

Arjoon: T&T will not reach pre-pandemic economic stability till 2026

Ferguson seeks injunction to stop Miami US$131m judgment recovery
BUSINESSMAN Steve Ferguson is seeking to stop the State from pursuing discovery applications in a United States court as it seeks to enforce a multi-million-dollar RICO-case judgment to recover US$131 million arising out of the Piarco International Airport expansion project decades ago.

Autopsy confirms Hannah Mathura died unnaturally
Cops detain parents

Tobago students win junior, senior folk choirs at Music Festival
Scarborough Methodist Primary and Bishop's High School (Tobago) fended off strong competition to repeat Tobago's win of the junior calypso choir class on Tuesday.

Birds galore at Manzanilla
A flock of blue and yellow macaws made themselves quite an attraction, also a distraction, to motorists along the Eastern Main Road, Manzanilla, in the vicinity of the Nariva Swamp. Their piercing calls filled the airwaves far overriding the crashing surf along the Atlantic coastline.

Trinidadian national in US immigration custody dies at processing center
ICE said that Charles Leo Daniel, 61, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, was first encountered by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Seattle on July 29, 2015, at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, Washington, where he was incarcerated following a murder conviction by the King County Superior Court October 29, 2003.

The hospital's forgotten dead
Eighty-year-old Shirley Bodney Dookran died on January 9 at the Emergency Department of the San Fernando General Hospital.

However, it was not until almost two months later her death was known to relatives, who said they are unsure how she got there.

Young Mayaro mother loses battle with cancer
Doon, 22, fought hard to beat the disease but faced major obstacles. She needed life-saving medication from India that required authorisation from the Ministry of Health. The approval was never given.



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