A HIGH COURT judge has set aside the $850-million-plus arbitration award to Brazilian construction firm Construtora OAS SA over the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension project. On Wednesday, Justice Frank Seepersad ruled in favour of an application of the National Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (Nidco). “Having reviewed the evidence which was before the tribunal, this court
A thirty-two-year-old man died at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope on Wednesday morning after he was involved in a car accident in Caroni.A police report said Paul Ali of Priam Street, San Fernando, was driving south along the Uriah Butler Highway near the Caroni overpass when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the ravine on the western side of the highway.
The police have not yet identified the body of the man found wrapped in plastic on the roadside on the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension in South Oropouche on Tuesday.
THE EDITOR: It’s haunting to think that the highways we traverse every morning to go to work were final destinations for so many. Sincere condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of Rond Mohammed, 19, who lost his life when he "fell out of a car which became airborne and slammed into another vehicle