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Energy Minister Franklin Khan addresses the Senate, alongside, from left, government senators Clarence Rambharat, Jennifer Baptiste-Primus, Paula Gopee-Scoon on Ferbuary 11, 2020. File photo/Vidya Thurab -
RURAL Development and Local Government Minister Kazim Hosein expressed shock and sadness at the passing of Energy Minister Franklin Khan having spoken to him just hours before on Friday.
“The man was in high spirits when we talked last night. He did not sound as though he was ill or anything,” said Hosein who may have been one of the last people to talk with Khan on Friday night.
Hosein who served with Khan in the Senate, told Newsday he called Khan around 9.45 pm to seek his advice but got no response.
Labour unmoved by calls to return to NTAC
Michael Annisette - ROGER JACOB
THE LABOUR movement appears to be unmoved by calls for it to return to the National Tripartite Advisory Council (NTAC). The National Trade Union Centre (Natuc), the Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions and NGOs (FITUN) all resigned from NTAC on March 11.
NTAC chairman, Planning and Development Minister Camille Robinson-Regis, subsequently urged the three labour organisations to rejoin the council in the best interest of the country.
Asked on Saturday if there were any other efforts by Government to persuade the labour movement to rejoin NTAC, Natuc general secretary Michael Annisette replied, Not to my knowledge, other than the formal statements made by former minister of labour Jennifer Baptiste-Primus and the chairman of the committee (Robinson-Regis).
One from three leaves nought
Sunday 14 March 2021
Trade union leaders emerge after a meeting to discuss their exit from the National Tripartite Advisory Council last week in Port of Spain. - SUREASH CHOLAI
The withdrawal of the trade union movement en masse from the National Tripartite Advisory Council (NTAC) all but ensures that the work of the council will become meaningless.
The Joint Trade Union Movement, the National Trade Union Centre and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions announced on Wednesday that they are withdrawing from NTAC because of what NATUC vice-president James Lambert described as the disrespect we have experienced from the government of TT.
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