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A multi-million-dollar security camera network aimed at giving police and other national security agencies the ability to monitor activities in cities, towns and highways has been found to be riddled with technical problems, producing footage that is is reportedly "blurred, dirty, obstructed, unclear and unstable." The claim was made as the government mounts a defence
Finance Minister Colm Imbert has been found to have acted unlawfully and irrationally when he decided not to recommend an assistant commissioner of the Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) to the position of commissioner in 2021.
Appeal Court approves $19.5m sale of Victoria Square property - Photo by Roger Jacob TWO Appeal Court judges have dismissed a property developer appeal of a judge’s approval of the sale of her family’s building at Victoria Square, Port of Spain. The sale was aimed at recovering a large portion of a $40 million loan to trustees of the Guardian Defined Benefit Pension Fund Plan. The dismissal of the appeal now means the property can be sold, but, there is a seven-day stay of the court’s decision. Leonara Deslauriers challenged the sale of the building at 28-29Victoria Square, Port of Spa...
Andre Monteil, Clico Investment Bank ex-CEO ordered to repay bank $78m plus interest Former CIB chairman Andre Monteil. FORMER Clico Investment Bank (CIB) chairman Andre Monteil, his company Stone Street Capital (SSC), and the bank’s former CEO Richard Trotman have been ordered to repay a whopping $78 million, plus almost $20 million in interest, to the bank. In a recent decision, Justice Avason Quinlan-Williams also gave CIB permission to trace assets owned by the two men and SSC from a $78 million loan agreement back in 2007. The CIB – which is currently in compulsory liquidation and th...
Digicel loses second round of porting dispute with TSTT - DIGICEL has lost round two of its legal battle against its main competitor, TSTT, over a complaint that TSTT was rejecting its subscribers who want to port (switch) their numbers to the Digicel network. On Thursday last week, two appellate court judges upheld a judge’s ruling to stay Digicel’s complaint and refer the dispute to the Telecommunications Authority (TATT). Justices of Appeal Prakash Moosai and Vasheist Kokaram on Thursday held that Justice Nadia Kangaloo was “not plainly wrong” when she stayed Digicel's complaint ...