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Downstream retrenchment part of energy industry malaise Thursday 14 January 2021 In this January 2020 file photo, OWTU president Ancel Roget meets with Yara employees at Paramount Building, Circular Road, San Fernando. - Tragically in the news this week has been the grievance referred to the Industrial Court regarding the retrenchment of 15 workers from Yara Trinidad’s plant, which had closed in 2019. It is especially tragic as it comes on the heels of claims of some alleged 30,000 associated contract, transport and entrepreneurial employees in the energy sector, in and around the Point Li...

A BURGLAR who stole a Japanese tea grinder will be sentenced later this month. Appearing before Swindon Magistrates’ Court, Billy-Jo Cosgrave, 24, of Pinehurst Road, pleaded guilty to a non-dwelling burglary. Prosecutors say he broke into the Paramount Building apartment block on Beckhampton Street on December 10, 2019, and stole a Japanese tea grinder worth £60. Gordon Hotson, for Cosgrave, said his client was awaiting sentence on other matters later in the month. He asked the magistrates to sentence the burglary on the same date. JPs agreed to the request. Cosgrave will be sent...

Roberta Sabban Maurice Amiel is in a festive mood these days. Besides his birthday being today, he will be ringing in 2021 by celebrating The French Wine Merchant’s first decade in Palm Beach. His shop, tucked away in the historic Paramount Building, is reminiscent of neighborhood wine shops found in Europe. Sleek, softly lit mahogany cases display well-curated selections of mostly French wines. Stacks of wooden wine crates are waiting for pickup and delivery. It is a friendly place. The current incarnation of the shop, like Amiel’s life, came about serendipitously. He was born in French ...

McCartt, long-time local businessman, dies AGN Media Amarillo businessman Joseph Robert "Joe Bob" McCartt died on Dec. 28, 2020, from COVID-related complications, according to an obituary published in the Globe-News. He was 73.  Born on July 2, 1947, McCartt attended Wolflin Elementary, Austin Junior High, graduated from Amarillo High School and attended both Amarillo College and West Texas State University before graduating with a Bachelor's in Business Administration from the University of Mississippi. He returned to Amarillo and began a career in commercial real estate. McCartt is credit...