Shutdown to cost businesses
WHOLESALE MERCHANTS and other proprietors in downtown Kingston are expected to lose millions of dollars in sales because of yesterday's involuntary shutdown of stores in the business district following demonstrations by vendors.
Minimum wage moves to $1,800
CABINET HAS recommended a 50 per cent increase in the National Minimum Wage which moves from $1,200 per week to $1,800, effective January 7, 2002. This means persons earning the minimum wage will now be paid at a rate of $45 per hour for a 40-hour...
Party's bank account remains frozen
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A HIGH Court judge yesterday, adjourned until December 3 hearing of a case filed by the Royal Bank, seeking to determine which faction of the ruling United National Congress (UNC) controls the bank account.
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