On Wednesday, ex-Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) employee Leanna Pereira was ordered to pay almost $725,000 to Dilks Diseree Pierre, of La Romaine. Pereira was also ordered to pay costs of $80,300. The order was made by Justice Frank Seepersad, who was presiding over Pierre’s claim against Pereira and the bank. The matter was expected
A payload operator with a local shipping company will receive just under $.5 million in compensation after he injured his back because of a defective seat in a piece of heavy machinery used on the job. In a recent ruling, Justice Carol Gobin ordered Oldendorff Carriers Trinidad and Tobago to compensate the payload operator in
Here is another saddening story of a strong-arm government agency using taxpayers’ money to take undue advantage of a poor senior citizen. Attorney Keith Scotland won 70-year-old Janet Bernard Rousseau an award of almost $2 million for WASA’s breach of statutory duty – failing to repair a burst water main – since 2003. The came
That very instructive December 22 judgment by the Privy Council (PC) against WASA’s “negligent failure” in its statutory duties stands out as a flagship decision regarding the role of lawyers, judicial independence, apparent spite and abuse of taxpayers’ money, very insensitive government agencies, lack of proper oversight for government litigation and some reasons for case-backlogs.
A DECADE after their dream home in Iere Village, Princes Town began slipping because of a leaking pipeline, homeowners Darwin and Kamlar Sahadath will receive the $2.2 million compensation ordered by the court.