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A PROMINENT business family from Barbados has lost an $8 million claim against hotelier Courtyard by Marriott after their patriarch slipped in the bathroom of his hotel room at the Port of Spain-based hotel, in 2008, and eventually became a paraplegic. He died 19 months later. Shouket Abed’s children filed the lawsuit against the Courtyard
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A Tobago man who was jailed for the unlawful killing (manslaughter) of a teenager in 2010, has been freed by the Court of Appeal after prosecutors conceded his appeal.
In one month's time, the Court of Appeal is expected to rule on a challenge by social and political activist Ravi Balgobin-Maharaj of Government’s intent to postpone local government elections by one year. On Tuesday, Justices of Appeal Prakash Moosai, Gillian Lucky and James Aboud reserved their ruling, saying they needed time to consider but