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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News People shop in Princes Town on Friday. - Marvin Hamilton As the countdown to Christmas continues, businesses in Princes Town are pleased that the pace of sales is picking up. When Newsday visited businesses in the area on Friday, PS Tots and Teens Toddler 2 owner Paul Sookraj said sales were slow in November but have been improving in the last two weeks. Sookraj told Newsday, “Things have been slowly […]
An HDC official at the site, who did not what to be named, told Newsday the HDC could not give an exact date for the finishing the repairs.
However, the spokesman said the corporation is working to do so as quickly as possible once the weather does not affect the work.
The post Residents: Complete Oasis Greens roadworks before Xmas appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
S. E. Williams | On Monday, December 13, between the hours of 11:00 am 7:00 pm, the nonprofit organization Reach Out, will host an all-day COVID-19 vaccination event in partnership with the Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) and the Riverside County Department of Public Health. The day long vaccine clinic will be held at the […]
The post Community-based Nonprofit Announces COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic appeared first on Black Voice News.
[Monitor] The government decision to close mobile Covid-19 vaccination centre in Kampala Metropolitan area has increased pressure on the few hospital-based centres, causing unprecedented delays as Ugandans seek the life-saving jabs.
TSTT is working to create a single pension plan to cover the needs of retirees and current employees, the company said in a statement Wednesday.
The state-owned telecommunications provider gave this response to an appeal by TSTT retirees and those of its predecessor, Telephone Company (Telco), for increased pension payments.
It said it has been in discussions with the Communications Workers Union (CWU) and awaited feedback on the single plan.
The company said there are \"limitations\" on what it can do about the applicable pension plans which are managed under a \"robust regulatory framework.\"
\"We have been working towards the development of one pension plan that will eliminate the unfortunate duplication of costs, and forgone consolidated assets maximisation,\" it said.
\"This approach is set to increase efficiency, optimise performance and address concerns, (inclusive of an enhancement of pensioners' benefits) as best as is practical, that are faced by former employees.\"
Ian Clarke, a former manager, has written TSTT on behalf of 1,500 pensioners and their families seeking the increased pensions. Clarke said there were Telco/TSTT pensioners who were classified as senior staff and who receive monthly pensions of over $10,000, but some former junior staff, by contrast, were receiving less than $1,000 a month.
He said a pension valuation exercise by the actuaries of the plan, Bacon Woodrow and de Souza, on March 31 showed the plan had a surplus of more than $771.1 million. RBC is the plan's trustee.
Discussions earlier this year between TSTT and the CWU, he said, led to agreement on three critical matters:
· The payment of minimum pension levels to retired employees.
· The reinstatement of three per cent of monthly pension and a one-off payment to retirees for for 2009-2020 to compensate for the company's stopping annual pension increases.
· The reimbursement of 1.5 per cent of monthly salary deducted by mistake from employees' contributions to the pension plan for 1994-2000.
Clarke said actuaries said the cost of making these changes would amount to approximately $200,000 and would not adversely affect the plan.
TSTT said the three items are \"part of a larger holistic conversation\" for a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the CWU.
\"They are not mutually exclusive and are dependent on the execution of the MoA by the parties.\"
TSTT said it remained committed to resolving the pension issues for all stakeholders.
The post TSTT working on single pension plan to cover retirees, employees appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
Tobago has opened its covid19 vaccine booster programme to anyone who wants an additional layer of protection against covid19.
In an interview with Newsday on Wednesday, Dr Roxanne Mitchell, acting general manager of primary care services at the Scarborough General Hospital, outlined the policy.
She said: “All persons are now eligible for the booster shot – anybody who has received the first and second doses and you are six months out from the second dose, you can receive a booster shot.”
She said there are four sites open and people can go to any.
“The four sites include the Port Mall in Scarborough, Scarborough Health Centre, Roxborough Health Centre and Canaan Health Centre for now.”
When Newsday visited the site at the Port Mall, several people were seen waiting to get their jab.
Mitchell said people who received two AstraZeneca doses will receive a Pfizer booster, while those who received Sinopharm will get an additional dose of the same brand.
In Trinidad, people 60 and over are eligible for a third dose of the Sinopharm vaccine, while those below 60 must be moderately or severely immunocompromised to get one.
When it comes to additional Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson jabs, anyone of any age can get the booster once they have been determined to be moderately or severely immunocompromised by their physician.
Asked to comment on the decision to open the booster programme for all, in contrast to Trinidad, Tobago Regional Health Authority CEO Westly Orr insisted that Tobago was following Trinidad's policy.
The Division of Health, Wellness and Family Development said on Wednesday there are 23,441 people partially vaccinated in Tobago, and 22,445 are fully vaccinated. (with reporting by Elizabeth Gonzales)
The post No restrictions on covid19 vaccine boosters in Tobago appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
A survey commissioned by Amnesty International South Africa found that threats of violence, abuse and bullying are a \"common\" experience for many South African women.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta launched an independent investigation Wednesday into the Torrance Police Department after evidence emerged that officers were sharing racist and homophobic texts in which they joked about slave lynchings, LGBTQ beatings and police shootings of Black men. FILE - California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks at a news conference on Aug. […]
The post State AG launches investigation of racist, homophobic texts by Torrance police officers appeared first on L.A. Focus News.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will give Barbados a two-year break from making payments on its five loans if the island is significantly impacted by a natural disaster. Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn disclosed in the House of Assembly on Tuesday that after lobbying by the Government, the Washington-based institution had agreed […]
The post IDB agrees to natural disaster clause appeared first on Barbados Today.
California's Department of Justice launched an investigation into the Torrance Police Department on Wednesday in response to a developing scandal
The post Racist, homophobic texts from Torrance police revealed; probe launched appeared first on TheGrio.
Press Release - A review of SA's labour laws is long overdue -Employment and labour Minister T.W Nxesi
