More than 200 work­ers are fac­ing months of un­cer­tain­ty as Nestlé Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sale process moves in­to its next phase, with the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) re­veal­ing that an in­ter­na­tion­al firm in Switzer­land will over­see the trans­ac­tion while dairy farm­ers con­tin­ue to voice fears over the fu­ture of the lo­cal milk in­dus­try.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $100,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a fe­male bounc­er, who was as­sault­ed and ma­li­cious­ly pros­e­cut­ed af­ter she at­tempt­ed to stop a pair of plain clothes po­lice of­fi­cers from en­ter­ing a night­club with­out pay­ing the $60 cov­er charge.

A Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­man has lost more than $1.3 mil­lion, af­ter his com­mer­cial bank ac­count was al­leged­ly hacked in what busi­ness lead­ers say re­flects a grow­ing threat of so­phis­ti­cat­ed on­line bank­ing fraud in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The rhythm of Or­isha drums, songs of praise and the voic­es of some of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s lead­ing cul­tur­al fig­ures filled the air yes­ter­day as fam­i­ly, friends, ca­lyp­so­ni­ans and mem­bers of the artis­tic com­mu­ni­ty gath­ered at the Mor­vant Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre to cel­e­brate the ex­tra­or­di­nary life of cul­tur­al icon Bill “Paul” Trot­man.