Share­hold­ers of An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Lim­it­ed are be­ing urged to vote against the re-elec­tion of a di­rec­tor, with a draft let­ter to share­hold­ers putting the com­pa­ny’s near­ly $1 bil­lion claim against CL Fi­nan­cial Lim­it­ed at the cen­tre of a cor­po­rate gov­er­nance bat­tle ahead of Wednes­day’s An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM).

In the wake of Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd chair­man Kurt Ram­lal’s res­ig­na­tion, one of the en­er­gy com­pa­ny’s dis­missed di­rec­tors, Romel Lal­loo, says the Gov­ern­ment is “im­plod­ing”, with sev­er­al di­rec­tors and se­nior of­fi­cials de­part­ing State boards in re­cent months.

The body of a 45-year-old man was found float­ing at Pi­geon Point beach around mid­day yes­ter­day.

The Youth Train­ing and Em­ploy­ment Part­ner­ship Pro­gramme (YTEPP) Lim­it­ed is ex­plor­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for greater col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na in youth de­vel­op­ment, tech­ni­cal train­ing and work­force readi­ness.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) has urged politi­cians and the me­dia to stop ex­ploit­ing race, re­li­gion, and cul­ture as tools of di­vi­sion in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

An­tigua & Bar­bu­da Fal­cons main­tained their per­fect home record with a six wick­et vic­to­ry over the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL).

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um chair­man Kurt Ram­lal has re­signed af­ter be­ing asked to step down last week, ac­cord­ing to se­nior Gov­ern­ment sources.

State-owned First Cit­i­zens has lost six se­nior of­fi­cers in the past year, leav­ing the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion in what a whistle­blow­er re­port de­scribes as a “pre­car­i­ous po­si­tion.”

For­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter and sen­a­tor Hazel Man­ning is set to of­fer her­self for the chair­man­ship of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East (SFE) con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive when elec­tions are held next month.

While con­cerned about the spate and un­pre­dictable na­ture of vi­o­lent crime, Ari­ma ven­dors say they will con­tin­ue their dai­ly rou­tines, al­beit with greater cau­tion, af­ter two men were gunned down in the bor­ough’s com­mer­cial cen­tre ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

One of two men who were beat­en to death by Venezue­lan na­tion­als dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in Fyz­abad on Fri­day had been re­leased from prison on­ly a few months ago.

Years af­ter sur­viv­ing sep­a­rate vi­o­lent at­tacks, Trini­bad artistes K-Man and Plumpy Boss met face-to-face on Sat­ur­day, in a bid to pro­mote peace and pos­i­tiv­i­ty among com­mu­ni­ties in east Port-of-Spain and Laven­tille.