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Court orders state to pay compensation to international tobacco distributor

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PORT OF SPAIN,  Trinidad, Feb 25, CMC – A High Court judge has ordered the Trinidad and Tobago government to pay an estimated TT$70,000 (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) in compensation to an international tobacco distributor with a free zone designation, after the business had been wrongly shut down for a month by the Ministry of Health in 2023.

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