A vocational training provider with more than 450 students and 30 staff has gone into voluntary administration. The College of Australian Training is a Registered Training Organisation who provided nationally recognised training in 35 different locations across Australia. The organisation is based in Queensland and has campuses in Townsville, Cairns, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. The College…
Prisoners are clocking up debt from behind bars and are often unaware they have a gambling problem. A new pilot scheme will target gambling in prisons to reduce rates of reoffending and standover tactics behind bars. The Problem Gambling Foundation is preparing to roll out a pilot program across three Canterbury prisons. Remand residents would have…
CALGARY Twelve months after emerging from a court-supervised restructuring, junior oilsands producer Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd. is again seeking court protection from creditors. The Calgary company announced Monday that it had asked the Court of Queens Bench for shielding under the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act while it tries to arrange a sale of its…
There are 14 brand new multi-millionaires in Campbelltown after a group of factory workers won last night’s Powerball jackpot No resolution: A Powerball syndicate has just two days to resolve a dispute over a $40 million jackpot. THINGS arent looking up for the Powerball syndicate winners embroiled in a clash for cash. A syndicate of…
Kristin Lammerting of Kerikeri’s Palmco Café blames the liquidation on mismanagement by a general manager she employed and an accountant. Photo / Peter de Graaf A Northland business liquidated after it ran into financial difficulties owes nearly 100 companies throughout the country more than $1.7 million. The largest amount owed by Kerikeri-based LIG Lammerting Business…
The abandonment of Old Trafford is reported to have cost the club £3m and Christopher Reid has apologised for the chaos caused by his security firm The Old Trafford fake bomb blunder that resulted in Manchester United’s clash with Bournemouth being abandoned on Sunday could result in the liquidation of the security company which misplaced…
Chinas military underwent a major restructuring last year in a bid to prepare its military for conflict, the Pentagon said in its latest annual assessment of the Communist Party-controlled Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). The armed forces were reformed with new military regions, a new command structure, and updated strategies to better fight regional, high technology…
A technician opens a coin-operated amusement machine at a Duluth gas station. BOB ANDRES / [email protected] The city thats trying to ease penalties for pot possession is also known for clamping down on video gambling. Does Clarkston suffer from a fickle streak when it comes to vice? Not at all, said Mayor Ted Terry. In his…
A boss at a western Sydney factory claims his colleagues are trying to rob him of his share in a $40 million Powerball jackpot he says was won by a syndicate with a ticket he bought. Brendon King, who is a senior manager at Liverpool-based cable manufacturer Prysmian Group, said he paid for the ticket…
Options? In advance of MONDAY’s trial in its suit against bondholders seeking to declare it in default and accelerate bond payments, iHEARTMEDIA filed a disclosure statement with the SEC detailing proposals on the table at mediation that have been submitted by the bondholders and iHEART. In…