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Mark criticises new fiscal measures: Poor targetted, rich rewarded
Deal with T&T’s tax dodgers and companies that abuse transfer-pricing systems rather than “pressure” average citizens who are hurting and “crying blood” over Government’s austerity measures,...
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Maxi fares stay same... for now
Red band maxi taxi drivers will not be increasing their fares to the public just yet.So said president of the Route Two Maxi Taxi Association, Linus Phillip, following a marathon meeting with its...
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Dead bandit linked to other crimes
Kemroy Alexander, the teenager who died following a high-speed chase with police on Saturday, has been linked to a stolen car used in a drive-by murder in central Trinidad earlier this year....
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Devant settles lawsuit against Jack
Former Food Production Minister Devant Maharaj has agreed to withdraw his defamation lawsuit against Jack Warner’s Sunshine newspaper. Maharaj did so yesterday after attorneys for the colleagues,...
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IMF: Slower for longer
WASHINGTON, DC—The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday warned that slowing growth exposed the global economy to significant negative risks that could trigger renewed financial turbulence.The...
View ArticleLawyer on service station licences: Ministry may have allowed illegality
Lawyers representing the Energy Ministry yesterday admitted that their client may have “condoned an illegality” by allowing service stations to operate without valid petroleum retail marketing licences...
View ArticleCentral Bank estimates 5,000 jobs lost
As many as 5,000 workers may have lost their jobs since the fourth quarter of 2015, the Central Bank estimates. In its March 2016 Economic Bulletin, the bank is forecasting a slackening of domestic...
View ArticleTime to harness the PTA resource
As the country painfully seeks solutions to the growing problems within our schools, we seem to be overlooking an already existing significant resource which we need to use to our greater advantage.I...
View ArticleT&T cannot remain a welfare state for too long
Should we appease our high sense of taste and go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)? Or should we sacrifice our wants and bear with increase taxes, gas and food prices.As human beings it is hard...
View ArticleDevaluations do not create competitiveness
Dr Roger Hosein of UWI advises that the TT$ should be allowed to slide to say, TT$8 or TT$9 to the US$ as a means of improving the nation’s competitiveness on the global market. What he is recommending...
View ArticleBlindsided by the knowledge economy
The global economy is in transition from an industrial economy to a knowledge-based economy, where an intangible, ie “knowledge” is used to create goods and services or add value to existing ones. This...
View ArticleTime to end ‘we can’t eat the money’ syndrome
Since the Minister of Finance budget prescription, I have heard two “threats” of a possible increase in prices, the first from a doubles vendor and the other from a Tobago fisherman, both based on the...
View ArticleTeachers can’t deal with young deviants
It was recently published that teachers in some primary schools in east Trinidad are scared for their lives. This is also the case in the other geographical regions. Can you imagine this is where we...
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Young Blood for CPL
BRIDGETOWN—Six stars from the West Indies Under-19 squad which won the World Cup earlier this year are to feature in the fourth edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which starts late June.The...
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T&T Guardian’s cartoonist dies suddenly
T&T Guardian’s longstanding cartoonist, Louis Legendre, passed away on Tuesday. He was 68 years. Speaking with the T&T Guardian yesterday, Legendre’s wife, Carola, said her husband’s death was...
View ArticleMaracas Beach now $500 per visit
The wrecker was working tirelessly these past Sundays, happily wrecking cars on Maracas Beach in areas free from “no parking” signs.The Maracas Redesign and Restoration Project has catered in no way...
View ArticleBalanced approach to taxation best for T&T
Innovation and clever incentives are required to grow the economy. I think that our citizens are hungry for a more pragmatic and concrete discussion on how we can navigate the stormy seas ahead. We...
View ArticleCredit card tax absolutely discriminatory
The proposed seven per cent Internet surcharge on Internet purchases proposed by the Minister of Finance, is discriminatory since it selects certain people to be taxed claiming that this measure will...
View ArticleLess tax, more jobs
Investment opportunities only exist if it can produce returns on investment (ROI), after paying its legitimate obligations. It must offer capital gains—growing the investment value and dividends...
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Derrick barred from CONCACAF run
MIAMI—Caribbean Football Union head, Gordon Derrick, has been barred by football’s world governing body, FIFA, from running for CONCACAF president, after failing an integrity check.Antiguan Derrick was...
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