Diversification through the creative arts
Last week Thursday, in the Newsday, Marina Salandy-Brown wrote, “The Answers to many of our contemporary problems are so relatively simple that our inability to resolve them is tragic.” She went on to...
View ArticleOnline shopping can save foreign exchange
We keep hearing that online shopping is a drain on foreign exchange and the imposition of a seven per cent online tax (in addition to duty and VAT) is meant to curb it. But is it a drain? One can argue...
View ArticleSafe operating systems can prevent gas accidents
Within a one-year period there have been seven gas related incidents in highly populated areas. These incidents include several gas explosions/fire: Maraval El Pecos incident with one fatality, St...
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15 NGC workers sent home
National Gas Company yesterday issued severance letters to 15 contract workers and redeployed 69 others within the company, as the 100 per cent state-owned company signed a contract with Spanish energy...
View ArticleMuslim leaders want to meet ministers on ‘red flags’
Local Muslim leaders want a meeting with the Ministers of National Security and Foreign Affairs to discuss recent Government statements about security and monitoring systems, following revelations that...
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GML radio personality CG dies
Staff of Guardian Media Ltd (GML) were thrown into mourning late yesterday following the death of Vibe CT105.1FM radio personality Derek Selman, better known as CG.He died at the Mount Hope Medical...
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Estrada presents credentials
New US Ambassador to Port-of-Spain John L Estrada says citizens of T&T should unite, lobby the Government for stronger laws and work with the law enforcement agencies to stop gun violence in this...
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Relatives: Protection order would have saved Felicia
Relatives of Felicia Persad, whose body was found in the Mitan River last week Friday, said yesterday she would still be alive if only she had been granted a restraining order which she had filed...
View ArticleRamesar: SRPs waiting too long for appointment
A pre-action protocol letter is expected to reach the desk of Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi on Monday, outlining the intention of the Police Service Social and Welfare Association to legally challenge...
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Machel Montano sues TSTT over cancelled contract
Reigning Road March champion Machel Montano is suing the Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT) for terminating its sponsorship deal with him. In his filed lawsuit, Montano is seeking damages...
View ArticleBranch president insists: Not enough lifeguards
President of the Lifeguards Branch, Augustus Sylvester, is denying statements made by the Ministry of National Security that there are adequate lifeguards on duty.In a brief interview yesterday,...
View ArticleNo justice yet for Nekeisha
Just over one month since the headless body of Eden Nekeisha Teesdale was stuffed in a barrel and dumped in the Mitan River, relatives are wondering why the person she was last seen in the company of...
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25 restored computers for children homes
Even though government is reviewing the free laptop for secondary school children programme, Minister in the Ministry of Education Dr Lovell Francis said the Government will use funding to improve...
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Still born, half-baked ideas
Moody’s recent rating downgrade of T&T and its observation that the PNM Government lacks a rigorous medium term strategy confirms what the PP government had warned about, and the lack of strategy...
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IDB official: T&T needs diversification
Diversification of T&T's economy is critically important for the country to get out of the economic recession, according to Tomas Bermudez, country manager, Inter-American Development Bank...
View ArticleBreaking free from fossil fuel dependency
We all know that God is a Trini, has been and always will be. It’s time for us, however, as a nation, to start taking matters of importance into our own hands and finally cut the umbilical cord that...
View ArticleBlame govts for our economic problems
It is very sad to see the financial state of our present economy in our beloved sweet T&T.This was a disaster waiting to happen. The people are the ones that are going to feel the brunt of this...
View ArticleHarnessing the elusive water supply
It is difficult to understand how the Government can charge you for water and then tell you how or what you can use it for. Surely when you pay for something you have a right to use it how you want....
View ArticleA case for a well-planned community policing model
On Monday April 18, 2016 I attended a town meeting at the Techier Village Point Fortin Community Centre. It was put on by the South Western Division of the police service. This meeting was well...
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Strong growth for Sagicor in 2015
The Sagicor Group had a strong performance in 2015. Chairman Stephen McNamara said net income was US$76.8 million, an increase of 3.9 per cent from the US$73.9 million earned in 2014.“Net income from...
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