93,586 shares change hands for $2.1m
Overall market activity resulted from trading in 13 securities of which one advanced, four declined and eight traded firm. Trading activity on the First Tier Market registered a volume of 93,586 shares...
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TTADA: More forex use with new policy
President of the T&T Automotive Dealers Association (TTADA) Visham Babwah is warning that millions of dollars more in foreign exchange will be spent as a result of the new foreign used vehicle...
View ArticleVAT on books misguided
A few weeks ago, I read the retrospection by Reginald Dumas, The First Thirty Years, a fascinating narrative of that period of his life. It was such a rich account of the times; engaging and insightful...
View ArticleLet’s make sense of the nonsense
You added 12.5 per cent tax on school books but alcohol tax remains the same. The cost of educating yourself has gone up but the cost of putting your health and other people’s lives at risk remains...
View ArticleTell us what’s going on, PSC
The Police Service Commission (PSC) needs to be quickly awakened. It has been rather silent for about a year now. Part of its mandate is to monitor and evaluate the performance of the Commissioner and...
View ArticleA $20/bbl of oil will create a perfect storm
The world is at war and the weapon is oil. A quick, abbreviated and exponentially simplified synopsis of what’s going on:1. Saudi Arabia, the Saudi dynasty, is at risk and is desperately fighting for...
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Day of decision for Camps
Former president of the T&T Football Federation (TTFF), Oliver Camps, will know today whether his properties will be seized, due to his inability to honour a commitment to pay salaries to former...
View ArticleWindwards out to dent Bajan Pride
Windward Islands, once whipping boys of West Indies cricket, will be looking to take care of Barbados Pride in the semi-finals of the 2016 Nagico Super50 cricket series at the Queen’s Park Oval in...
View ArticleBravo puts Red Force in good position
Left handed batsman Darren Bravo stroked an imperious 95 to lead T&T Red Force to a competitive score of 259 for nine in 50 overs, against Guyana in their Nagico Super50 clash at the Queen’s Park...
View ArticleNarine to line up for Queen’s Park
Embattled West Indies and Queen’s Park off-spinner Sunil Narine will play in the 2016 domestic cricket tournament in Trinidad.An executive member of the TTCB, said yesterday that Narine’s ban by the...
View ArticleFlipper ticks all boxes
Phantom Flipper ticks enough boxes to justify serious support in the Maiden Stakes over six furlongs of Chelmsford polytrack tonight and it will be a massive disappointment if Richard Hannon’s charge...
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Lewis: Intercol shaped my career
Former national team winger Leonson Lewis has given credit to the Secondary Schools Football League for helping shape his career from his early teenage days as a player.Lewis was a standout with...
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SSFL names De Leon T&T Footballer of the Half Century
Former national stand-out Leroy De Leon was named the Player of the Past Half Century in the sport of football by the Secondary Schools Football League during its 2015 awards ceremony which took place...
View ArticleEight-year-old sets indelible record
It was a memorable year for eight-year-old chess player Rayden Rampersad. The Under-8 national champion added lustre to his name not only by the breadth of his participation in the sport but, more...
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Fixing Panorama
The T&T Guardian is running a two-part series that explores the viability of the steelband movement and of the Carnival staple, Panorama. Today, music critic and analyst Nigel A Campbell looks at...
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A recession-proof Kalypso Revue
The idea and word “recession” may be on lips and minds all over the country, but it was notably absent from the Kalypso Revue tent on Saturday night at SWWTU Hall on Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain....
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Sink or swim
We’re not in a recession, we’re in denial—which might be the best mode for handling daily life in sweet T&T. So while some party poopers are adamant that the bottom has dropped out of the oil...
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QRC fete to welcome Royalty
Let me get right into our discussion. What are some of the plans for Fete Royal 2016, scheduled for Saturday evening at the college?This is the third year since we took over the reins of the fete and I...
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Steel on the Savannah
Panorama is outgrowing the Queen’s Park Savannah but there’s no alternative venue to stage this premier annual steelband competition, which was born at this venue in 1963. This and other challenges...
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Fixing Panorama: pan movement must embrace modernisation
This is the conclusion of a two-part series that explores the viability of the steelband movement and of the Carnival staple, Panorama. Today, cultural analyst and journalist Joanne Briggs looks at how...
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