Daily Brief - Wednesday 10th July, 2019
DON’T DARE think of firing Jason Holder as captain of the West Indies cricket team! That stern warning has come from the man who appointed him four years ago, Clive Lloyd, the former successful West Indies captain and chairman of selectors who believes the problem in the regional team doesn’t... Read more
10th July 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 28th June, 2019
TWO Trinidadian pupils are off to the US this week to participate in the National Youth Science Camp 2019. The US Embassy in Port of Spain, in collaboration with the National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (NIHERST), announced the pupils as Teveer Balraj of Naparima College and... Read more
28th June 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 27th June, 2019
“Positive change to eradicate negative actions” chanted Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) graduates along with Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of National Security Glenda Jennings-Smith at the CCC's graduation ceremony at the Tonia Hall, Centre of Excellence, Macoya yesterday. Read more
27th June 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 26th June, 2019
National Union of Government and Federated Workers (NUGFW) acting president general Christopher Street has expressed concern over a provision in the Miscellaneous Provisions (Local Government Reform) Bill empowering councillors to determine who will be hired. He was speaking yesterday at a media conference at NUGFW’s offices, Henry Street, Port of Spain. Read more
26th June 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 25th June, 2019
Automated passport kiosks at Piarco Airport are working. In a statement yesterday, the Airports Authority said all automated passport kiosks in the immigration hall at the airport are “fully functional” and were all operational at Piarco last Sunday. Newsday was informed that the kiosks were not working last Sunday. Read more
25th June 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 24th June, 2019
With the rising cost of food prices, the Supermarket Association president Rajiv Diptee is making it clear that they are not “price setters” but “price takers.” In a statement e-mailed to Newsday on Friday, Diptee said, “The retail food industry has noted with great consternation the rising costs of doing... Read more
24th June 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 21st June, 2019
There is a high concentration of Sahara dust present over the region and the TT Met Office has advised to take necessary precautions. Since the beginning of the dry season, the country has experienced several waves of the dust. Read more
21st June 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 18th June, 2019
Building upon its strategic goal of creating an entrepreneurial university with a diversified revenue base, The UWI, St Augustine campus last week signed a licence agreement with Lake Asphalt of Trinidad and Tobago to commercialise two asphalt-based products developed by The UWI – “UWI Plastic Cement” and “UWI Primer.” “For... Read more
18th June 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 17th June, 2019
The TT Met Office has issued an Adverse Weather Alert #1 (Yellow Level) for Monday and warned of flooding, landslips and gusty winds. The warning is from 2 am to 3 pm. Read more here Read more
17th June 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 14th June, 2019
Data is critically important in order to analyse properly what is happening in various sectors, but, economist Dr Terrence Farrell said yesterday, this country has a culture of not wanting to give information. Farrell presented his report on the downstream sector of TT at the National Academy for the Performing... Read more
14th June 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 13th June, 2019
Proposed pension increases greed’ Read more
13th June 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 11th June, 2019
New Zealand is not one of this country’s major trade partners, nor is it a significant aid donor to this country or other Caricom states, yet cooperation between the two and other small island states have a global impact on issues such as combating the effects of climate change. Read more
11th June 2019
Daily Brief- Monday 10th June, 2019
Trinidad and Tobago’s anticipated hosting of the 14th Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) got underway with the staging of an exclusive Road Show at South Park Shopping Centre in San Fernando recently. Scores of patrons from the bustling hub were privy to experience an early taste of CARIFESTA which has,... Read more
10th June 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 6th June, 2019
This country generates an estimated 750,000 tonnes of waste annually, with more than 80 per cent of it being recyclable. This was revealed by chairman of the Environmental Management Authority (EMA), Nadra Nathai-Gyan, in a release on Tuesday to coincide with yesterday's observation of World Environment Day. Read more
6th June 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 4th June, 2019
The Green Fund is vastly underutilised. This is the contention of Senior Technical Officer, Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), Anna Cadiz-Hadeed, who was one of the presenters at the recent Tobago Environmental Partnership Conference. Cadiz-Hadeed’s presentation assessed the contributions of civil society organisations in fulfilling the objectives of the Multilateral... Read more
4th June 2019