Daily Brief - Friday 15th July, 2022
A high-ranking executive at a leading accounting firm has suggested that the current value of the Trinidad and Tobago dollar might be having a negative impact on the country's ability to do trade and attract foreign investment outside of the energy sector. Read more
15th July 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 14th July, 2022
There is growing nervousness among medical professionals about the lifting of mask mandates both locally and regionally, with the growing presence of the omicron BA.5 variant in the Americas. CMO Dr Roshan Parasram said the BA.5 variant had been detected among 20 samples sent for genomic testing at the University... Read more
14th July 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 13th July, 2022
One of the defendants in the Piarco 2 inquiry is seeking to block the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) from filing indictments directly in the High Court for the decade-old charges. usinessman Steve Ferguson has appealed two rulings of a High Court judge in 2019 and 2022 as it relates... Read more
13th July 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 12th July, 2022
President of the TT Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) Tricia Coosal had a virtual meeting last week with Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Farley Augustine to discuss strengthening ties between the two organisations. Atthe TTMA’s 2019 Annual Meeting held in April 2020, the association changed its by-laws to... Read more
12th July 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 11th July, 2022
THA Secretary of Health, Wellness and Social Production Dr Faith BYisrael says new plans for the distribution of food cards within Tobago are in the works. During Friday’s virtual post-Executive Council media briefing, BYisrael said there is a new policy on the distribution of food cards issued by the assembly. Read more
11th July 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 8th July, 2022
The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) has signed agreements to provide selected students with a total of $240,000 in bursaries to pursue studies in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) at the State's three tertiary-level education institutions. Read more
8th July 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 7th July, 2022
Standard three students from 17 primary schools under the Penal Debe Regional Corporation (PDRC) participated in an art competition and received high praises on Wednesday for their creativity. A total of 83 students painted clay pots in two categories — Water and Earth Element and Let Your Imagination Run Wild. Read more
7th July 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 5th July, 2022
First Citizens Financial Holding Group Ltd CEO Karen Darbasie says staff from First Citizens Brokerage Advisory Services will be in Tobago from next week to open accounts for people interested in purchasing shares in the bank’s recently announced additional public offering (APO). Read more
5th July 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 4th July, 2022
Signal Hill Secondary’s J’Nae Brathwaite is the 2022 Tobago Tourism Youth Congress Junior Secretary. The annual debate competition featured eight participants discussing innovative ideas on improving the tourism industry. Brathwaite, who earned 375 points, will represent Tobago at the 2022 Caribbean Tourism Youth Congress, in the Cayman Islands, from September 12-15. Read more
4th July 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 1st July, 2022
The council of the Law Association (LATT) on Thursday cleared Minister in the Office of the Attorney General Renuka Sagramsingh-Sooklal of the Opposition's allegations of possibly trying to influence the future decisions of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) over the Piarco airport corruption case, known as Piarco 1. Read more
1st July 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 30th June, 2022
This country was spared the brunt of the tropical wave which increased wind speeds and slammed into Grenada on Tuesday. Speaking on I95 FM on Wednesday morning, CEO of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) Maj Gen Rodney Smart emphasised how much the country should be grateful for. Read more
30th June 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 29th June, 2022
After a tension-filled day, the tropical storm warning for Trinidad and Tobago has been discontinued. In a statement shortly after 11 pm Tuesday, the Met Office revised its orange-level alert to yellow, an adverse weather status to monitor weather conditions. Read more
29th June 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 28th June, 2022
All schools have been ordered shut and several flights cancelled as a tropical storm veers directly towards Trinidad and Tobago. The latest advisory from the Met Service at 5 am on Tuesday put the storm just 680 kilometres east of TT. Read more
28th June 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 27th June, 2022
Leading business stakeholders – the American Chamber of Commerce (AmchamTT), TT Chamber of Industry and Commerce, TT Manufacturers Association and the TT Transparency Institute – are of the view the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Act, 2015, can be proclaimed and fully implemented before the reading of the... Read more
27th June 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 24th June, 2022
By next week Friday, the Kiss Baking Company will raise the price of its products by an average of 11 per cent, it said in a statement on Thursday. Kiss said the National Flour Mills (NFM) on Tuesday had announced a 33 per cent rise in the wholesale price of... Read more
24th June 2022