Daily Brief - Friday 1st April, 2022
With the aim of adding capacity and increasing this country’s competitiveness within the non-energy manufacturing sector, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Paula Gopee-Scoon, has announced the approval of an Apprenticeship Programme. Read more here Read more
1st April 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 31st March, 2022
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA) on Tuesday assailed the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for failing to remove non-tariff barriers on goods, especially food being produced in the region. TTMA’s Chief Executive Officer, Mahindra Ramdeen vented his frustration at the trade bloc’s failure to create a truly single space... Read more
31st March 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 29th March, 2022
After two years of online learning because of covid19 restrictions, students at every level will be allowed back into the physical classroom in the third term of the school year, beginning April 19, the Ministry of Education has announced. Read more
29th March 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 25th 2022
The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) will be leading a physical Trade Mission to Guyana next week—28th to 31st March 2022. The delegation will be led by TTMA President Tricia Coosal. An official statement from the business lobby reports that the TTMA president will be joined by Dr. Ramesh... Read more
25th March 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 23rd March 2022
Independent Senator Amrita Deonarine called for the creation of a post of an ombudsman specifically to monitor the allocation of foreign exchange, speaking in the Senate on Tuesday. Moving a motion complaining that micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have difficulty accessing forex, she urged the Government table in Parliament... Read more
23rd March 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 22nd March, 2022
A Princes Town couple who appear to have died by suicide over the weekend left a letter to their children – a nine-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son – apologising for leaving them without parents. Shaline Ramkissoon, 38, and her common-law husband Steve "Ricky" Jugmohan, 40, died on Saturday. Read more
22nd March 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 21st March, 2022
The three pillars of victim centred engagement with survivors of gender-based violence are respect, empathy, and maintaining the dignity of the person. Human rights educator Adeola Young made the statement during a police sensitisation session on gender-based violence (GBV) facilitated by the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition, at the Coalition Against... Read more
21st March 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 18th March, 2022
Former commissioner of police (CoP) Gary Griffith has described as disgraceful the words of acting CoP Mc Donald Jacob that the police need a statement from him in order to investigate what took place with the Police Service Commission (PSC) order of merit list. Read more
18th March 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 17th March, 2022
Scotiabank TT Ltd has made several strides with respect to digital transformation during the covid19 pandemic. Managing director Gayle Pazos gave an update on the bank's digital transformation initiatives at its virtual 52nd annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday. Read more
17th March 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 16th March, 2022
The first meeting of the Anti-Illicit Trade Taskforce’s working group on tobacco discussed several priority matters key to combating the illicit trade in the item locally. In a release, the working group said these included the estimation and identification of the trade locally, current high levels of taxation and key... Read more
16th March 2022
Daily Brief - Tuesday 15th March, 2022
Hundreds of thousands of Republic Financial Holdings Ltd customers who operate businesses in the SME sector stand to benefit from a partnership between RFHL and the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA) with the intention of increasing export potential and capacity. Read more
15th March 2022
Daily Brief - Monday 14th March, 2022
Trade and Industry Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon has said the first meeting of the Anti-Illicit Trade Task Force’s working group on tobacco will take place on Monday. Speaking at the ribbon-cutting and recommissioning of the secondary manufacturing plant at the West Indian Tobacco Company (Witco), Champs Fleurs, on Friday, Gopee-Scoon said... Read more
14th March 2022
Daily Brief - Friday 11th March, 2022
A new TT $688 million e-Teck park in Pheonix Park, Savonetta is expected to be the hub for diversification, in an area that has a major port, as the country’s economy recovers from the covid19 pandemic, said Minister of Trade and Industry Paula Gopee-Scoon. Read more
11th March 2022
Daily Brief - Thursday 10th March, 2022
THA Bethel/New Grange representative pastor Terance Baynes has said pipe-borne water supplies should be restored in parts of the electoral district some time today (Thursday). A handful of angry residents held a protest around noon on Wednesday, complaining about the lack of water in the area. Read more
10th March 2022
Daily Brief - Wednesday 09th March, 2022
More than two weeks after 33-year-old Zephaniah Harripaul was kidnapped from his Chaguaramas workplace, investigators have no fresh leads as to his location. Harripaul was at his workplace Tucker Energy Services Ltd, on February 17 when he was seen being bundled into a grey or silver-coloured car. Read more
9th March 2022