NEWS

Ysabel still a winner for Trinis

Miss World TT, Ysabel Bisnath, did not make it into the top 30 of the 2018 Miss World pageant in Sanya, China yesterday, but many Trinis still believe she is a winner. Barbados and Jamaica made it into the top 30 with Jamaica’s Kadijah Robinson getting into the top five and winning Miss World Continental for the Caribbean. Miss Mexico Vanessa Ponce de Leon won the Miss World crown. The social media platform, Facebook, was abuzz yesterday with both congratulations and disappointment for Bisnath. Read more here

Angostura awards champions

Ko­riel­la Es­pinoza has been de­clared the first ever An­gos­tu­ra Cham­pi­on at an awards cer­e­mo­ny which was held at the House of An­gos­tu­ra, East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille, on De­cem­ber 7. The House of An­gos­tu­ra an­nounced five fi­nal­ists for its in­au­gur­al An­gos­tu­ra Cham­pi­ons Award for Com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice—Christo­pher Den­nis, El­speth Dun­can, Don­ald McLean James, Frank Ed­wards, and Ko­riel­la Es­pinoza. Launched this year, An­gos­tu­ra Cham­pi­ons is an an­nu­al awards pro­gramme ini­ti­at­ed by the com­pa­ny to cel­e­brate in­di­vid­u­als who per­form out­stand­ing com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice and work to­ward im­prov­ing the lives of oth­ers in T&T. The awards pro­gramme aims to show­case the cho­sen cham­pi­on's ex­cep­tion­al con­tri­bu­tions to so­ci­ety thus en­cour­ag­ing a sense of ser­vice. Read more here

POLITICS

Health Ministry launches awareness campaign on lifestyle diseases

IN an attempt to move citizens away from an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthier one, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said the ministry is working on another step to reduce the incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCD) like diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. Addressing the media Friday at the launch of TT Moves, an awareness campaign addressing NCDs, at the Brian Lara Promenade, Port of Spain, Deyalsingh said those who suffer from NCDs end up in hospitals, clogging the accident and emergency departments. He said Friday’s event is a continuation of a plan the ministry launched earlier this year to get this country to move from an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthier one. Read more here

No let-up from Devant

There is no let-up on Gov­ern­ment from De­vant Ma­haraj. Now the UNC ac­tivist has re­leased Com­mu­ni­ca­tion/Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s cell num­ber and urged peo­ple to call Young. And he in­tends to re­lease all PNM gov­ern­ment min­is­ters’ num­bers, “...Be­cause they have to ac­count to the pub­lic. Peo­ple can’t wait ‘til elec­tion,” Ma­haraj told the Guardian yes­ter­day. Read more here

BUSINESS

SBTT, FCI report lower earnings

This week, we at Bourse review the financial performance of the two Canadian-owned banking giants listed on the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange (TTSE), Scotiabank Trinidad and Tobago Ltd (SBTT) and FirstCaribbean International Bank Ltd (FCI). Read more here

REGIONAL

Get The Cash - Ashley Urges Holness To Name Beneficiaries, Recover Millions Improperly Spent At Petrojam

Prime Minister Andrew Holness should publicly name all the individuals, entities, and consultants that collected millions of dollars "they were not entitled to" from the state-owned oil refinery Petrojam and use all legal and persuasive means to have the funds repaid, one political commentator has suggested. Further, Paul Ashley believes that those who refuse to repay should be blacklisted from ever being employed in the public sector. "You can't benefit from corruption and keep on benefiting. Everybody is talking about corruption. I am into naming the beneficiaries," Ashley told The Gleaner yesterday. Read more here

INTERNATIONAL

Jailed Huawei executive will learn her fate Monday as China demands her release

China's anger is growing over the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive wanted by the United States. What happens next will be decided Monday by a Canadian court. Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has been detained in Vancouver since December 1 and faces extradition to the United States. She's accused of helping Huawei, one of the world's biggest makers of smartphones and networking equipment, dodge US sanctions on Iran, according to Canadian prosecutors. The arrest of Meng, the daughter of Huawei's founder, has put a new strain on the tense relationship between Washington and Beijing just as the two sides are trying to negotiate an end to their damaging trade war. It has also highlighted the intensifying clash over technologybetween the world's top two economies. Read more here

Brexit ruling: UK can cancel decision, EU court says

The European Court of Justice has ruled the UK can cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members. The ECJ judges ruled this could be done without altering the terms of Britain's membership. A group of anti-Brexit politicians argued the UK should be able to unilaterally halt Brexit, but they were opposed by the government and EU. The decision comes a day before MPs are due to vote on Theresa May's deal for leaving the EU. MPs are already widely expected to reject the proposals during a vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday night. There is also speculation the vote could be delayed, with a government source telling the BBC cabinet ministers may be asked by No 10 to take part in an emergency conference call later. Read more here

10th December 2018

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