NEWS
$3 million to audit LifeSport bobol
Four local accounting firms are charging TT $3million to carry out an audit of the controversial Life Sport Programme set up under the previous administration which was the brain child of former Minister of Sport Anil Roberts. Newsday understands that the four firms have sent proposals to the Acting Police Commissioner each charging an estimated $3million to carry out the audit. Read more…
Changes made to $50 note to help visually impaired
Unannounced changes to the appearance of the $50 note sparked counterfeiting fears on social media yesterday. But the Central Bank says the changes were made to assist the visually-impaired and update of the latest polymer currency. On several social media posts yesterday, various users shared photos of the bills noting a difference in text and colour claiming that it was being duplicated by fraudsters. Read more…
POLITICS
Padarath: UNC tormented me
United National Congress (UNC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Princes Town Barry Padarath said he was tormented by members of his own party and not the Peoples’ National Movement (PNM) during the run-up to the September 7 general elections. He made the disclosure before a packed house in his brief address to supporters at a meeting held in Barrackpore in support of Team UNC led by former Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Read more…
Rowley hails Scotland vote: A victory for the Caribbean
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who openly supported Sir Ronald Sanders for Commonwealth Secretary General, yesterday congratulated Baroness Patricia Scotland who copped the post. Scotland, the Dominican candidate is the sixth Commonwealth Secretary General and is the first woman to hold this post. She replaces Kamalesh Sharma of India. Her parents were from Dominica. Sanders had the backing of eight other Caricom countries. There had been numerous calls across the region for her to drop out of the race. Read more…
BUSINESS
JobsTT’s year in online recruitment
The growing popularity of jobsTT is based on an invested approach to social media. jobsTT.com is an online recruitment platform dedicated to creating more value for employers and Jobseekers, by providing them with innovative tools and an engaging experience. Now celebrating one year in the online recruitment sector since their entry in November last year, jobsTT draws from its partner network and technology expertise to offer more than just a CV database. Read more…
REGIONAL
New ECCB governor not yet appointed
No new governor yet – that’s the word from the Eastern Caribbean Monetary Council. Council chairman, Anguilla’s Chief Minister Victor Banks, has denied reports that a Saint Lucian individual has been selected to replace Sir Dwight Venner, the outgoing governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), who will demit office at the end of this month. Banks told WINN FM on Friday that that was simply not true. Read more…
Halt To Baby Burials - Dalley Asks If Mothers Still Want State To Dispose Of Bodies
There was no State-sanctioned burial of any babies on the weekend, even though the necessary paperwork was in place to facilitate such an endeavour, Health Minister Horace Dalley has revealed. Dalley told The Gleaner last night that media reports to that effect were triggered by the collection of some 65 bodies of babies, most of whom were stillborn, from the morgue of the Kingston Public Hospital. Brown's Funeral Home, in keeping with its standing arrangement with the Government, collected the bodies on Friday, but none of them have been buried yet, the minister insisted. Read more…
INTERNATIONAL
Climate change: Why you should pay attention to the COP21 summit in Paris
In Paris, world leaders are fretting over 2 degrees Celsius. Sound like a trivial pursuit? No. It's huge. That rise in average global temperatures would put us in a world never before known in recorded history. The potential consequences? Think of a dystopic desert out of "Mad Max." That 4-year extreme drought parching California? Try a 20-year megadrought drying out about eight states, desperate fights for drinking water and forest fires eight times the size of current ones. Mad about hunters killing rhinos and lions? How will you feel watching animals and plants go extinct like falling dominoes? Crops failing; waves of refugees driven out of coastal cities by rising seas, begging for shelter and food? Read more…
Pope Francis: 'Christians and Muslims are brothers'
30th November 2015