NEWS
Introduce parenting classes in schools
Children should be taught the basics of parenting while at school, suggests president of the National Primary School Principal Association Lance Mottley. In an address at the National Parent Teacher Association’s interfaith service on Friday, Mottley said, “The reality is our children go on to become parents, some, even before completing school. (Parenting classes) will ensure that good parenting values are passed on to our children and they, in turn, will incaulcate acceptable social values and attitudes in their children.” Read more here
Gasparillo businesses tense as Petrotrin closure nears
Petrotrin will officially shut down its operations on November 30 following a massive restructuring exercise which will see new entities taking over the business it once conducted thereafter, beginning today, the T&T Guardian will look at how this will impact some of the communities surrounding the refinery, starting with Gasparillo. Businesses in fence-line communities such as Gasparillo, Marabella, Maucaulay, Cocoyea and Claxton Bay are bracing for reduced sales, fewer customers and tough days ahead with the full closure of Petrotrin this month-end. Read more here
84-year-old gets degree
As eighty-four-year-old Curtis Thomas was handed his Bachelor of Arts degree yesterday his peers mostly in their 20s and early 30s almost shook the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) with cheers, applause and shrieks. Read more here
POLITICS
Duke says no zero increase
Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke is disputing a “nauseous conversation” which, he said, is being circulated on social media, that public officers are being offered “zero-zero-zero” by the Finance Ministry. In a Facebook live message yesterday, Duke said a zero per cent offer had been made earlier in the year but this had been withdrawn by the Chief Personnel Officer (CPO). Read more here
Report labels T&T 12th dangerous country Young: Where’s the proof?
National Security Minister Stuart Young is questioning what data the authors of an online report which ranked this country as 12th on a list of the world’s 20 most dangerous countries in the world used. On Friday, a publication in the Business Insider gave T&T the ranking after noting that murders, domestic violence and sexual assaults were on the increase in T&T. But Young yesterday disagreed with the report. “I certainly don’t think we rank 12th as the most dangerous countries in the world. That is my opinion and living here etcetera. Read more here
BUSINESS
NGL rises, NFM declines
This week, we at Bourse review the nine-month performance of Trinidad and Tobago NGL Ltd (NGL) and National Flour Mills Ltd (NFM). Read more here
REGIONAL
Editors' Forum | We Need Help, Too! - Young Businesswoman Laments Lack Of Gov't Support For Creative Entrepreneurs
One young business owner believes that the Government can do more to foster the growth of industries that some may consider unsustainable. Shawneil Bailey, founder and managing director of people management service company, Zarabelle Limited, said that increased assistance from the Government could help people to see that talent-management and other creative industries are feasible. "The problem we have here in Jamaica is that a lot of people don't see the creative industry as sustainable. They come in, they leave because they don't feel like they can grow from there. If the Government was assisting us, then that would make persons want to tap into the industry," said Bailey, who is a member of the most recent cohort of the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI). Read more here
INTERNATIONAL
Exclusive: Khashoggi sons issue emotional appeal for the return of their father's body
The sons of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi issued an emotional appeal for the return of their father's body, in their first interview since he was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul a month ago. Salah and Abdullah Khashoggi, who called their father "courageous, generous and very brave," said they have endured weeks of anguish and uncertainty following his disappearance and death. "I really hope that whatever happened wasn't painful for him, or it was quick. Or he had a peaceful death," Abdullah Khashoggi, 33, told CNN during a sit-down interview in Washington with his brother, Salah, 35. Read more here
Iran sanctions: Rouhani defiant as US re-imposes measures
5th November 2018