NEWS
My healthy child is now dead
With the nation's attention turned to deaths linked to the H1N1 flu virus (swine flu) and the threat posed by the Zika virus, comes news of the death from dengue of a 16-year-old girl. Navita Mahabir is the first to have died this year as a result of dengue, which, like Zika, is carried and can be transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Read more…
HELLO FROM THE INSIDE
PRISONERS can now legally make telephone calls from behind bars to their relatives, friends and associates via a new telecommunications system installed at the Remand Section of the Golden Grove Prison in Arouca. To access the service would cost $400 per month for each inmate. Read more…
Carnival king designer blasts Minshall’s mas: That’s ridiculous
cclaimed mas designer Peter Minshall’s return to Carnival after an over decade long hiatus has been marred in controversy after several veteran mas designers criticised his Carnival king costume — The Dying Swan, Ras Nijinsky in Drag as Pavlova — on Tuesday night. Read more…
POLITICS
The best thing PNM has done in 50 years
RESIDENTS of the Sogren Trace, Laventille community lauded the recent action by the Ministry of National Security, saying that the recent visits and the presence of Regiment and police was the best thing the PNM has done in 50 years.The adulation was given to Minister of National Security when he visited the Sogren Trace community yesterday, weeks after two school boys were shot dead in the area. Read more…
Police Association seeks clarity on Glenda’s role
The Police Service Social and Welfare Association is seeking clarity from Government on how its new three dimensional leadership structure in the National Security Ministry will interact with the daily operations of the Police Service.“While Government’s three-member National Security team is welcome, the new configuration needs to tread carefully concerning potential erosion of the role of the Police Commissioner and Police Service Commission (PSC),” association head Anand Ramesar said yesterday. Read more…
SOS to Jennifer
THE Steel Workers Union of Trinidad and Tobago (SWUTT) has written to Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus seeking her intervention in the matter in which Point Lisas-based steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal yesterday laid off 498 workers without pay until March 13.The decision was triggered by poor international market conditions in the steel industry, resulting in the company not having any orders for its steel products, the company stated. Read more…
BUSINESS
Trini elected to EITI International Board
CHAIRMAN of the multi - stakeholde r group steering committee of the Trinidad and Tobago Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (TTEITI), Victor Hart, has been elected to the EITI International Board of Directors for the Americas and Europe.Hart was elected by a wide margin over candidates from Colombia, Peru, Honduras and Albania for a place on the 2016-19 EITI Board. Read more…
VAT problems? Call this hotline
The Consumer Affairs Division of the Ministry of Trade and Industry has set up VAT Hotline for the convenience of consumers and to answer queries on the revised Value Added Tax (V.A.T.) regime – 800-4277. Read more…
Inglefield to chair IOM
Former ANSA McAL executive David Inglefield has been appointed as the chairman of Inglefield/Ogilvy & Mather (IOM) Caribbean, the local full-service communications company. Read more…
REGIONAL
10 reasons you shouldn’t cancel your Caribbean trip over Zika
The spread of the Zika virus in the Americas, including countries in the Caribbean, and the possible link to birth defects such as microcephaly (babies with small heads) have left many people – especially pregnant women – wondering whether they should cancel their holidays to the region. Read more...
OAS mission says stakeholder discussions in Haiti at a delicate stage
The Organization of American States (OAS) special mission currently in Haiti says that “the discussions between the Haitian stakeholders are at a very delicate and urgent stage amid the political situation that now faces the country with the imminent departure from office of President Michel Martelly on February 7”. Read more…
INTERNATIONAL
Someone nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize nominees: The Greek island groups welcoming Syrian refugees, an escaped ISIS sex slave turned women's rights activist, the negotiators who ended five decades of civil war in Colombia, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.Oh, and Donald Trump. Read more…
Syria civil war: Leaders in new plea for massive refugee aid
4th February 2016