TTMA IN THE NEWS

TTMA raises thousands for flood relief

The TT Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) has collected over $70,000 in donations and over $1 million in goods – including food and cleaning supplies – from its members and the general public in aid of flood victims. Read more here

NEWS

Clean-up begins in Greenvale

The first day of ma­jor clean-up ef­forts in Green­vale, La Hor­quet­ta was al­so the first time many res­i­dents re­turned to their homes in days. Ali­cia Ed­wards was one of them who wit­nessed the ex­tent of the dam­age for the very first time, as CEPEP work­ers pulled her dam­aged fur­ni­ture from her home. She had stayed at La Hor­quet­ta com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre since Fri­day. “I couldn’t come back home so I went to work an pick up my son,” she told the T&T Guardian. Read more here

Another earthquake shakes flood-weary T&T

Trinidad and Tobago was shaken by another earthquake late Monday night. The UWI’s Seismic Research Centre recorded the magnitude 5.1 quake at 11.33p.m. It was located 10 kilometres deep 88 kilometres west southwest of Port of Spain, 91 kilometres west northwest of San Fernando and 110 east southwest of Carupano, Venezuela. Read more here

POLITICS

When it rains, it floods

While agents of the Ministry of Works and Transport, corporation workers and volunteers cleaned up in several places in the east, another downpour descended, causing flash flooding along the East-West Corridor and environs. Read more here

President: Unite to help those in need

Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes says now is not to time to as­cribe blame for the flood­ing that has tak­en place but a time to come to­geth­er and help those af­fect­ed by it. How­ev­er, when things are rec­ti­fied Weekes said cit­i­zens need to do every­thing hu­man­ly pos­si­ble to en­sure that we do not have a re­peat of the "cat­a­stroph­ic events and the chaos re­cent­ly ex­pe­ri­enced." Weekes made the state­ment in a press re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day of the dev­as­ta­tion caused by flood­ing over the week­end and the emer­gency re­sponse and re­lief ef­forts since then. The Pres­i­dent said she "looked on with mount­ing hor­ror and grave con­cern at the im­me­di­ate and af­ter-ef­fects of last week's del­uge." Read more here

BUSINESS

DeNovo gas heads to Methanol Holding

Faced with plant clo­sure due to the nat­ur­al gas short­ages and the need to keep its busi­ness run­ning in the long term, Pro­man Group in­vest­ed in the up­stream and will now be able to sup­ply 70 mil­lion stan­dard cu­bic feet a day of nat­ur­al gas through its Methanol Hold­ing plant in Point Lisas. This is a sig­nif­i­cant achieve­ment, not in terms of the rel­a­tive­ly mod­est amount of gas to be pro­vid­ed by De Ne­vo En­er­gy, but it’s the first time that a lo­cal down­stream com­pa­ny has ven­tured up­stream and, in the process, has been able to se­cure some of the gas it needs to pow­er its plants. Read more here

REGIONAL

'Policy Was Hostile, Racist' - 82-Y-O Windrush Victim Says British Gov't Attempting To Deny Caribbean People Rightful Place In History, Society

An 82-year-old Jamaican Windrush victim says that the British government's "hostile environment" immigration policy was a covert racist attempt to deny people of Caribbean heritage their rightful place in British history and society. It is a view held by Icilin Brown, who migrated to England in 1957, as many other Jamaicans had done in search of a better life, only to realise it was not what it seemed. Read more here

INTERNATIONAL

Chinese President Xi Jinping opens world's longest sea-crossing bridge

Chinese President Xi Jinping officially opened the world's longest sea-crossing bridge Tuesday at a ceremony in the southern city of Zhuhai. The $20 billion megaproject further connects mainland China with the semi-autonomous territories of Hong Kong and Macau, with a 55-kilometer (34-mile) road bridge that has been in the works for almost nine years. It's a key element of China's plan for a Greater Bay Area covering 56,500 square kilometers (21,800 square miles) of southern China, and encompassing 11 cities, including Hong Kong and Macau, that are home to a combined 68 million people. Read more here

Khashoggi murder 'planned days in advance" - Turkey's Erdogan

The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned days in advance, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told MPs from his ruling party. He said Turkey had strong evidence Khashoggi was killed in a premeditated and "savage" murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October. He also called for the suspects to be tried in Istanbul. He demanded Saudi Arabia provide answers about where Khashoggi's body was, and who ordered the operation. Read more here

23rd October 2018

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