Daily Brief - Wednesday 30th January, 2019
Amid the uncertainty of the Venezuela political crisis came news in the Senate yesterday that the Government had on Monday closed the Cedros Port because of an overflowing cesspit. In reply to a question from Opposition Senator Wade Mark, Minister of National Security Stuart Young confirmed the port was closed... Read more
30th January 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 29th January, 2019
The country’s rice industry is “on the brink of total collapse”, National Rice Farmers Association head David Paponette yesterday told Parliament’s Joint Select Committee (JSC) on State Enterprises chaired by Anthony Vieira. The committee heard no-one wants to buy the Carlsen Field rice mill because of a drastic drop in... Read more
29th January 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 28th January, 2019
The “true objectives” of those countries opposed to current Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is to “control the vast resources” of the South American country. The Cuban government, in a media statement issued by its embassy in TT on Saturday, said it also “condemns and energetically rejects the attempt to impose... Read more
28th January 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 25th January, 2019
Police said a total of 12 cars were stolen for the year thus far at gunpoint and all were recovered over the past two weeks, thanks to an aggressive campaign launched by the Criminal Investigations Division (CID) and the Police Stolen Vehicles Squad. Read more
25th January 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 24th January, 2019
Director and founder of the Living Water Community Rhonda Maingot on Tuesday night received the Franco-German Award for Civil Society Action, for her decades of philanthropy and charity work for socially displaced people in TT. Speaking at a handing-over ceremony at his Scott Street, St Clair, home, German ambassador Holgen... Read more
24th January 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 23rd January, 2019
Despite a cut in allocation of funding for regional Carnivals throughout the country, their development remained very important says Darian Marcelle of the National Carnival Commission (NCC). Marcelle said, over the years, there had been complaints from people living in rural TT that they were alienated from the festival since... Read more
23rd January 2019
Daily Brief - Tuesday 22nd January, 2019
Ten years after six men were arrested and charged with the murder of Cepep worker Russell Antoine, they accepted that their case had to be restarted before acting Chief Magistrate Maria Busby Earle-Caddle yesterday morning. Chicki Portillo, Anton Cambridge, Levi Joseph, Akini James, Israel Lara and Kareem Gomez appeared before... Read more
22nd January 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 21st January, 2019
The TT Manufacturers Association (TTMA) is open to discussions with the Health Ministry about a sugar tax. At a public hearing of Parliament’s Social Services and Public Administration Joint Select Committee on Wednesday, Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram said the ministry was considering this tax as one method to... Read more
21st January 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 18th January, 2019
Directors have been named for the boards Heritage Petroleum Company Ltd, Paria Fuel Trading Company and Guaracara Refining Company Ltd. These three companies were formed as part of the restructuring of state oil company Petrotrin last year. Read more
18th January 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 17th January, 2019
Despite the financial shutdown of the US Government, the US Embassy in Port of Spain will continue to process US visa applications, according to embassy postings on social media. The US embassy’s website contains a statement from last December that says: “The United States of America is currently in a... Read more
17th January 2019
Daily Brief - Wednesday 16th January, 2019
Activist and past president of the Joint Consultative Council for the Construction Industry, Afra Raymond, has said the abrupt way the Tobago Sandals project was stopped has cost TT a “true learning experience.” “I do not think that it is a good thing that the project was stopped and in... Read more
16th January 2019
Daily Brief - 15th January 2019
Almost two years after it was discovered that the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board misallocated almost $3 million in funding from the NGC, and six months after the NGC requested the TTCB to repay that money forthwith, the two bodies are still working on a way forward. Read more… Read more
15th January 2019
Daily Brief - Monday 14th January, 2019
AMCHAM T&T CEO Nirad Tewarie said the time has come for the Equal Opportunities Act to be amended to end legal discrimination against the LGBTQI community. Tewarie was responding to adverse comments from RebuildTT which condemned statements made by his father Caroni Central MP Dr Bhoe Tewarie in support of... Read more
14th January 2019
Daily Brief - Friday 11th January, 2019
Repairs at the Point Lisas desalination plant were completed last Sunday and production returned to the contracted flow of 40 million gallons of water per day (mgd). The plant had to be closed last week Friday, the second closure in four weeks, which saw many residents in Central and South... Read more
11th January 2019
Daily Brief - Thursday 10th January, 2019
Local farmers were being trained and prepared to have their fresh produce exported to the US says National Agricultural Marketing and Development Corporation (Namdevco) CEO Nirmalla Debysingh-Persad. She was speaking yesterday as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) examined the audited accounts of Namdevco for the period 2008-2011 during a meeting... Read more
10th January 2019