- 9 June, 2025
SHIP TALK FROM TOURISM AGENCY
THE 21,000 cruise ship arrivals in Trinidad and Tobago this year is a mere drop in the bucket of 19.2 million such tourists in the Caribbean.
Trinidad Tourism Ltd., the State agency, said the arrivals were 81 per cent higher than that last year.
MACHEL, WODEMAYA AND HASELY
IN a land of declining educational standards, Machel “Mr. Fete” Montano has set a positive tone in skipping Carnival 2024 to focus on his studies.
EGG ON ROWLEY’S FACE
But mere days before the Prime Minister and his ministerial sidekicks headed to the talks, he had pronounced that there was no role for mediation in the territorial dispute between both countries.
WHY ROWLEY IS TIPTOEING AROUND MADURO
In addition to bragging rights, a Dragon Gas deal would allow the Prime Minister to offer hope, that political abstract that voters clutch onto.
NEW FINANCIAL SCANDALS AT ADB
THERE are raging concerns about “questionable payments” of large sums of money and a lack of proper tendering procedures at the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB).
SCANDALOUS REMOVAL OF INDUSTRIAL COURT PRESIDENT
LABOUR relations have lost a jurist of competence and fairplay with the shock removal of Deborah Thomas-Felix as President of the Industrial Court.
In her 12-year stint at the labour court, Ms. Thomas-Felix distinguished herself with her aptitude, objectivity and audacity.
ERIC IN 1975: VENEZUELA WANTS T&T’S OFFSHORE ISLANDS
IN 1975, six years before he died, then-Prime Minister Dr. Eric Williams warned that Venezuela wanted to recolonise parts of the Caribbean, including Trinidad and Tobago.
Williams said that Venezuela was seeking to extend its territorial borders and that it was eyeing T&T’s offshore islands and several other areas of the Caribbean.
BUYERS’ REMORSE
The employees of the protective services are grumbling that the token salary increases are a huge disincentive, especially since they are each working in difficult circumstances.
EMPTY BELLIES FOR CHRISTMAS
TENS of thousands of people in Trinidad and Tobago would not enjoy the goodies of the Christmas season.
A large number of children would go without seasonal foods, toys and the popular treats of this happy time of the year.
THE GREAT CRIME HYPOCRISY
TALKS between the Government and Opposition are not necessary to avert the spate of home invasions.
Same with other crimes – homicides, robberies, assaults, kidnappings, et al.
