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- 19 September, 2024
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$36.6 M SPENT ON PETROTRIN SINCE SHUTDOWN
TAXPAYERS have spent $36.6 million in under six years to preserve the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery.
It is costing $500,000 a month to keep the mothballed plant intact.
PNM FURY OVER STUART YOUNG
OUTRAGE is boiling in the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) over Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley’s determined plan to foist Stuart Young as the next political leader.
PETROTRIN TAKEOVER: NIGERIAN FIRM IN $$ CRISIS
THE favoured contender to take over Petrotrin is being stalled by a major financing setback.
Nigeria-based Oando PLC, a debt-ridden energy firm, is seeking to raise capital from the African Import-Export Bank (Afreximbank), but the process is frustrated by legal issues.
BAD MATHS, KAMLA
KAMLA Persad-Bissessar should not take basket that she is sailing to general election victory on the basis of last year’s local polls result.
That is fool’s gold.
PNM INVADES UNC’S HEARTLAND
IN a stunning political manoeuvre, Acting Prime Minister Stuart Young has entered the heartland and religious frontier of the United National Congress (UNC).
FOOD PRICE COMMITTEE IS ELECTION GIMMICK
THE Government is facing stinging criticisms of barefaced election gimmickry with the appointment of a Food Security and Food Prices Committee.
OROPOUCHE VIRUS STRIKES
A GLOBAL medical virus with a distinctive Trinidad and Tobago name has turned deadly in this part of the world.
IMBERT RAIDS RAINY DAY FUND
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert has withdrawn the net sum of an astounding US $2.3 billion (about TT $15.7 billion) from the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF).
NEW WASA CEO TO SEND HOME 3,000 WORKERS
THE Water and Sewerage Authority’s (WASA) incoming Chief Executive Officer Keithroy Halliday has an urgent mandate to slash the annual $1.6 billion taxpayer subsidy.
NGC CONTRACTORS FRUSTRATED OVER PAY DELAY
CONTRACTORS and suppliers at National Gas Company (NGC) are expressing frustration over the time they are forced to wait for payments.