- 19 July, 2025
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FOOD PRODUCTION FALLS
DESPITE Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley’s recent lofty statements on the agricultural sector, local food production has declined.
PNM READY FOR MAYARO SHOWDOWN
THE People’s National Movement (PNM) has selected its general election candidate for Mayaro, where the party considers it has a fighting chance.
The PNM has chosen Beatrice Bridgelal, a Rio Claro-based insurance underwriter and former president of the town’s business chamber.
OWTU STILL IN PETROTRIN MIX
OILFIELDS Workers’ Trade Union’s (OWTU) subsidiary Patriotic Energies still has a major stake in the reopened Petrotrin refinery.
Even after being booted out from possibly buying or leasing the Pointe-a-Pierre facility, Patriotic is well placed to be a crucial provider of labour, logistics and other supplies.
$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.