- 13 June, 2025
OUTRAGE OVER ROWLEY’S PETROTRIN PLANS
THREE bidders for Petrotrin are outraged at plans to offer the operations to a giant corporation from India.
The bidders include a company owned by the family of a longstanding PNM-friendly industrialist.
EXTORTIONS ON THE RISE
Demanding money by menace is now commonplace throughout the country, especially in outlying business districts like Chaguanas, Couva, Sangre Grande, Penal, Fyzabad, San Juan, and Princes Town.
T&T’S WEALTH GAP EXPANDS
WHILE the masses are engaged in another round of political bantering, the elite corporate class has added to their already bountiful wealth.
The nation’s upper crust has expanded the huge divide between rich and poor in increasing their vast prosperity.
OWTU IN THIRD BID FOR PETROTRIN
OILFIELDS Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) is working on a third bid to operate the mothballed Petrotrin refinery.
OWTU is currently negotiating with financial and technical partners to submit a proposal within the next few weeks.
QUIET MOVES TO APPOINT NEW TSTT BOSSES
THE Board of Directors of Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) is quietly moving to appoint senior executives while an enquiry into last October’s cyber-attack scandal is still incomplete.
MYSTERY MAN IN DRAGON GAS DEAL
A MYSTERY man is a big operative in a secret company formed by the Rowley Government to manage the Dragon Gas deal.
His name is Joseph Khan, and no one knows him in the energy sector.
COLLAPSE OF DRAGON GAS AND THE WHOLE BLINKING MARKET
The Venezuelan Supreme Court, which Maduro controls, has blocked opposition presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from contesting the election, which is due this year.
‘SCROOGE’ IMBERT RUINS CHRISTMAS FOR IMPORTERS
Blame is being heaped on Finance Minister Colm Imbert, who has ministerial responsibility for the division and who was alerted several weeks ago about the worsening problem.
Why is TSTT’s CEO still on the job?
In most cases, there is a loss of confidence in the most senior official of the affected organisation.
Agard, who previously headed PNM propaganda station TTT, is unaffected in the post and appears to merely have to ride out the brief public uproar.
THE WAR ON SMALL BUSINESS
SMALL business is an endangered species in Trinidad and Tobago.
The number of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME) is now estimated at less than two-thirds of what existed before the Covid-19 shutdown.
