THE Government is insisting there is full employment in Trinidad and Tobago.
Finance Minister Colm Imbert declared a few days ago that “the unemployment rate decreased to 4.7 per cent in 2022.”
THE fall of Venezuela’s powerful Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami in a billion-dollar corruption scandal is expected to have a major impact on Trinidad and Tobago.
THIS is a Cabinet Note on granting $66.3 million of taxpayer funds to three British firms to urgently hunt down corrupt figures. The matter went to Cabinet on July 24, 2020.
THE lack of diplomatic skills in the Keith Rowley Administration is the reason there is no action on the billion-dollar Dragon Field natural gas project. The Government is in the second round of shuttle diplomacy in Caracas after Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro rebuffed the limited lifting of sanctions to monetise the field.
PRIME MINISTER Dr. Keith Rowley’s plan for a wind farm may be just a lot of hot air. That is because a University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) study has deflated such a project as “not an environmentally feasible option.”
THE Rowley Government’s increasing chumminess with China was a critical factor in the United States freeing up the Venezuelan offshore gas field. Trinidad and Tobago’s “comprehensive partnership” with China, which includes major commercial investments, was a prime consideration in the US handing out the big plum of licensing the Dragon gas field.
Guyana’s and Suriname’s Presidents Dr. Irfaan Ali and Chandrikapersad Santokhi respectively are strengthening economic ties and boosting friendships with the Asian powerhouse.