- 26 May, 2025
LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS
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.”
NIS GOING BUST BUT…
THE National Insurance System – working people’s social welfare programme – is going bust.
T&T FALLOFF FROM $B VENE CORRUPTION SCANDAL
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.
FARIS FALTERS AGAIN
FAST-TALKING Government Minister Faris Al Rawi is continuing to tumble from political grace.
MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR CORRUPTION WILD GOOSE CHASE
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.
STILL NO HEADWAY IN DRAGON GAS DEAL
JUST as CounterpunchTT reported, the Keith Rowley Government has come up empty-handed in talks with Venezuela over the Dragon gas field.
Why Dragon deal stalled…
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.
PM BLOWING HOT AIR ON WIND FARM
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.”
T&T at centre of high-stakes diplomatic and trade war…
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.
WHAT T&T IS MISSING OUT FROM INDIA
Guyana’s and Suriname’s Presidents Dr. Irfaan Ali and Chandrikapersad Santokhi respectively are strengthening economic ties and boosting friendships with the Asian powerhouse.
