- 5 May, 2025
REPUBLIC HEADS FOR RECORD $2 B PROFIT
REPUBLIC Bank is heading for a record-shattering $2 billion profit in the current year.
The commercial bank has just reported a three-month profit of $503 million.
T&T’S JOBLESS RATE SHAM
Imbert bragging about low joblessness is an indication of how out of touch the authorities are with the harsh realities on the ground.
IMBERT’S RINSE-AND-REPEAT BUDGET
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert’s four-hour 2024 Budget had more repeated promises than any other fiscal package in Trinidad and Tobago’s modern history.
IMBERT’S MISSING $11 M
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert has told the nation that the recent Caricom talks in Trinidad and Tobago cost $9 million.
But the government had allocated $20 million for that event.
CALL IT ‘MR. BAIGAN’
BAIGAN – eggplant to my urban friends – is now going at $20 for a single pound, the equivalent of half of a URP worker’s daily wage. Just the other day, baigan was being retailed at $10, which is also big money for the hundreds of thousands who, according to a Central Bank study, are under the poverty threshold.
RAMBARRAN CARRIES A TORCH FOR VICTIMS OF POLITICAL SPITE
Jwala Rambarran’s telling legal victory against wrongful dismissal as Central Bank Governor by the Rowley administration resonates for the legions of victims of political spite and malice.
Budget promise first made in 2008
THE current People’s National Movement (PNM) Government stole a promise from a previous administration of the same party in the 2022-23 national Budget.
What Rowley did not say…
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley is not giving the full story on the urgent matter of road repairs.
MAMAGUYING THE SMALL MAN
Within months of getting into office, the Rowley Government gave a US $5 million taxpayer-funded loan to a paper-converting company, a unit of a multinational group. The aim, according to Finance Minister Colm Imbert, was to save jobs.
PROCUREMENT REGULATOR FACES THE AXE
THE days of Procurement Regulator Moonilal Lalchan are numbered. The Government is running down the clock to have Lalchan replaced at the end of his contract, in two years’ time.
