- 29 May, 2025
JUST LIKE HAITI…
HEAVILY-ARMED gangsters took over police stations, setting fire to some.
That was the scene a few months ago in Haiti.
THE TTT TRAVESTY
TAXPAYERS have spent some $300 million on Trinidad and Tobago Television since the station was rebranded in late 2015.
A 2019 survey found that the broadcaster had an audience similar to Tobago’s Channel 5.
BULLYING AND THE PRIME MINISTER
IF a leader sets the moral tone of a nation, what is the ethical standard of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley?
USELESS MINISTERS
National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds remained mum, typical of his response to the orgy of crime.
Acting Prime Minister Colm Imbert characteristically responds only to matters of his Finance Ministry, especially if an expert disputes his upbeat statistics.
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.
$100 M SCANDAL AT HDC TRESTRAIL PROJECT
A SHOCKING Housing Development Corporation (HDC) report has revealed major structural defects on a key townhouse project in Arima.
The widespread collapse of the flagship Trestrail Development housing project at Arima Old Road would set back taxpayers by at least $100 million, housing experts have confirmed.
INHERITANCE TAX COULD HIT 40 PER CENT
THERE is still anxiety in the country over claims of an incoming inheritance tax despite the government’s stout denial of the political opposition’s allegations.
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.
Kids join their mothers to plead for food…
THREE children were at her feet in the light drizzle, as she held a tiny cardboard poster at a street corner pleading for money to feed her family.
COLIN POWELL’S LOVE OF SPARROW’S MUSIC
I remember the evening – it was in April, 1998, I have reconfirmed – when Colin Powell hugged and kissed Mighty Sparrow.
Powell was at the Diplomatic Centre in Port of Spain to endorse a mentoring programme and museum collection of Dr. Eric Williams, a guest of then-Prime Minister Basdeo Panday.
