- 14 April, 2025
MINISTERS IN CONFLICT AS TREASURY GOING BROKE!
The Government is going broke, even with a $59.7 annual budget.
Open conflicts are breaking out among ministers over their inability to fund ongoing projects or launch announced ventures.
PRE-ELECTION LAUNCHES FOR BIG PROJECTS
THE Government has put an opening date for the $1.2 billion Central Block of Port of Spain General Hospital although the project is incomplete.
A major commissioning ceremony is planned for Friday March 28 even as workers are racing to complete the major venture.
WHY KANGALOO BLANKED VISIT TO INDIA
PRESIDENT Christine Kangaloo did not travel to accept a recent award from India because of concerns she may have to step into the current prime ministerial issue.
JUST LIKE HAITI…
HEAVILY-ARMED gangsters took over police stations, setting fire to some.
That was the scene a few months ago in Haiti.
IMBERT TO QUIT?
POLITICAL veteran Colm Imbert may back out of the upcoming general election in another instance of the changing of the guards in the PNM.
If the Member of Parliament for Diego Martin North-East declines to face the polls, he will follow Fitzgerald Hinds, the long-serving representative for Laventille West.
PENNY VS. STUART WAR LOOMS
PENNELOPE Beckles-Robinson may have lost out on becoming the next Prime Minister, but she is still a challenger for Political Leader of the PNM.
Supporters of the Arima Member of Parliament are strategising on having her elected to succeed Dr. Keith Rowley at September’s much-anticipated convention of the ruling party.
YOUNG A BIG BUSINESS PRIME MINISTER
With his family’s entrepreneurial background and his entrenched commercial interests, Young is likely to become an even greater facilitator of large corporations than Dr. Keith Rowley.
THREATS LEAD TO PNM UNITY
THE ruling PNM, which turns 69 on Wednesday, put on a media show of unity after Saturday’s General Council meeting.
This followed the capitulation of certain prominent party operatives after threats by a senior official.
FIERY FARIS BATS FOR PENNY
Would he make it as Sando West candidate?
FARIS Al Rawi came out batting for Pennelope Beckles at the PNM’s Tobago retreat in an effort to block his former pal Stuart Young.
T&T HEADING TO HAITI’S ANARCHY
THE shootings at the homes of three prison officers are the latest step in Trinidad and Tobago’s descent into Haitian-style anarchy.
The shootings follow Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley’s shocking assertion of police stations being closed for fear of criminals.
Local prisons officers were previously killed, allegedly after hits were placed on their lives by inmates.