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- 23 December, 2024
PNM’S WAKANDA POLITICS
THE Government recently honoured Dominique Thorne, a star of the movie “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” at a function funded by a taxpayer-owned agency.
The tab was picked by National Entrepreneurship Development Company (NEDCO), which reports to Foster Cummings’ Ministry of Youth Development and National Service.
SCHOOL REOPENING CHAOS LOOMS
RAMPANT chaos is expected at several schools from the lack of repairs and maintenance as the new academic year begins.Education Minister Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dolly is blaming a shortage of money for the looming crisis, as she has decided to “take in front,” as the Express newspaper termed it.
MORE VENE REFUGEES COMING IN
MORE Venezuelan refugees have begun arriving in Trinidad and Tobago amid the election crisis in that strife-torn land.
GUYANA’S DIPLOMATIC LEADERSHIP STANDS OUT
Guyana has shown leadership in several other regional matters, including the food plan, the Haitian crisis, strengthening the single market and economy, and West Indian cricket.
PASSING OF A CARIBBEAN STORYTELLER
FOR a generation, Dave Martins portrayed Caribbean society like few others.
Martins was a regionalist, a storyteller, and a musical commentator on our heritage and identity.
PRISONS OFFICER UNDER MAINTENANCE $ PROBE
THE arrest of a Tobago prisons officer for alleged theft of $24,498 in warrant payments follows a revelation of a scam.
EXPOSE HALTS $475 M HDC DEAL
THE Government’s decision to cancel a $475.8 million housing contract with a Chinese company has come after an investigation by this news site.
INVESTORS STILL BYPASSING T&T
INVESTORS are continuing to bypass Trinidad and Tobago, a new United Nations report has revealed.
T&T, which had a net loss of investments worth US $917 million in 2022 and US $778 million in 2021, does not feature in the 2023 study.
PHARMACEUTICAL MONOPOLY STRENGTHENS ITS HOLD
SUPERPHARM, part of Agostini’s pharmaceutical monopoly, is taking over Massy’s drug stores, giving further pricing power to a single industry operator.
HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE?
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley agonises over the unending stream of cold-blooded killings as if he is an average helpless citizen.
He still saddles the country with gross incompetence at the National Security Ministry, to the point where his friend, UWI’s Dr. Hilary Beckles, speaking at Emancipation Day celebrations, pleaded for a “changing of the guard.”