- 3 April, 2025
5 WAYS VENE POLL WAS RIGGED
THE recent Venezuelan presidential election was rigged in at least five ways.
GOVT PAYS $12M TO EVALUATE BIDS –BUT PREPARES TO HAND PETROTRIN TO JINDAL
THE Government is paying a foreign evaluator almost TT $12 million to examine the nine bids for a lease of Petrotrin.
CARICOM CONCERNS OVER T&T’S VENEZUELA’S TIES
TRINIDAD and Tobago’s warm relationship with Venezuela is raising eyebrows across the region, as the South American country heads to the polls.
WOULD T&T AND GUYANA FINALLY GET INTO JOINT GAS BUSINESS?
TRINIDAD and Tobago is seeking to sign natural gas exploration agreements with Guyana and other regional countries.
VENES IN T&T CAN’T VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
MOST Venezuelan exiles in the Caribbean and elsewhere will be unable to vote in this weekend’s presidential election.
A TALE OF TWO ECONOMIES
THERE was a time, mere decades ago,\ when the economies of Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana were diametrically different from what currently exists. In the
THE KHAN’T-DO LADY: PROCUREMENT REGULATOR STALLS
THEY refer to her as the Khan’t-do lady. That is because Procurement Regulator Beverly Khan – whose official monthly financial package is around $85,000 –
WHAT A KAMALA PRESIDENCY COULD MEAN FOR THE CARIBBEAN
KAMALA Harris is President Joe Biden’s point person for the Caribbean. Ms. Harris, the daughter of a Jamaican-born father, spearheads the high-powered US-Caribbean Partnership. That
HALLIBURTON’S PROFIT BOOSTED BY GUYANA
A MAJOR energy service company that moved much of its regional operations from Trinidad and Tobago to Guyana is reporting high profit. The company’s 2024
POETIC JUSTICE FOR JINDAL
TAXPAYERS are dishing out $12 million to a Canadian company to evaluate bids for the lease of Petrotrin.
The Government has permitted Naveen Jindal, the billionaire industrialist, to skip that process.