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- 23 December, 2024
1980s, HERE WE COME
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert’s broad hint of a review of free public healthcare is another pointer that Trinidad and Tobago is reversing to the quality of life experienced in the miserable 1980s.
PM SUPPORTS $3B AFRICAN FUNDS TO ELITES
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley is backing a move to make US $3 billion credit from an African bank available to regional elites instead of small business people.
BP’S DECLINE ANOTHER ECONOMIC BLOW
BP, once the biggest investor in Trinidad and Tobago, is realigning its operations in the midst of continuously dwindling returns.
NOW GOVT WANTS $2.3 B MORE
THE Rowley Government, which cannot account for $2.6 billion to the Auditor General for 2023, now wants an additional $2.3 billion for the current financial year.
A COMEBACK FOR PAULA?
Ms. Gopee-Scoon, Minister of Trade and Industry, may face the electorate for the PNM in a southern constituency, possibly the marginal Moruga-Tableland.
T&T GANGSTERS USE HAITI-STYLE GUNS
SOME gangsters in Trinidad and Tobago are using similar weapons to goons in Haiti.
AL RAWI SLIPS AGAIN
IN another political slighting, Faris Al Rawi has been bypassed to act as Attorney General during Reginald Armour’s absence from the country.
Political newbie Marvin Gonzales was appointed to serve as Attorney General.
9 FIRMS SQUARE OFF FOR PETROTRIN
NINE industrial companies, most with Trinidad and Tobago-based ties, have put in bids to operate the Petrotrin refinery.
A decision is expected within the next few months on the lease of the idle petrochemical facility.
RICH MAN, POOR PAN
IN this November 2000 picture are then-Prime Minister Basdeo Panday and Pan Trinbago President Patrick Arnold at a function for the granting of State land for a steelband head office and performance theatre.
NEW CRIME FEAR BY SMALL BUSINESS
THE cold-blooded murder of policeman Dale Mayers in a Longdenville bar has awakened new fears by small business people over the threat of crime.
Mayers’ killing is in addition to a spate of shootings and robberies at community business places, which generally do not have the security protection of large operations.
