- 20 May, 2025
HOLA, ERLA
SOMEBODY upstairs must really like Erla Harewood-Christopher.
Not just the Cabinet and its globetrotting leader. There must have been a celestial involvement in the reappointment of the bungling police chief amid rampant murders, assaults, home invasions and other bloody crimes.
BUSINESS PLEADS FOR ACTION ON INVESTMENTS
THE business community is pleading with the Government to take effective measures to attract local and international investments.
IMBERT COMES UP SHORT
COLM Imbert, the Government’s poster boy of hubris, was always going to land in trouble with the people.
TAXPAYERS STILL PAYING $4.4 B PETROTRIN LOANS
TAXPAYERS still owe $4.4 billion for scandalous Petrotrin project cost overruns from the Patrick Manning era.
So far, the country has repaid $7.5 billion on a number of loans to finance several hugely expensive ventures at Pointe-a-Pierre.
OUTRAGE OVER ROWLEY’S PETROTRIN PLANS
THREE bidders for Petrotrin are outraged at plans to offer the operations to a giant corporation from India.
The bidders include a company owned by the family of a longstanding PNM-friendly industrialist.
MEN WHO THINK THEY CAN COOK (THE BOOKS)
A MEMBER of Parliament took home a total of $752,405.96 in 2023 for the rental of properties to government ministries.
Another MP got $225,378.48 for another property rental last year.
GOVT SET UP OWTU AGAIN
THE Government is playing the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) for the third time on the purchase of Petrotrin.
The Government is in an advanced stage of negotiations with a foreign-owned energy corporation to take over the Pointe-a-Pierre operations that have been mothballed since November 2018.
SILENCE ON $3.5 BILLION SCANDAL
ANOTHER messy chapter in the biggest scandal since the Calder Hart fiasco has closed without national outrage.
In its latest saga, the plant was handed to Niquan Energy for an initial US $10 million, and a subsequent US $25 million in preference shares, which it did not pay.
UNC MUST MAKE PEACE
TRINIDAD and Tobago simply cannot survive another five-year People’s National Movement (PNM) term of office.
ROWLEY’S FLIGHTS OF FANTASY
The new cricket arena, according to Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley, will be built by Reliance Industries, an energy, entertainment, telecommunications and textiles giant from India.
