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- 23 December, 2024
MORE AND MORE LIKE HAITI…
DELMAS is an inner city community off Port-au-Prince, Haiti, just like Harpe Place, Port of Spain, but much larger.
There is much creativity, although nothing like Renegades, our 13-time Panorama winner.
IMF ‘CHAIN UP’ FOR IMBERT
WHILE many people are struggling to make a living in Trinidad and Tobago, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has managed to praise the Government’s handling of the economy.
KFC’S CORPORATE GREED
The KFC example fits the textbook definition of “corporate greed” or what the respected Forbes magazine calls “greedflation.”
Prestige’s chairman heads 10 dominant corporations – including the pharmaceutical monopoly – most of which gobble up precious foreign exchange and do not add to the productive process.
QUIET MOVES TO APPOINT NEW TSTT BOSSES
THE Board of Directors of Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) is quietly moving to appoint senior executives while an enquiry into last October’s cyber-attack scandal is still incomplete.
T&T STILL ON EU TAX BLACKLIST
TRINIDAD and Tobago is now one of only 12 countries in the world on the European Union’s tax blacklist.
The EU has just removed The Bahamas, Belize, Turks and Caicos Islands and Seychelles from its dreaded blacklist.
But T&T is still there, with other countries that, according to the EU, are “not cooperative on tax matters.”
OBSCENE SALARY PROPOSAL
THE Salaries Review Commission can’t be serious.
The rationale for proposing generous salary increases for public office-holders is borderline offensive.
FLORIDA MOVES TO SCRAP PROPERTY TAX
FLORIDA, the American state closest to Trinidad and Tobago, is moving to scrap property tax.
The state’s legislature is undertaking a study to determine the financial impact of eliminating the tax.
CONCRETE SPITE IN CEMENT PRICE INCREASE
SPITEFULNESS from the Rowley Government is the reason local consumers are facing increasing cement prices.
As a monopoly, Trinidad Cement Ltd. (TCL) is jacking up its prices for the fourth time in two years.
MYSTERY MAN IN DRAGON GAS DEAL
A MYSTERY man is a big operative in a secret company formed by the Rowley Government to manage the Dragon Gas deal.
His name is Joseph Khan, and no one knows him in the energy sector.
