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- 22 December, 2024
ROWLEY STIRS TALK OF EARLY POLL
SEVERAL political activities by the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) are fuelling speculation of a general election within the next few months.
The PNM is quickening the pace of screening of candidates to complete the exercise and schedule a party convention in the upcoming weeks.
NOW CORRUPTION-ACCUSED NIGERIAN FIRM IN RACE FOR PETROTRIN
This newspaper had earlier exposed the corruption charges against previous frontrunner Naveen Jindal, an Indian entrepreneur.
Jindal, who was not asked to submit a formal tender, later backed off, blaming public critics.
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.
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.
FAILED GOVT PROMISES COST 2 YOUNG LIVES
Both Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan and his junior minister Richi Sookhai had promised to install guardrails, which, they said, were more effective and easier to maintain than cable barriers.
BANNED CHINESE FIRM LANDS $475 M HDC DEAL
A CHINESE company with a dark history of bribery and other financial scandals is being given a $475.83 million public deal in Trinidad and Tobago.
