- 23 July, 2025
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.
ROWLEY PLEADS WITH US TO SAVE DRAGON GAS DEAL
Rowley raised the urgent and critical matter with US Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and congressional members led by Hakeem Jefferies.
COLLAPSE OF DRAGON GAS AND THE WHOLE BLINKING MARKET
The Venezuelan Supreme Court, which Maduro controls, has blocked opposition presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from contesting the election, which is due this year.
NEWMAN, OLD PROBLEM
The startling report of the Jerome Lynch Committee accuses Paria’s top brass of “gross negligence” and “criminal” action, but Chairman Newman George and his merry band are still in office.
LOOK WHO IS BACK
DR. Terrence Farrell, who in January 2018 quit in frustration from a high-powered Government board, is back on another official committee.
NO WORD ON $100 M BALISIER HOUSE
The ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) feted the media at Balisier House last week – and no one asked how the party could rise to a $100 million headquarters within years of being bankrupt.
MORE BUCKS FOR PROFIT-RICH STARBUCKS
THE local franchise holder for Starbucks made a stunning 75 per cent increased profit in its most recent fiscal year.
Seventy five per cent!
LABOUR’S CURIOUS SILENCE
AT the time of writing, the labour sector had not issued a commentary on the passing of Basdeo Panday, one of the country’s longest-serving and transformative trade union leaders.
ADB CHAIR FACES THE SACK
SEKOU Mark, Chairman of the loss-making and scandal-plagued Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), is expected to be replaced at the end of his tenure in February.
NO JUSTICE FOR PARIA DIVING VICTIMS
The 380-page report of the Jerome Lynch-headed Commission of Enquiry (CoE) is likely to suffer a dead-end fate similar to previous public probes into major wrongdoing.
