- 7 April, 2025
WHO IS THE CABINET SNITCH?
ALL is not as well in the Cabinet as Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley makes it appear.
The ruling party, which has an ingrained culture of collective responsibility and confidentiality, is now displaying subtle signs of disagreement.
NOT SO FAST, IMBERT
IN its 2015 general election manifesto, the People’s National Movement (PNM) promised to decrease Value Added Tax (VAT) from 15 to 12.5 per cent.
Finance Minister Colm Imbert did so in his first Budget.
REVEALED: CABINET NOTE ON $2.3 B ADD-ON TO BUDGET
THE following is Finance Minister Colm Imbert’s note to Cabinet on May 21, 2024 with a request for $2.3 billion more to be added to the 2023-2024 national budget.
STILL NO CYBERCRIME REPORT FROM GONZALES
PUBLIC Utilities Minister Marvin Gonzales is confirming his image as Dr. Dolittle with the slow investigation into a cyber attack of Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT).
PROTEST OVER $3 B FOR ELITES
A GROUP of conscientious nationals is planning a protest against Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley’s support of $3 billion in loans from an African bank to local elites.
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.
PASSING OF THE GREATEST GENERATION
We are losing the post-Independence generation, whose imaginations were fired by national pride and honour and who strove zealously to create a better Trinidad and Tobago.