- 8 August, 2025
ROWLEY’S GHANA FUNCTIONS ALREADY GONE
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley says he will attend major celebrations in Ghana – but those activities have already occurred.
The primary functions to observe the 25th anniversary of the ascension of the King of Ashanti occurred between April 22 and 26.
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.
MORE STEEP BANK CHARGES
COMMERCIAL banks, which are recording historic profits, are quietly hefty additional charges on individual and commercial customers.
Banks are now inflicting charges on every single transaction, whether it is over-the-counter, online or at automated teller machines (ATMs).
USELESS MINISTERS
National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds remained mum, typical of his response to the orgy of crime.
Acting Prime Minister Colm Imbert characteristically responds only to matters of his Finance Ministry, especially if an expert disputes his upbeat statistics.
EXTORTIONS ON THE RISE
Demanding money by menace is now commonplace throughout the country, especially in outlying business districts like Chaguanas, Couva, Sangre Grande, Penal, Fyzabad, San Juan, and Princes Town.
