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- 23 December, 2024
WHY IS BILLIONAIRE SOROS SPENDING $$ IN T&T?
Soros’ organisation, Open Society Foundations (OSF), signed an agreement with The University of the West Indies in 2020 to “work with like-minded entities” on issues such as climate change, racial injustice, and attacks on democracy.
KING CHARLES, SLAVERY AND INDENTURE
KING Charles 111 has been coronated to a job he has held for seven months amid festering sores pertaining to slavery and indentureship.
T&T FIRM LANDS $1.5 B ST. KITTS-NEVIS HOUSING CONTRACT
A Trinidad and Tobago-owned company has secured a contract valued at TT $1.52 billion for the construction of 2,400 houses over four years in St. Kitts-Nevis.
THE ONLY PLACE WHERE ‘INDIA’ IS A BAD WORD
While T&T has the largest Indian diaspora in the Caribbean, the Government seems disinterested in deepening ties with a country that could aid the struggling domestic economy.
LAST SHIP WITH INDENTURED IMMIGRANTS – 106 YEARS AGO
The vessel was SS Ganges, which docked at Nelson Island on April 22, 1917 with 421 labourers, seven having died during the tumultuous voyage across the “kali pani” (dark waters).
T&T TRAVELLERS HIT BY CANADIAN STRIKE
Trinidadians and Tobagonians are among people from around the world who are seeking to migrate to the North American country, which is welcoming almost 500,000 permanent residents this year.
A CHINESE POLICE STATION IN T&T?
THE arrests of two people accused of running a covert Chinese police station in New York raise fresh questions about whether such an operation exists in Trinidad and Tobago.
KARMIC RISE OF THE COLONISED IN BRITAIN
On any regular weekday night, Akshana Asthana’s name comes across television screens in the UK. Asthana is deputy political editor at ITV news.
PIARCO NOT IN WORLD’S TOP 100 AIRPORTS
The same agency, Skytrax, which named Piarco as the Caribbean’s best, did not include the Trinidad and Tobago airport among the globe’s leading 100 for 2023.
FARIS FALTERS AGAIN
FAST-TALKING Government Minister Faris Al Rawi is continuing to tumble from political grace.
