T&T raises repo rate again
Aleem KhanPublished: Tuesday, December 2, 2014The Central Bank of T&T has once again raised the repo rate by 25 basis points, bringing it to 3.25 per cent yesterday, just months after raising the...
View ArticleDon’t give up on us
Waldrum hopes to keep momentumAndrew GioannettiPublished: Wednesday, December 3, 2014T&T’s Women Soca Warriors’ hopes of achieving an historic berth in next year’s Fifa World Cup in Canada were...
View ArticleAG on surgery to remove cocaine pellets: Medical Board launches probe
Richard LordPublished: Wednesday, December 3, 2014The Medical Board has launched an investigation into a surgery at a private hospital last January to remove 17 cocaine pellets from the stomach of an...
View ArticleBee invasion in 4 Siparia schools
Radica SookrajPublished: Wednesday, December 3, 2014Swarms of bees have invaded four schools in Siparia, stinging several pupils and forcing the closure of a pre-school. Among the schools affected were...
View ArticleAnother PNM MP bows out of polls
Former minister screened for St Ann’s EastGail AlexanderPublished: Wednesday, December 3, 2014PNM St Ann’s East MP Joanne Thomas is not contesting the seat and its former MP Anthony Roberts is among...
View ArticleChairman of enquiry into Las Alturas: No one will be hounded
Gail AlexanderPublished: Wednesday, December 3, 2014People will be treated fairly as they come before the Las Alturas commission of enquiry and no one will be “hounded, the commission’s chairman,...
View ArticleParties continue search for solution
Demolition of GreyfriarsAnna-Lisa PaulPublished: Wednesday, December 3, 2014Although discussions continue with businessman Alfred Galy on the preservation of the Greyfriars Church, Frederick Street,...
View ArticlePolice kill mentally ill man
Family wants justiceJensen La VendePublished: Wednesday, December 3, 2014Relatives of 37-year-old Ramon Roger Mathlin, the mentally ill man killed by police on Monday, say they want justice as the...
View ArticleSando store owners hope for ‘pick-up’ in Christmas sales
Sascha WilsonPublished: Wednesday, December 3, 2014With less than three weeks before Christmas, shopping is generally slow in San Fernando but business people are optimistic that sales will increase....
View ArticleOWTU, Petrotrin negotiations in stalemate
Workers demand strike actionReshma RagoonathPublished: Wednesday, December 3, 2014“Strike, strike, strike.” This was the resounding demand from Petrotrin workers to the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union...
View ArticleAlternative parking for Chaguanas shoppers
Yvonne BaboolalPublished: Wednesday, December 3, 2014The planned park-and-ride service for shoppers in Chaguanas may not materialise but empty lots along Ramsaran Street are being cleared for parking...
View ArticleBleak Christmas for flood-hit Mayaro residents
Reshma RagoonathPublished: Wednesday, December 3, 2014Mayaro resident Tricia Adams says there will be no jolly Christmas for her community this year as residents continue to count their losses from...
View ArticleEarth's climate locked into temperature increases, study shows
Published: Wednesday, December 3, 2014A new World Bank report exploring the impact of climate change in the Caribbean and globally, finds that 1.5°C warming is already locked into the Earth’s...
View ArticlePetrotrin total debt at $14.38b
Call for workers to recommitSuzanne SheppardPublished: Thursday, December 4, 2014Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine yesterday appealed to employees of Petrotrin to recommit to the stabilisation and growth...
View Article2 dead, 3 in hospital after Siparia accident
Sharlene RampersadPublished: Thursday, December 4, 2014A father of one and a Form Four student are dead and three others hospitalised after the car they were travelling in collided with a truck in...
View ArticleRowley blanks Manning
Renuka SinghPublished: Thursday, December 4, 2014People’s National Movement (PNM) leader Dr Keith Rowley stood his ground yesterday and refused former leader Patrick Manning’s offer for the two to meet...
View ArticleJuvenile homes coming—Coudray
Debate on children’s regulationsRichard LordPublished: Thursday, December 4, 2014Juvenile homes are being established. So said Local Government Minister Marlene Coudray during her contribution to...
View ArticleTwo new positions for Justice Ministry
Richard LordPublished: Thursday, December 4, 2014The Government is moving to create two new positions within the Justice Ministry, the director and deputy director of the Electronic Monitoring Unit...
View ArticleGreyfriars is different church—Presbyterian
Gail AlexanderPublished: Thursday, December 4, 2014Greyfriars Church of Scotland is affiliated with the Scottish Presbyterians and is a completely different body to the Presbyterian Church of T&T...
View ArticleGaly gets ‘stop order’ from city
Anna-Lisa PaulPublished: Thursday, December 4, 2014The Port-of-Spain City Corporation now has an injunction preventing Alfred Galy from carrying out any further demolition work at Greyfriars Church,...
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