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T&T benefiting from the Commonwealth
T&T is benefiting from its membership in the 53-member-nation Commonwealth. So said Planning and Development Minister Camille Robinson-Regis, in response to a question from reporters at a function...
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Mystery 60-ft crater linked to colonial well
Operations at San Fernando City Corporation’s Carib Street Works Department got off to a late start yesterday, after a sink hole appeared in the parking lot, causing the evacuation of workers.The hole,...
View ArticleTTNGL records improved profit
T&T NGL Limited (TTNGL) has recorded after tax earnings of $402.8 million in 2015. This is a significant improvement over the loss of $804.2 million incurred in 2014,” said chairman Gerry C Brooks...
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ArcelorMittal Fallout
Two of three economists interviewed by the T&T Guardian are advising the Government against purchasing the ArcelorMittal steel plant at Point Lisas. The foreign operators of the plant have shut it...
View ArticleUnions: Workers need more protection
The plight of the 644 ArcelorMittal workers who have been put on the breadline following the shutdown of the steel plant at Point Lisas has triggered calls from trade unions for amendments to the...
View ArticleIn protecting animals we protect people
The Simba/Baby Maleek tragedy is shocking and mortifying on every level. Animals Alive extends its heartfelt sympathies to the grieving family. As an Animal Welfare Organisation we are also deeply...
View ArticleUse technology to help with discipline
Nowadays parents occupy their children’s time by allowing them video games, tablets and smartphones. From as early as one year of age (and earlier in some cases) kids are being handed electronic...
View ArticleHoping Minshall returns in 2017
We seem to have promising news with mas maker extraordinaire Peter Minshall who may be returning to the Carnival arena once more next year. It is, hopefully, to continue his excellence in the culture...
View ArticleSeverance benefits should be protected by law
An open letter to the Government of T&T, all trade unions, employees of ArcelorMittal and ArcelorMittal Pt Lisas Limited: Firstly, please allow me to state for the record, that I am writing in the...
View ArticleAnother ‘too big to fail’ company
After a decade and a half of absorbing billions from selling the state inflated-priced steel products they are lamenting that their inflated profit margin is too slim to stay in business in T&T....
View ArticleT&T could only come second in this battle
ISCOTT, the original steel company, was a political plant. A straight case of jobs for the boys.We did not have iron ore occurring naturally but we had natural gas in abundance. So based on one man’s...
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Search on for murder suspect in La Brea
The police are currently combing through the streets of La Brea looking for a man they suspect is connected to murder in the area. At about 10 am Dareem Payne, 24, from Three Hands, La Brea was walking...
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Landfill fire forces school to close
The Springvale Hindu Primary School was closed this morning, as smoke from ongoing fires at the Forres Park landfill blanketed the community. According to reports, around 8.45 am, shortly after school...
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Construtora OAS cuts 860
After weeks of intense protests for outstanding wages, 860 employees of financially embattled Construtora OAS received the dreadful news yesterday that the company had laid them off.The workers,...
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Missing Central couple killed
A Central couple who were reported missing Sunday were found murdered, hours apart, in two different police divisions on Monday.Police said from their preliminary reports they believed that the body of...
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The fallacies of recession
Kevin BaldeosinghAs the recession hits T&T harder, more and more nonsense will be spoken about economic matters. Along with Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson (reviewed in this space in...
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Literacy and the economy
Last week, this column revealed that in 1995, eight per cent of people over 15 years of age (which would have equated to 62,000 adults) could not read even three of these words: to, at, love, sun, bet....
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Rowley on new allegation against McDonald: If I have to act I will
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley last night assured the nation that if Housing Minister Mc Donald is found guilty of any wrong doing he will take action, saying he would not ignore new information which...
View ArticleBecause he condemned bigotry: Model student becomes target
Almost overnight, the simple statement that “it is okay to be gay” has turned the spotlight on a model Naparima College Upper Six student, making him a hero in the eyes of some and a pariah to...
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Three T&T writers among CODE’s Burt Award finalists
Three T&T writers are among the six finalists selected from 60 regional submissions of published books and unpublished manuscripts for CODE’s Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, the only award of...
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