Online tax to benefit merchant class?
Online shoppers shop online to bypass local price-gouging merchants. What are we citizens to do when government sanctions us with tariffs to force us to desist from boycotting their merchant friends...
View ArticleWe need more of this ‘forced transparency’
Hooray for whistleblowers! It is because of the success of their efforts that the enormity of the secret financial industry is being revealed. People who have been swearing by their integrity have been...
View ArticleProtection of workers must take priority
The country has sustained its’ people all their lives and now it is the turn of the people to return the favour to the country. The time is right and conditions are perfect, for it is the beloved PNM...
View ArticleWe can be part of a champion adjustment team
We are all revelling in the glorious victories of West Indies cricket teams—women, youth and senior. This has brought back great memories to a particular section of the West Indies public who tell...
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Claxton Bay health inspector shot dead in bed
After gunmen broke into his house and ordered his companion to run, a 55-year-old Ministry of Health supervisor was shot dead in his bed this morning. The murder of David Young has shocked relatives...
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Let’s declare war on crime—Dillon
National Security Minister Edmund Dillon wants citizens to declare war on criminals, promising protection for all informants who assist in bringing them to justice.Speaking to reporters at the funeral...
View ArticlePriest: Leave killers in the hands of God
Condemning PC Anson Benjamin’s killers as cowards, Anglican priest Sherwin Dickerson yesterday urged mourners to leave his murder in the hands of God.Speaking during Benjamin’s funeral at the St Paul’s...
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Widow seeks justice for dead husband
Convinced that her husband PC Govindra Ramroop’s death was no accident, Susan Roopnarine-Ramroop yesterday begged National Security Minister Edmund Dillon not to allow her husband's demise to become a...
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Witnesses now in protective custody
The two women who were in the vehicle when 22-year-old UK national Adrian St John was robbed and killed are now in police protective custody.Police have detained a 24-year-old man who turned up to give...
View ArticleHealth supervisor shot dead in bed
After gunmen broke into his house and ordered his friend to run, a 55-year-old Ministry of Health supervisor was shot dead in his bed yesterday.The murder of David Young has shocked relatives who...
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Trini-born chemist released from US jail
Disgraced T&T-born US-based chemist Annie Dookhan, whose faulty testing of evidence out of a Boston lab led to widespread issues in the US criminal justice system, has been released from prison.Her...
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Mark criticises new fiscal measures: Poor targetted, rich rewarded
Deal with T&T’s tax dodgers and companies that abuse transfer-pricing systems rather than “pressure” average citizens who are hurting and “crying blood” over Government’s austerity measures,...
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Maxi fares stay same... for now
Red band maxi taxi drivers will not be increasing their fares to the public just yet.So said president of the Route Two Maxi Taxi Association, Linus Phillip, following a marathon meeting with its...
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Dead bandit linked to other crimes
Kemroy Alexander, the teenager who died following a high-speed chase with police on Saturday, has been linked to a stolen car used in a drive-by murder in central Trinidad earlier this year....
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Devant settles lawsuit against Jack
Former Food Production Minister Devant Maharaj has agreed to withdraw his defamation lawsuit against Jack Warner’s Sunshine newspaper. Maharaj did so yesterday after attorneys for the colleagues,...
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IMF: Slower for longer
WASHINGTON, DC—The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday warned that slowing growth exposed the global economy to significant negative risks that could trigger renewed financial turbulence.The...
View ArticleLawyer on service station licences: Ministry may have allowed illegality
Lawyers representing the Energy Ministry yesterday admitted that their client may have “condoned an illegality” by allowing service stations to operate without valid petroleum retail marketing licences...
View ArticleCentral Bank estimates 5,000 jobs lost
As many as 5,000 workers may have lost their jobs since the fourth quarter of 2015, the Central Bank estimates. In its March 2016 Economic Bulletin, the bank is forecasting a slackening of domestic...
View ArticleTime to harness the PTA resource
As the country painfully seeks solutions to the growing problems within our schools, we seem to be overlooking an already existing significant resource which we need to use to our greater advantage.I...
View ArticleT&T cannot remain a welfare state for too long
Should we appease our high sense of taste and go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)? Or should we sacrifice our wants and bear with increase taxes, gas and food prices.As human beings it is hard...
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