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OPEC keeps oil production at current high level
VIENNA—Acknowledging their inability to push up oil prices, OPEC nations yesterday effectively scrapped their official output ceiling and agreed to keep producing well above that level.An attempt to...
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Name sectors, not companies
Some sections of the business community are questioning the decision by Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran to name the companies that have used up the largest chunk of the country’s foreign exchange...
View ArticleDiversification is hard
One of the remnants of the Colonial era is that we have several small island states which have major limitations with respect to size and competitive advantage. Many of these small economies depend on...
View ArticleRecession and paying the rent
I read two things in the news today that confused me, and in some ways they are inextricably linked. The first was the statement by the Central Bank Governor who said that nation “Was in recession.”He...
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Frustration at the Oval
A T&T player born in Guyana and another on debut avoided an embarrassing day for the T&T Red Force against the Guyana Jaguars on the opening day of the fourth round of the West Indies Cricket...
View ArticleU-20 Women Warriors face Honduras
This country’s Under-20 Women Soca Warriors will be going after their first points in two matches when they meet Honduras in a feature match of a Group A double-header in the Concacaf Under-20...
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Woeful WI staring at innings defeat
BRISBANE, Australia—West Indies were staring a humiliating innings defeat in the face after an all too familiar second innings batting collapse left them hanging by a thread on the penultimate day of...
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Crossing looks safe
Canford Crossing can go one better and make it fourth time lucky in division one of the Maiden Stakes over an extended mile of Wolverhampton Tapeta tonight; it’s a long way for two-year-olds but...
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Cricket in a confused state
It is a fact. The game that once attracted thousands of fans when our national team played in the regional Shell competition, has now been reduced to nothing. There is no longer that enthusiasm which...
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Imam’s daughter heads to Syria with family
Days before the Office of the Attorney General was given the green light to seize the assets of T&T national Kareem Ibrahim who was convicted of terrorism in the United States, a local Muslim...
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Mahabir on recession: I will provide solutions in Parliament
Independent Senator and economist Dr Dhanayshar Mahabir says that a recession means different things in different countries. Speaking after the rededication of the Cathedral of the Immaculate...
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Medical Association queries Fuad’s newspaper ad
The T&T Medical Association has raised concerns about an alleged violation of the regulations of the Medical Board of T&T (MBTT) by former health minister Dr Fuad Khan. They have written to...
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Baroness Scotland to attend Wild Fowl Trust’s 50th anniversary celebration
The Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust is celebrating its 50th anniversary and is marking this significant achievement with a series of events scheduled to begin this week and ending November 2016.To help...
View ArticleDeyalsingh: Masking tape keeps delivery table in use
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh on Friday expressed shock that a “broken crank” of a delivery table at the Mt Hope Women’s Hospital was being held together by masking tape.Deyalsingh said this was...
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Leaner Christmas for public sector
It will be a leaner Christmas season for state agencies, government ministries and the public service as Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has warned them not to splurge. He said measures have been put in...
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Kamla in the lead
A landslide victory for United National Congress second-term leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar seemed sure up to 10.05 last night.As the night wore on, Persad-Bissessar’s Siparia constituency office in...
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Of photos and inspiring words
Valdeen Shears-NeptuneMany adults would surely tell you that as a child, they wished they had someone...anyone willing to offer them positive words of encouragement. Words, that in hindsight, may have...
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Going to lengths to get funky
The launch of the Purple Label—Cocktail Edition for AFROFUNKK by designer Charlene Sheppard-Duncan at The Shop at the Normandie Hotel on November 27, drew a crowd of admirers and local designers,...
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Alicia Jaggasar, Parang Queen of T&T
Alicia Jaggasar is the vivacious and personable composer, lead singer/cuatro player/board member of the nine-time and currently reigning parang champions Los Alumnos de San Juan. She is the 11-time and...
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Women Soca Warriors tackle USA
T&T women Soca Warriors team will come against USA in the first of two friendly internationals at the Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii, from 3 pm (9 pm TT time) today.Both teams will face off again...
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