(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Finance Colm Imbert has announced the forex window at the EximBank for essential imports, created during the Covid-19 pandemic, has been resumed in a restructured format.
(Trinidad Guardian) The reduction of the US-dollar spending limit on credit cards issued by local commercial banks continues to be a major problem as it is putting a sleeper hold on local businesses and also forcing them to use several credit cards to import goods.
(Trinidad Guardian) Shell Trinidad and Tobago Limited has launched a composting initiative, “Platform to Plant,” to transform food waste from its Poinsettia offshore platform into compost.
(Trinidad Guardian) A business group has denounced as unfair claims by criminologist Dr Daurius Figueira that an upsurge in extortions in central Trinidad is linked to businesses that are using drug money to fund their operations.
(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Colm Imbert has said he will look ” very carefully” into regulating access to forex distributed by private commercial banks.
(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is on board with Finance Minister Colm Imbert’s approved four per cent wage increase offer to pilots, but the union representing them isn’t ready to fly with all of the proposal just yet.
(Trinidad Guardian) A father and son were killed, and another son was fighting for his life at hospital last night, after gunmen attacked the relatives in Valencia on Wednesday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly says there is no policy barring children from wearing clothing other than their school uniform to attend functions at their schools.
(Trinidad Express) A group of 30 police constables have emerged victorious in a judicial review claim against the Office of the Police Commissioner and the Promotion Advisory Board.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Estate Management and Business Development Company Limited (EMBD) will have to pay over $83 million in outstanding fees to Junior Sammy Contractors Limited.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Finance, Colm Imbert, said yesterday that the foreign exchange window opened by the Exim Bank for wholesale importers of basic foods and pharmaceuticals during the COVID-19 pandemic was a temporary initiative.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Chinese national is set to appear in court after being charged with money laundering.
(Trinidad Guardian) A mother of three was shot and killed as she left a bar in Cocoyea Village, San Fernando, yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 49-year-old former soldier was shot and killed during a robbery yesterday afternoon.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago could be facing a shortage of basic food items as wholesalers who import the majority of these goods have been unable to access foreign exchange from the Exim Bank in two months.
(Trinidad Guardian) McCartha Linda “Calypso Rose” Sandy-Lewis was among eight icons in Tobago honoured by the Tobago House of Assembly on Friday.
(Trinidad Guardian) A T&T national has been extradited to the United States to face charges for 128 counts of sex crime offences against children.
(Trinidad Express) Specialist maritime attorney Nyree Alfonso says that arresting the tug Solo Creed to recover $244 million could become “a case of the candle costing more than the funeral,” as she believes the expenses and efforts of this legal pursuit might ultimately outweigh any financial recovery.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne has called for the removal of what he called “imperial arrogance” from discussion on repatriations.
(Trinidad Express) Police are still searching for kidnapped businessman Suvesh Ramnarine.
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