Trinidad & Tobago News

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has defended the $50 million allocation to the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) for entertainment and functions.

(Trinidad Guardian) The new car industry has been labelled as the largest consumer of foreign exchange in this country by Minster in the Ministry of Finance Brian Manning.

(Trinidad Express) Misleading and mischievous.. This was the response yesterday from Patriotic Energy Services Company Ltd, owned by the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) to Energy Minister Stuart Young’s statement that the company provided a fake and fraudulent document during its bid for the former Petrotrin refinery at Pointe-a-Pierre.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is challenging the Opposition Leader to name the so-called paedophiles that she claims are in the “high ranks” of the People’s National Movement (PNM).

(Trinidad Guardian) Likening themselves as a phoenix, supposedly rising out of the ashes of the Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU), the Republic Workers Union (RWU) officially launched yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a shocking revelation in Parliament yesterday, Energy Minister Stuart Young claimed the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union’s (OWTU) Patriotic Energies Company Limited failed to make the next round of bidding on the mothballed Petrotrin refinery because it lied about its financial standing by submitting a fake document to the evaluation committee tasked with receiving proposals.

(Trinidad Express) A business arrangement that did not go as planned came to an end with Trinbagonian cricketers Sunil Narine and Terrance Hinds having to pay more than $60,000 to their former landlord for breach of contract.

(Trinidad Express) Sachel Kungebeharry, the used car dealer who was allegedly kidnapped for ransom by police officers in a marked police car last month, has been found dead.

(Trinidad Guardian) Colm Imbert’s over five-hour long budget presentation is coming under criticism for its length, with former finance ministers saying it was a form of abuse inflicted on the population.

(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Colm Imbert on Monday delivered a budget package with salary increases and other sweeteners for public servants in an overall $59.7 billion package.

(Trinidad Guardian) The National Payments Corporation of India’s (NPCI) International Payments Limited (NIPL) has signed a bilateral agreement with the Ministry of Digital Transformation (MDT) to develop a real-time and efficient payments platform similar to India’s flagship Unified Payments Interface (UPI).

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating three murders, among them a Hindu pandit and a woman, which occurred from Saturday night into yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The High Court of Justice, Family and Children Division, has issued an injunction to block reporting on the high-profile family dispute involving Daren Mark Lee Sing and Laurel Dionne Lezama-Lee Sing.

(Trinidad Guardian) With low levels of gas production and a less than favourable market, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says there will be difficult times for T&T until new gas production in 2027.

(Trinidad Guardian) The murder toll continued to climb yesterday, following the shooting deaths of two cousins and the wounding of three others, including a four-year-old child, during an attack linked to gang warfare enveloping the Malick community.

(Trinidad Guardian) Government Senator Laurel Lezama-Lee Sing has resigned. The development follows reports that an Interim Protection Order was granted against her after it was filed by her husband Daren Lee Sing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago’s murder count hit another record yesterday morning when a father of one became the island’s 24th murder victim.

(Trinidad Express) An image posted on social media indicating that Scotiabank Trinidad and Tobago Ltd is expected to have the daily limit for its ScotiaCard Visa Debit card adjusted to US$50 has caused some concern to netizens.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Justice Ivor Archie says inadequate staffing, resources, poor payment packages for judges and funding continue to impede operations within the judicial system.

(Trinidad Express) Two men were found dead in separate incidents early Thursday morning.