(Trinidad Guardian) Jamaica’s Central Bank’s decision to pursue its own digital currency is as much an effort to reach out to the relative unbanked segment of the population as it is to continue the Western Caribbean country’s effort to digitise its economy.
(Trinidad Express) A private forensic report on deceased diver Kazim Ali junior found that he was alive in the pipeline after being declared dead by Paria Fuel Trading Company Limited, possibly for up to 39 hours.
(Trinidad Guardian) Just four days before her 40th birthday, Rosanna Seepersad’s husband of 23 years was killed in their bedroom while she was allegedly heavily medicated and asleep.
(Trinidad Guardian) Farmers are given a raw deal in T&T and treated with contempt, leader of the Progressive Empowerment Party (PEP) Phillip Alexander has said.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said Naparima MP Rodney Charles owes this country an apology for dining with a “racist” French parliamentarian while he represented T&T at the United Nations.
(Trinidad Guardian) The ANSA McAL Group of companies has returned to pre-pandemic profitability levels notwithstanding the enduring COVID-19 and restrictions and closures, the conglomerate’s chairman A Norman Sabga has said.
Gang violence appeared to escalate in T&T this year following the death of a known gang leader– causing power struggles among gangs – an alliance between conventional street gangs and “hired” employees and a merger among gangs involved in white-collar crime.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says in the coming days, he will meet with this country’s Ministry of Health officials to discuss the full reopening of T&T’s operations, as there has been no-post Carnival spike in COVID-19 cases.
(Trinidad Guardian) Stakeholder consultations on the idea to increase the retirement age gradually from 60 to 65 started last month with the National Union of Government and Federated Workers (NUGFW) and a meeting is also being arranged with the Public Services Association (PSA).
(Trinidad Express) The body found down a precipice off the North Coast Road last Thursday has been confirmed as that of missing Zephaniah Harripaul, 33.
(Trinidad Guardian) Just one prisoner remained at large Monday night, after five of them escaped from the Golden Grove Prison in Arouca on Sunday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) Three days after a Princes Town man was reported missing by relatives his body was found in the trunk of his vehicle along Poole Valley Road, Rio Claro by police yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) – New Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, has assured that his appointment as a member of the Cabinet is in full compliance with the Constitution.