Author: Sean Douglas
PNM general secretary Foster Cummings is giving the PNM Tabaquite constituency executive two weeks to invite nominees to be screened to be the prospective candidate in the upcoming general election, Newsday was told on February 18. Newsday calculated this deadline to be March 5. After nominations are received, a date will then be set for […]
RETIRED police inspector Michael Seales kept his cards close to his chest when Newsday contacted him on February 18 about the possibility of his running as the PNM prospective candidate for Tabaquite in the upcoming general election. The former head of the Police Service Social and Welfare Association (PSSWA) stood as PNM candidate in 2020, […]
AS of December 15, some 198 retired police officers were still awaiting the payment of their pension and gratuity, Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds told the House of Representatives on February 5. He was answering a question by Couva South MP Rudranath Indarsingh. Hinds said the Government has made and will continue to make […]
EDUCATION Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said learning to play the steel-pan can actually inculcate lifelong good habits in youngsters, speaking to Newsday at the Junior Panorama Finals at Queen’s Park Savannah on February 2. Newsday caught up with her, between her regular trips from the Grandstand to the Drag to encourage each group of young […]
THE PNM is considering two people from the field of education as possible nominees to contest the Cumuto/Manzanilla seat in the general election, sources told Newsday on January 31. The first is Wayne Gransam, a retired principal who now serves as assistant secretary of the PNM’s Cumuto/Manzanilla constituency executive. The second is a very highly-qualified […]
THE Prime Minister said he keenly looked forward to retirement, while confident he was leaving the country in good hands politically, as he bade farewell to PNM party members of his Diego Martin West constituency at a cocktail reception on February 1 at Diego Martin South Community Centre. Also attending were most of his Cabinet […]
ENERGY Minister Stuart Young signed the award of two production-sharing contracts (PSCs) for two blocks of shallow-water marine acreage for EOG Resources Ltd on January 29 at his ministry at the International Waterfront Centre, Port of Spain. EOG Resources Inc is one of the largest crude oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in […]
OROPOUCHE East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal has described the questioning of Commissioner of Police (CoP) Erla Harewood-Christopher as “quite disturbing,” in a reaction to the shocking development on January 30. Newsday reported that police officers from the Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Intelligence and Investigations had reportedly detained Harewood-Christopher at […]
IN light of criticism of the coast guard’s losing a mystery boat containing several dead bodies, Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds defended the Government, saying it had provided adequate patrol boats to secure the waters around Trinidad and Tobago. He spoke in a radio interview on January 27. On January 25, workers on Cassia […]
A JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE (JSC) of Parliament on January 24 urged action to stem the import and sale of the weight-loss drug Ozempic, now being sold in an unregulated manner across TT. The committee also examined the sale of the popular vitamin C supplement Emergen-C. The JSC on Local Authorities, Service Commissions and Statutory Authorities […]