Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
FERRIES, yoga lessons, millet farming and cancer treatment were just a few areas in which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to help the countries of Caricom. He addressed the Caricom-India Summit in Guyana, on November 20. Arriving from the G20 meeting in Brazil into Guyana at midnight on November 19, Modi received the keys […]
THE search for abducted Penal pensioner Winston Thomas, 68, ended when his body was found in his car around midday on November 21, on the Solomon Hochoy Highway in Golconda. Thomas was found in the back seat with his hands bound behind his back, what appeared to be a stab wound to his head, and […]
MINISTER of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds says restorative justice can provide a cheaper alternative to incarceration, plus better outcomes for both victim and offender. He was addressing the opening ceremony and panel discussion to mark Restorative Justice Week on November 18 at the Prisons Sports Club, as reported in a ministry statement. It was hosted […]
ALLUDING to an extortion link in November 19 murder of businessman Muath Nassar, both Fyzabad’s MP, Lackram Bodoe, and the head of its Chamber of Commerce are calling on police to investigate whether there is a connection and act on it. Nassar, 49, of Brentwood, Chaguanas, was shot dead around 1.30 am on November 19, […]
DIANNE Joseph, president of the TT Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI), has made her intentions clear: her time at the helm will be deliberate and finite. Joseph, elected on May 3, intends to serve a single three-year term, during which she plans to solidify TTCSI’s foundations and prepare others to assume the mantle. “Leadership is […]
Beating 34 other schools, Couva East Secondary took home the first-place trophy for the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business’ Secondary School Business Simulation Competition, with its virtual business, Broadbeam, gaining the highest cumulative earnings. The competitions saw form five and six students engage with a simulation designed to mirror the complex and challenging […]
THE EDITOR: Rushton Paray and the many other UNC members who may believe that the UNC cannot win the next general election unless there are fundamental changes in the faces of the UNC, must look at history in charting the way forward. Unlike the PNM, the UNC base has been through many incarnations. DLP, Club […]
THE EDITOR: Open letter to the Finance Minister. I write to express deep concern regarding your recent explanation for the ongoing foreign exchange (forex) shortage. Citing a 50 per cent increase in credit card usage as a primary cause for the current forex challenges is both simplistic and unacceptable. Credit cards are financial tools provided […]
YANG Han AS THE partnership between China and Trinidad and Tobago deepens, fostering enhanced collaboration, TT celebrated its fourth consecutive participation in the China International Import Expo (CIIE) this year. The event, held in Shanghai from November 5 to 10, underscored the commitment of both nations to strengthen their economic ties and explore new avenues […]
Jerome Teelucksingh ALMOST 50 years ago, in 1975, at a historic symposium on Indians in the Caribbean, VS Naipaul remarked, “We forget; we have no idea of our past; it is part of the trouble. We came from a culture that has not been much given to self-examination or to historical enquiry.” This is an […]