Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

ENERGY Minister Stuart Young has said Trinidad and Tobago earned approximately US$2,310,000,000 in revenue from taxation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) revenues from 2020-2023. He made this comment in a written response to a question from Opposition Senator Wade Mark. Young’s response was filed in the Senate on November 26. The taxation earned from LNG […]

Trinidad and Tobago’s men’s beach soccer team have been grouped with defending champions USA for the 2025 Concacaf Beach Soccer Championship which will be held at the Malcolm Park Beach Soccer Facility, Nassau, Bahamas from March 11-16, 2025. The draw was confirmed by Concacaf on November 26, with TT also drawn with Panama and the […]

Malvern Sports Club’s Willard Harris was elected unopposed as president when the TT Hockey Board (TTHB) observed its elections at its 27th annual council meeting at Olympic House, PoS on November 26. Harris will now ascend to the vacant presidential seat after the resignation of former TTHB president Roger St Rose back in May. Via […]

DEPUTY Chief Secretary Dr Faith BYisrael said she is excited about some parts of the Salary Review Commission’s (SRC) recommendation of increases for public officials, including members of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA). However, she said such talks are insensitive in the current climate, where public-sector workers are being offered a salary increase of […]

SIGNAL Hill stormed into the 2024 Secondary Schools’ Football League (SSFL) Coca-Cola National Intercol semifinals after thumping Miracle Ministries 6-0 in the last quarter-final tie at Ato Boldon Stadium in Balmain, Couva, on November 26. Two first half goals from Jermaine Morgan combined with one each from Kyle James, Emmanuel Wright, Antonio Hopkins and Israeli […]

IT’S NOT a good time to be a migrant. All over the world, politics has been poisoned. Foreigners are being blamed for unemployment, for crime, for poor healthcare, for everything. Of course, xenophobia has always existed. But America’s choice to re-elect Donald Trump on November 5 has added a veneer of legitimacy to the dog […]

Days after hammering Moruga Secondary 17-0 to win the Secondary Schools Football League Coca-Cola south zone intercol trophy, Pleasantville Secondary added a second title to their 2024 trophy cabinet after they sank Five Rivers Secondary 3-0 in the girls’ Big 5 final at Ato Boldon Stadium in Balmain, Couva, on November 26. A goal in […]

Minister of Housing and Urban Development Camille Robinson-Regis says whether the Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar accepts the Salaries Review Commission’s (SRC’s) recommendations or not, once passed in Parliament, opposition members will have no choice but to accept it. Robinson-Regis spoke to the media after the opening ceremony of the La Horquetta Public Library at Slinger […]

ATTORNEY Jagdeo Singh is advocating for the placing of electronic bracelets on every lawbreaker, as an effective tool to crime reduction in the country. A panelist at the UNC Town Hall meeting on Justice Reform at the Barataria Community Centre on November 25, Singh made the case for “placing an electronic bracelet on every person […]

Charges have been re-laid against the seven officers whose case collapsed after being charged with Misbehaviour in Public Office. A media release by the police on November 26 said the charges were re-laid after discussions with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The case was initially dismissed on November 18 owing to […]