Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

BUSINESSMAN and former executive chairman of CL Financial Group Lawrence Duprey has died. Although an official announcement is yet to be made, sources told Newsday he “died peacefully” on August 24. Duprey inherited Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) from his uncle Cyril Duprey and expanded it into a conglomerate CL Financial, which included Colonial Life […]

THE funeral of former National Council of Indian Culture (NCIC) president Deokinanan Sharma will be held on August 25 at 10 Woodlands, Valsayn at 9 am. An NCIC release said there would also be a viewing at the NCIC Divali Nagar Site at 10.30 am before he is cremated at the Caroni Cremation Site at […]

FORMER Couva/Point Lisas chamber president Mukesh Ramsingh was the only one of 18 people screened by the People’s National Movement (PNM) on August 23, to be selected as a candidate for the 2025 general election. Ramsingh was selected from among five candidates, including Kiran Singh, head of the San Fernando Greater Chamber; Kindell Mc Intosh; […]

INDIAN Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita visited Trinidad and Tobago on August 23 to deepen ties between the two countries and their people. This was the first ministerial-level visit to Trinidad and Tobago since April 2017, the Indian High Commission said in a news release on August 24. During the visit, Margherita […]

TOBAGO Chamber of Industry and Commerce president Curtis Williams says Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) has assured that the island will have additional flights for its October carnival. The Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago, he added, also said there will be additional sailings to the island throughout the period. The carnival, now in its third […]

Impressive cyclist Makaira Wallace showcased her undoubted quality on the world’s stage at the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Junior Track World Championships in Luoyang, China on August 24 when she copped a silver medal in the women’s 500-metre time trial. On August 22, Wallace shattered her own national women’s sprint record in the qualifying round […]

AUGUST is supposed to be a month of celebration. Instead, when the protective services line up at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, for the Independence Day parade, they will do so under the pall of spiralling murders. Instead of the focus being on 62 years of autonomy, it will be on a year […]

THE EDITOR: We listened with rapt attention as Keith Scotland SC delivered the PNM’s findings and proposals on constitutional reform at the PNM convention on August 18, never failing to underscore the importance and value of this exercise. To my great satisfaction and that of my reluctant, sceptical 17-year-old grandson, unlike other undertakings of this […]

THE EDITOR: On Sunday afternoon I watched online as the PNM held a special national convention to deal with the party’s submission to the National Advisory Committee on Constitutional Reform, which submitted its report following a lengthy national consultation. What I saw was a political party led by its executive leadership taking decisions on matters […]

DINESH RAMBALLY “Trinidad is pan. Pan is African. Why does this fact find so much opposition ridicule?” – Leroy Clarke, Express, February 6, 1998 THE ERUPTION of controversy and racial animus triggered by the Prime Minister’s out-of-nowhere announcement about placing the steelpan on the coat of arms has apparently served its purpose. Now no one […]