Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

Paolo Kernahan I LOVE A good podcast. Know any? Ouch! Lately, I’ve been finding it hard to keep these podcasts down. There’s one basic shortcoming endemic among many of them. For several practitioners of this “updated” format, their interview skills are…dodgy. It’s deeply frustrating to arrive at the cul-de-sac of a two-hour podcast having endured […]

THE EDITOR: I was heartened to see articles in the newspapers this week signalling the Minister of Finance’s support for financial inclusion and more digital transactions. The Government is the single largest collector of payments in the country, collecting taxes and payments for services from the citizenry. It therefore stands to reason that any strategy […]

AFTER a countrywide effort, the National Advisory Committee on Constitutional Reform received just 816 submissions from members of the public. It held 14 town hall meetings attended by 381 people and three youth events attended by 70. It received 32 submissions from civil society organisations, three from political parties, 11 from constitutional offices, and eight […]

The Kali Yatra Festival which aims to celebrate and shed positive light on goddess Kali Maa will take place at the NCIC Divali Nagar in Chaguanas, from August 27-September 1. The festival traces its roots to the visionary idea of Gopaul “Rick” Ragoonanan and his family, who aspired to create a unique event in Trinidad […]

PAN TRINBAGO hosted their annual Pan and Powder Parade through Port of Spain on August 21. Starting at 5 pm at City Hall, the parade progressed along Keate and Frederick Streets before arriving at the Queen’s Park Savannah. Steelbands including the Siparia Deltones, Pamberi, Courts Sound Specialists, Desperadoes, Phase II Pan Groove, Massy Trinidad All […]

THE Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) announced senior executive, external relations, Gianpiero Leoncini as its new vice president on August 21. In a media release, CAF said executive president Sergio Diaz-Granados appointed him after consultation with the institution’s board. “In accordance with article 48 of CAF’s general regulations, the executive vice president is the […]

AVID “Blindy” Reece, 47, of Upper Cocorite Terrace was shot dead on August 21, at his home. Police said at 8.35 pm, that day, they got information of a man with gunshot wounds near Upper Waterhole in Cocorite. They found a large group of people around Reece’s body, but he was already dead. The crime […]

TYRELL Alvarez, 27, of Sangre Grande was shot dead in his bedroom early on August 22. Police said around 12.30 am they got a report of gunshots at Bailey Avenue, Northeastern Settlement, Sangre Grande. An informant found Alvarez with a single gunshot wound to his head, in his bedroom. Police took Alvarez to the Sangre […]

TWO Trinidad and Tobago nationals, Nestor Garcia and Reyad Mohammed, have been selected to receive fully-funded scholarships to pursue their master’s degrees in the UK, said the British High Commission in a press release on August 22. Garcia, a UWI graduate was part of the award winning delegate at the 65th Harvard National Model United […]

PORT OF SPAIN: Defending Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) champions Barbados Royals got off to a winning start in this year’s tournament with a thrilling one-wicket win over the Guyana Amazon Warriors at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba on August 21. In a repeat of last year’s final, the Royals were led […]