Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

TRINIDAD and Tobago recorded sustained growth in online and in-store purchases using Visa credentials for the holiday season, particularly for Black Friday. According to data from Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA), there was a 27 per cent increase in total transactions for Black Friday 2024 in TT compared to the same period the year before. […]

FOREIGN and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne and Communications Minister Symon de Nobriga have confirmed that they are offering themselves as nominees to be screened for the constituencies of Diego Martin West and Diego Martin Central respectively. De Nobriga is the incumbent Diego Martin Central MP. Browne, who represented Diego Martin Central from November […]

The American Chamber of Commerce of TT (Amcham) expressed appreciation to outgoing US Ambassador Candace A Bond at its ambassador’s reception on January 10. In a release on January 13, Amcham president Stuart Franco praised Bond for her leadership and the relationship that was cultivated between the chamber and the embassy during her tenure. “Under […]

THA Secretary of Infrastructure, Quarries and Urban Development Trevor James has said the Shirvan/Store Bay connector road should be completed before Carnival. He was speaking on Tobago Updates on January 13. The Shirvan/Store Bay connector road and roundabout, which was officially commissioned on August 6, 2024, comprises two roundabouts and several streets named after prominent […]

The Police Service may boast of an increase in arrests since the state of emergency was declared, but prison officers are worried. Detainees held during the SoE are expected to be housed at designated detention centres, which include the Carrera Convict Prison, the Women’s Prison, the Remand Prison at Golden Grove, and the Eastern Correctional […]

CLINT CHAN TACK & GREGORY MCBURNIE NATIONAL Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds says the State of Emergency (SoE) that was declared on December 30 has criminals on the run. He made this comment during a radio interview on January 12, one day before the House of Representatives sits to debate a motion to extend the SoE. […]

Debbie Jacob DOGS DID not fare well in the first week of the new year. If that means nothing to you, then it’s time to consider how a society’s treatment of animals reflects its values. Here we find ourselves caught in a downward spiral characterised by increasing selfishness, a blatant lack of consideration for others’ […]

BitDepth#1493 Mark Lyndersay THE MINISTRY of Digital Transformation published its National Digital Transformation Strategy for 2024-2027 and it is, in a word, an embarrassment. Under the title BOLD (Building Our Lives Digitally), the ministry proceeds, over 88 pages that manage to be both verbose and vague, to rehash the talking points it has been spewing […]

Taureef Mohammed WHEN SHE learned her mother might have had dementia, it was too late: her mother had already died. Now, sitting outside the doctor’s office with her father, who had just been diagnosed with it, she seemed haunted and disturbed – she could only think about her mother. Who had she argued repeatedly with: […]

THE EDITOR: This is an open letter to the Prime Minister. It is accepted that a country’s growth depends on efficient institutions, such as government institutions that provide services to citizens and services that make the private sector effective and more competitive, resulting in increased trade, receipt of greater foreign exchange, and increased revenues. This […]