Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

ON October 24, staff and students from the Penal Presbyterian Primary School at SS Erin Road took to the streets of Penal in a vibrant display of colours for the school’s annual walkathon. This year’s theme, Iconic TT: People, Places and Practices, aimed to instil a sense of national pride and encourage patriotic behaviour among […]

FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert will go to Paris, France on November 6 to sign a treaty that could take Trinidad and Tobago off two global blacklists for tax administration. At a virtual press conference on November 5, Imbert said he will first fly to Paris to sign a treaty focused on transparency and exchange of […]

A 26-year-old Piarco man has appeared before a master of the High Court charged with the murder of taxi driver Roger Bailey. Bailey, a former soldier, was shot dead during a robbery while plying his car for hire in La Horquetta on October 27. Police said he picked up a man at Fantastic Grocery, La […]

CLINICAL therapist and traumatologist Hanif Benjamin says the entire situation involving Hannah Mathura’s death has been bizarre and her mother’s death will have an even more complicated effect on the Mathura siblings. Alana Mathura, 63, who was jointly charged with her husband for the murder of her daughter Hannah, died on November 1. Newsday understands […]

Trini-born Americans who cast their ballots in the US on November 5 shared a mix of thoughts on the voting process and their expectations for the upcoming election as vice president Kamala Harris faces off against former president Donald Trump. Voters described the experience as straightforward and convenient. However, their reflections also revealed deep concerns […]

Two precincts in Georgia and North Carolina for voting in the US presidential election will remain open until 7.58 pm and 8 pm ET respectively (8.58 pm and 9 pm local time) after receiving bomb threats and reported technical issues earlier on Tuesday. CNN has reported that Government Communications director Joe Sorenson said two precincts […]

Shaquill Mills, 23, died on November 5 after his car slammed into a walkover on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway (CRH). Around 5 am, police responded to reports of an accident on the eastbound lane of the CRH near La Horquetta. Officers found a blue Chevy with registration plate PCS 6178 which had crashed into one […]

The 2024 US presidential election pitted vice president Kamala Harris against former president Donald Trump and is widely regarded as one of the most historic ever. Days before the election, more than 80 million Americans had already cast their ballots early. Harris, who has served as the first woman and first woman of colour in […]

FORMER finance minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira says an alleged breach of privacy by Finance Minister Colm Imbert, in inquiring about whether or not an importer approached the EximBank for a foreign exchange (forex) request, is unacceptable. She also said this is part of the well known political strategy of deflection, to divert the public’s attention from […]

THE GOVERNMENT’S decision to resume the importers’ limb of the EximBank’s preferential access window – at a reduced allocation of US$25 million per month – falls short of what is required to address the foreign exchange situation comprehensively. On November 3, Minister of Finance Colm Imbert announced the window was back, but “in a restructured […]