Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

IN A two-part series, Business Day interviewed economics students to learn their perspectives on the proposed 2024/2025 budget. While their review of the budget aligned with their original hopes, themes of accountability, effective resource management and economic stability were central to their critiques. Hopes for digitalisation, government aid, urban growth On September 30, Newsday interviewed […]

Students expressed deep concern about their future amid increasing economic pressures and rising crime rates at the Conference on the Economy (COTE) post-budget forum held on October 10 at UWI’s St Augustine campus. Panellists economists Marlene Attz and Dave Seerattan, former energy minister Kevin Ramnarine, Prof Roger Hosein and Dr Ricardo Lalloo collectively emphasised, “The […]

BMOBILE will be a major sponsor of the third edition of Tobago’s October carnival. In a news release on October 16, the mobile division of state-owned telecommunications company TSTT said, “As the carnival continues to grow, bmobile renewed its partnership with Tobago Festivals Commission Ltd (TFCL) to deliver a connected festival experience for both local […]

THE Standing Finance Committee has approved a $29,925,500 allocation in the 2024/2025 budget for the Central Administrative Services Tobago (CAST). The approval was done at a meeting on October 16 at the House of Representatives, Port of Spain. Before this allocation was approved, Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) Ayanna Webster-Roy said […]

FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert says his ministry is examining the role the new TT Revenue Authority (TTRA) could have in relation to revenue-collection in Tobago. He made this comment before the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives approved a budgetary allocation of $2,580,755,600 for the THA on October 16. On September 16, the […]

A journalist has apologised to contractor Krishna Lalla for an online publication he wrote and posted on two websites in 2020. Aleem Khan also agreed to retract the article published on February 20, 2020, headlined: Where did the money go? Lalla’s Panama properties found, on his www.news.co.tt and www.connectas.org websites. Khan’s apology and agreement were […]

As part of the First Peoples Heritage Week, the chief of the Santa Rosa First Peoples, Ricardo Bharath Hernandez, hosted a remembrance event at the Red House on October 16. The event was centered around the monument outside the Red House where 60 of the country’s First Peoples were reburied in 2019 after their remains […]

THE Central Statistical Office (CSO) has revealed a year-on-year inflation rate of 0.4 per cent in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) data report for September 2024. The rate marks a significant decline from the inflation rate of 3.9 per cent recorded in September 2023, indicating a period of relative stability in price levels. The inflation […]

SECONDARY Schools Football League (SSFL) premier division frontrunners St Benedict’s College (28 points) will go after a tenth straight win in the ongoing season when they host the “Green Machine” of St Augustine Secondary (14 points) in round 11 action at the Mahaica Sporting Complex, Point Fortin from 3.30 pm on October 16. All matches […]

Joshua Da Silva (75 off 61 balls) and opener Kjorn Ottley (54 off 51) both scored half-centuries as the Joshua Da Silva XI earned a 65-run victory against the Amir Jangoo XI in the second TT Red Force trial match at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy (BCLA), Tarouba on October 14. Da Silva scored 49 […]