Trinidad & Tobago Newsday

ANGOSTURA chairman Terrence Bharath says that the company does not deplete the limited foreign exchange available in the country, but instead brings in US dollars and facilitates the import of foreign products through its own foreign exchange reserves. He made this statement during Angostura’s Earning Call meeting at the House of Angostura, Laventille on December […]

SCOTIABANK TT has reported a profit after tax of $658 million for the fiscal year ended October 31, marking a $3 million increase compared to the previous year’s restated figure. Earnings per share rose to $3.73 from $3.71. Managing director Gayle Pazos highlighted the bank’s key achievements in a media statement, saying, “I am pleased […]

A MAN wearing a Santa hat and beard was among three men who held up an automotive parts store in San Fernando on December 9. The four victims told police they were at the store on Jones Street, San Fernando, when around 9.15 am, three masked men came in. One, who was armed with a […]

HOUSING and Urban Development Minister Camille Robinson-Regis says two Housing Development Corporation (HDC) settlements in Rio Claro are not at risk from flooding. She made this clear while responding to questions from Mayaro MP Rushton Paray in the House of Representatives on December 9. Robinson-Regis said the El Guayanapo and Mora Heights housing developments “were […]

A 44-YEAR-OLD construction worker has been convicted of raping a tenant of his St James apartment in 2012. He was found guilty by Justice Kathy Ann Waterman-Latchoo after a judge-only trial on December 9, and will be sentenced on December 16. According to the evidence presented at the trial by prosecutor Dylan Martin, the victim […]

For the first time in decades, a Caribbean jurist has sat on a Privy Council appeal. On December 9, Dame Janice Pereira, former chief justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC), presided over an appeal from the Virgin Islands. In a statement on its website, the Privy Council said Pereira will take part in […]

KISWAH Chaitoo lost his appeal against the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board’s (TTCB) January 10 motion of no confidence moved against him, which resulted in his February 28 removal as treasurer. In a 50-page judgment issued by the seven-member Supreme Appellate Committee (SAC) on December 9, they found Chaitoo in “flagrant breach” of Article 27 […]

Central Division police have arrested three people, including a woman, in connection with a report of robbery with violence in the district. Up to December 9, the suspects remained in custody without charge. Police arrested the three, of Enid Village in Rio Claro, after a report from a Tabaquite resident on December 6. The man […]

THE House of Representatives passed one bill designed to give Tobago greater autonomy, but failed to pass a second bill on December 9. The latter required a three-fourths majority for passage, but the government was unable to get the opposition’s support for this to happen. In the House, this equates to 31 MPs. The Tobago […]

THE Prime Minister says Caricom will be invited to send observers to Trinidad and Tobago for the next general election. Dr Rowley dismissed repeated claims by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar about the PNM’s trying to steal the election through recommendations by the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) to change constituency boundaries. Rowley claimed Persad-Bissessar had […]