News Clint Chan Tack 13 Hrs Ago Prime Minister Dr Rowley - Photo by Angelo Marcelle THE Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Parliament and the Office of the President (OTP) all received increased allocations for fiscal 2025 in the 2024/2025 budget. According to the Draft Estimates for Recurrent Expenditure for Financial Year 2025, the
News Corey Connelly 9 Hrs Ago Minister of Finance Colm Imbert reads the 2024/2025 national budget in the Red House, Port of Spain on September 30. - Photo by Roger Jacob FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert says the government intends to construct a five-star hotel on the Buccoo estate, Tobago, in 2025, as one of its
News Rishard Khan 9 Hrs Ago Finance Minister Colm Imbert delivers the 2025 national budget on September 30. - Photo by Roger Jacob FINANCE MINISTER Colm Imbert presented Trinidad and Tobago's fiscal budget 2024/2025 in the Parliament on September 30. Here are ten things you need to know about Imbert's budget: 1. With revenue projected
News Andrew Gioannetti 9 Hrs Ago The former Petrotrin refinery in Pointe-a-Pierre - File photo CABINET has agreed to a shortlist of three bidders for the takeover of the former Petrotrin refinery in Pointe-a-Pierre, Finance Minister Colm Imbert announced in his 2024/2025 budget presentation. The bidders are CRO Consortium (a TT-based consortium, comprising DR Commodities
Letters to the Editor Newsday 2 Hrs Ago Dr Terrence Farrell - THE EDITOR: I read where economist and former deputy governor of the Central Bank Dr Terrence Farrell said that Marla Dukharan’s analysis on billions of US dollars “missing” from this country is incorrect. “Unfortunately, Marla’s analysis and explanation is not correct. Balance of
Commentary Arthur Dash 2 Hrs Ago Daniela Godoy - DANIELA GODOY THE UNITED Nations General Assembly established September 29 as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste to promote policies that reduce poverty and hunger and help combat climate change. This is a debate that we cannot ignore. The Food and Agriculture
News Stephon Nicholas 2 Hrs Ago A man rests on a wheelbarrow on a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last Monday. - AP Minister of Caricom and Foreign Affairs Dr Amery Browne has stressed Haiti needs to lead the solutions to its challenges, supported by international co-operation. He made the statement on Saturday during a speech
Commentary Newsday 4 Hrs Ago - ON Monday, September 23, one of our recently-rescued dogs mysteriously went missing from a friend’s fenced premises where she was being held and cared for. She had been found two weeks earlier, apparently dumped, along Golden Grove Lane, a popular site for abandonment of unwanted dogs. My two friends who had seen her
Sports Jonathan Ramnanansingh 4 Hrs Ago In this August 7, 2019 file photo, Teniel Campbell of Trinidad and Tobago competes in the women's road cycling individual time trial finals at the Pan American Games in Lima Peru. (AP Photo) - TT’s pro road cyclist Teniel Campbell placed 47th in women’s road race event at the
Commentary Newsday 4 Hrs Ago Stacey Samuel-O'Brien - STACEY SAMUEL-O'BRIEN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS has rendered me physically disabled. Over the past 19 years, as the disease progressed, I regressed from walking normally, to walking with a limp, to using a cane, to currently using a walker and a mobility scooter. While I can stand and walk
Features Newsday Reporter 12 Hrs Ago Neala Luna. - THE Bocas Lit Fest has launched Term II of its Bocas Academy. In a news release on December 18, Bocas Lit Fest marketing and media manager Alette Liz Williams said the academy is "a multi-level curriculum of writing workshops and masterclasses designed to develop authors at
News Sean Douglas 13 Hrs Ago Kesha Lakhan signs the condolence book for deceased MP Lisa Morris-Julian at the Arima Borough Corporation, Xtra Plaza on December 19. - Photo by Angelo Marcelle COUNCILLORS and aldermen of the Arima Borough Council on December 19 led mourners in signing a condolence book to honour deceased MP Lisa
News Stephon Nicholas 13 Hrs Ago Well Services workers look on at the damaged rig on December 22. - PART of a drilling rig - the derrick - owned by Well Services Petroleum Company Ltd, a private company, collapsed into the sea early on the morning of December 22, sending workers on the south-west platform
Got an iPhone XS? It may be able to run iOS 19 (Image credit: Future) The same iPhones on iOS 18 may also get iOS 19 One iPad model set to be dropped with iPadOS 19 Expect official news sometime in June 2025 This year's launch of iOS 18 has brought a host of new