Monday, February 13, 2012
WEEKLY BULLETIN for week ended February 10, 2012
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Monday, February 13, 2012
President Barack Obama is pressing for investments in infrastructure while relying on familiar tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to claim progress on the federal deficit in his upcoming budget.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Demonstrators set buildings ablaze and fireballs lit up the night sky in Greece’s capital amid widespread rioting before a historic parliamentary vote today on harsh austerity measures designed to prevent the country from going bankrupt.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
British tax authorities said yesterday that four current and one former member of staff at the Royal Bank of Scotland had been arrested in an investigation into alleged tax fraud.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
With testimony about bribes, blood oaths, faked profits and secret Swiss bank accounts, the ongoing fraud trial of jailed and former jet setting Texas tycoon R Allen Stanford has had its share of drama.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
As natural gas prices continue to drop, the recent US boom in drilling is slowing. Drillers don’t make money if prices go too low — and drilling wells isn’t cheap.
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
As T&T gears up to celebrate its 50th year of Independence (August 31), Angostura’s manager–corporate communications Giselle Laronde-West feels T&T can take immense pride in its locally-produced rums.
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Women are rising to the Angostura Cocktail Challenge. Angostura communications manager Giselle Laronde-West said she was immensely pleased there were four female competitors for C2k12.
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education is gearing up to train 100 Nigerian nationals at the National Energy Skills Centre (NESC) in Pt Lisas.
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Even as the $26 billion mortgage settlement helps hundreds of thousands of troubled homeowners, it will bring a wave of new foreclosures. Many lenders held off on repossessing homes during the complex negotiations between 49 state attorneys general...
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