The State can­not trans­form T&T by it­self, Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion Min­is­ter Has­sell Bac­chus has said.

The draft work­place COVID vac­ci­na­tion pol­i­cy needs to be “fi­nalised, cir­cu­lat­ed, and tabled for im­ple­men­ta­tion” as a mat­ter of ur­gency, the Joint Cham­bers said yes­ter­day as it joined the call by the Trade Unions Fed­er­a­tions to have this done.

Touch­stone Ex­plo­ration Inc has en­coun­tered sub­stan­tial hy­dro­car­bon ac­cu­mu­la­tions as the com­pa­ny has an­nounced that it has com­plet­ed drilling the Roys­ton-1 ex­plo­ration well.

“A&V Oil and Gas Lim­it­ed saved you the tax­pay­ers of this coun­try from hav­ing to fork out mil­lions of dol­lars by agree­ing to set­tle our le­gal dis­pute with Petrotrin,” said its chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Hanif Baksh.

Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal dis­trib­ut­ing pow­er­hous­es Smith Robert­son and Com­pa­ny Ltd and Os­car Fran­cois Lim­it­ed have been amal­ga­mat­ed.

To­ba­go should get at least an­oth­er bil­lion dol­lars in the up­com­ing bud­get to be used as a stim­u­lus.

This bud­get comes at a time when the gains of vac­ci­na­tion world­wide con­tin­ue to be threat­ened by the rel­a­tive­ly large num­ber of peo­ple who ei­ther don’t have ac­cess to vac­cines or sim­ply refuse to take them. This has led to the emer­gence of vari­ants, in­clud­ing the dead­ly Delta that has killed so many in In­dia and across the world.

Bailiffs have seized all of the equip­ment from the Wendy’s Ch­agua­nas out­let be­cause of out­stand­ing rent owed.

In some good news for the T&T en­er­gy sec­tor bp Trinidad and To­ba­go LLC (bpTT) yes­ter­day an­nounced that pro­duc­tion has start­ed from its Mat­a­pal gas project ear­li­er than ex­pect­ed.

In Jan­u­ary 2010 the min­i­mum wage reached dou­ble dig­its for the first time when it was in­creased to $12.50 an hour.

Fran­ka Costel­loe has been ap­point­ed the chair­per­son of In­vesTT Lim­it­ed board of di­rec­tors.

As lo­cal ca­pac­i­ty in Guyana con­tin­ues to in­crease, Exxon­Mo­bil says more ser­vices are be­ing moved from Trinidad and To­ba­go to the South Amer­i­can coun­try, where it is the op­er­a­tor of the Stabroek, Kai­eteur and Can­je Blocks, a re­port from Oil­NOW has stat­ed.