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San Fernando West teenager Jamari Edwards remains in hospital with a bullet lodged in his liver after being shot while buying food in Fyzabad on Saturday night.
San Fernando East MP Brian Manning has accused trade union leaders of going against their membership and “kissing up” to the Prime Minister while thousands of CEPEP, URP and Forestry workers suffer.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday arrived in Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and virtual meetings with other European and U.S. leaders ahead of a planned summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin later this week.
Dionne Ligoure is stepping down from her position as Corporate Communications Executive Manager at Caribbean Airlines. Her last day on the job will be August 31. Guardian Media understands she tendered her resignation in July, and it is not linked to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s recent calls for CAL management to turn the company around.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says US energy giant, ExxonMobil, could spend between US$16.4 billion and US$21.7 billion on development costs in the ultra deepwater blocks in T&T’s territorial waters, 190 miles off Trinidad’s east coast, if the company’s initial seismic and other technical studies are successful.
Opposition Senator Faris Al-Rawi claims Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) contractors were hired for nine years without Cabinet approval.
Pan Trinbago President Beverley Ramsey-Moore is urging Government to focus on refurbishing panyards rather than constructing community centres, as panyards guide young people toward positive paths.
Former prime minister and energy minister Stuart Young has challenged claims made by the Government during yesterday’s signing of the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with ExxonMobil for Block TTUD-1.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s blunt warning to Cabinet members that she will “buss their heads” and take decisive action if they are found cavorting with Opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) members, crooked contractors, or “fake elites,” has drawn strong support from political analysts, who say this tone reflects the kind of decisive leadership the country needs.
Former trade and industry minister Stephen Cadiz says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s reading of the riot act to her ministers and Members of Parliament (MPs) is only to appeal to her UNC supporters.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) is being accused of deliberately leaving out a key paragraph from the disputed 2017 Cabinet note in a letter to the company’s new chairman. In the letter, he cautioned that the board does not have the authority to unilaterally renew multiple contracts without government approval.
Minority Leader Kelvon Morris says the Tobago House of Assembly is spending millions on overseas trips while local businesses, workers, and even Government offices can’t get paid or supplied with basics like toilet paper.
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