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TT talking to Venezuela over Guyana border row
Posted: Friday, January 29, 2021
Rowley: TT talking to Venezuela over Guyana border row
With Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro re-stating a long-standing claim to two-thirds of Guyana including oil-rich areas, Dr Rowley said the Government has been very busy on this matter, being in constant communication with the Venezuelan government.
Young confirms bringing in 39 Hondurans as Kamla slams move
Young advised that diplomats are not the only ones allowed entry into the country as he works with the private sector to ensure that economic activity continues. "As I have said repeatedly, we at National Security have been working with the oil and gas sector, as well as, the manufacturing sector, to permit managed entry into Trinidad and Tobago."
Kamla queries exemption given to 17 embassy workers
11 new covid19 cases, no new deaths
The number of people tested for the virus has also increased to 82,866.
Transparency: Corruption score the same but could have been worse
Barbados, the island with the highest anti-corruption ratings in the region, scored 64, gaining two points from the year before. Guyana, which stood shoulder to shoulder with TT in the index last year, has passed this country by one point to make its rating a 41.
KAMLA VOTED
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar did vote on her motion of no confidence in Minister of National Security Stuart Young.
PNM: THA resolution can take up to six months
After the Assembly's clerk Merna McLeod did four polls for the position— two by secret ballot and two via a public vote—the deadlock remained.
Daly disagrees THA Executive Council continues in office
"It does not seem to me to make logical sense that while the old assembly is dissolved, the Executive Council remains in place but you can have no parliamentary scrutiny of that Executive Council of the Tobago House of Assembly," Daly said.
Rowley: Let Tobago resolve THA impasse
Rowley said the THA executive council led by Ancil Dennis will stay in office until the matter is resolved, although he didn't expect they stay there four years.
Can the Tobago economy stand on its own?
Well, Tobago-born economist Dr Vanus James believes that Tobago's economy must be seen in the context of what he calls Tobago's waters and the hydrocarbons that are contained in them. He argued that Tobago's waters encompasses 60 per cent of all the maritime boundary of Trinidad and Tobago and that the recent BHP/BP gas find in the Northern License and the Shell Barracuda and Colibri projects are really Tobago's gas projects.
TT crying as Singing Sandra passes on
Her songs and messages were so potent that on any given day, while walking through Port of Spain, the strains of her 1999 winning song Voices in the Ghetto or her 1987 hit Die With my Dignity could be heard, along with many of her others. Singing Sandra's Paramin also paid tribute to Christmas celebrations in the Maraval village.
JTUM suggests Ministers take lesser salaries to increase public wages
"As for concerns about cost, surely there is room for adjustment in the compensation of ministers who make in excess of $50,000 per month or the managers in state-owned enterprises who award themselves large pay increases."
PM Rowley 'doing well' and on medication, after heart procedure
The second pandemic has already begun
Huge numbers of patients with chronic diseases have fallen off the map in both the public and private sectors. Given that in TT, almost all our health problems are from chronic diseases requiring constant follow-up (one in two die from heart disease or diabetes alone), this means that we are setting ourselves up for an almighty disaster in the coming years.
For flushing children's heads in toilet, ex-principal to pay
RETIRED principal of Blackman's Private School in Maraval, Arlene Blackman, has been ordered by the court to compensate two former pupils in the sum of $20,000 each for putting their heads in a toilet bowl and flushing it back in 2012.
Lawyer appeals attempted murder conviction
AN attorney who was sentenced to 19 years' imprisonment after he was found guilty in 2017 of ordering a hit on his secretary back in 2001, is challenging his conviction for attempted murder.
Body of drowned Couva teen found at Maracas
Four days after he went missing after going for a swim, Amali Lawrence's body washed ashore on Maracas Bay early on Thursday morning.
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