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Heritage Petroleum records $1b profit
Posted: Sunday, June 27, 2021

Heritage Petroleum records $1b profit for 2020
"Revenue for the 12 months of 2020 was $4.7 billion vs $5.4 billion for the 10-month period in 2019. This was a consequence of substantially lower prices on the international market for our crude."

Quamina hopeful about future of Heritage
Quamina's optimism comes even as Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Ltd received a negative outlook rating from international agency Moody's. According to Moody's credit opinion dated June 2,"an upgrade is unlikely, given the negative outlook on the Government's rating." Moody's gave Trinidad Petroleum Holdings a Ba3 Corporate Family Rating.

Border reopens, free to fly from July 17
There have been successive updates about the number of locals stranded abroad since March but the Government relaxed the restrictions somewhat for the Christmas period last year and by December some 17,211 people made exemption requests to enter T&T. Of that figure, there were 9,557 exemptions granted, leaving more than 7,654 people, residents and non-residents, still outside, as T&T's borders remained closed at that time

COVID-19 death toll reaches 800 with nine new fatalities

PM: More COVID-19 vaccines coming
He revealed that the country's last shipment of vaccines from the COVAX Facility - 33,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine - was due by mid-July. T&T is also due to receive at least 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine, which is expected to be shipped by the second week of July.

PM: Private agencies can bring in vaccines if they meet criteria
Rowley said he was not open to allowing vaccines in the country if he could not vouch for its origin, efficacy and content. "We have news and information of people receiving in vials, so-called vaccines which turned out to be anything else but vaccines, saltwater and otherwise," he said.

Entry requirements: 5 things to know about T&T's border reopening
A citizen who is not vaccinated, however, must go into state-supervised quarantine for 14 days at their own expense. These individuals must also show a negative PCR test no older than 72 hours.

Govt construction reopens July 5
"We support that position that was taken. The critical data that guided that decision was the advice of the Ministry of Health and we would have to take a cue from that data. We found that the COVID-19 virus is dynamic and it is a serious risk so we would go with the advice that the health officials gave the Prime Minister," Mahabirsingh said.

Charitable organisations have a message for Donna Cox
Cox under fire for 'greed' statement...

Weekend curfew to revert to 9pm to 5am

Tobago's covid19 death toll now 24
In a statement on Saturday, the THA Division of Health, Wellness and Family Development reported the victim was a 53 year-old woman with comorbidities. It also reported there were four new covid19 patients and 119 active cases.

Kamla: Government must come clean on pensions
In Parliament on Friday, Imbert made a statement on the NIB's annual report for the year ended June 30, 2020.

Report: Over 600 bodies found at Indigenous RC school in Canada
"The nuns were very mean to us," she said. "We had to learn how to be Roman Catholic. We couldn't say our own little blessings." Nuns at the school were "condemning about our people" and the pain inflicted continues generations later, Sparvier said. "We learned how to not like who we were," she said. "That has gone on and it's still going on.'

Intelligence uncovers jailbreak plan
An elaborate and well-orchestrated jailbreak plot was being planned for months by a notorious gang within the walls of the Maximum Security Prison (MSP) in Arouca, with alleged support and involvement from several law enforcement officials. These officials are allegedly being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to assist, according to the findings of a joint team of senior prison officials and the intelligence arms of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.



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