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Finance Minister announces Budget date
Posted: Saturday, September 3, 2022
Finance Minister announces Budget date, hints at fuel price adjustment
The public will be anxiously awaiting this year's budget presentation on September 26, after Minister of Finance Colm Imbert heavily implied that there will be yet another fuel price increase.
PM assures T&T's Economy has not collapsed
Healthcare workers to get $200 million for efforts amid pandemic
Teachers told to ‘rest' on first day of new school year
As they rejected the Government's offer of a four per cent wage increase yesterday, the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers' Association (TTUTA) said teachers will be taking Monday to rest and reflect.
Colm: Unions' requests 'unrealistic, unsustainable'
Amidst protests and discontent among Unions as a result of the CPO's 4 per cent public sector wage offer, Finance Minister Colm Imbert on Friday addressed the negotiations noting that the current offer of 4 per cent over the period of 2014-2019 (for the mainstream public service) will cost the government some $2.43 billion in arrears (backpay) calculated up to June 2023.
51% of Tobago SEA low-graders take part in improvement project
Second said the programme catered to the island's students who sat the 2022 Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) examination and scored less than 50 per cent. She said approximately 78.7 per cent of the students were eligible, but only 51 per cent of that figure participated.
Richards 4th in 200m in Brussels
The Point Fortin native finished fourth in 20.27 seconds in the Diamond League meet. The USA's Erriyon Knight won in 20.07 seconds, ahead of Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic (20.18), and Aaron Brown of Canada (20.22).
Scrap iron dealers continue to press for end to export ban
resident of the Trinidad and Tobago Scrap Iron Dealers Association (TTSIDA) Allan Ferguson maintains that Government is seeking to bring in a foreign entity to take over the scrap iron industry.
St Dominic's alleged abuser denied bail, 6 victims seek $2.5M in damages
Junior Dexter Peters, 51, was yesterday denied bail when he appeared virtually before a Port-of-Spain magistrate charged with two offences arising out of claims of sexual abuse at the St Dominic's Children's Home 25 years ago. And six former wards are now threatening to sue Peters, the St Dominic's Home, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-of-Spain and the Attorney General's Office for as much as $2.5 million in damages as a result of that alleged abuse.
Gov't officially closes homeless shelter at Riverside Plaza
Floods Hit South Trinidad Again
Firemen rescue woman from flood on Sando By-pass
Benjamin, who is in her 70s, added, "The water kept coming up, and the rain would not stop. Cars were passing in the water. After the van shut down, I tried to open the door. I could not find my cell phone to call anybody. I later found it in the back seat in a bible."
Deyalsingh's recuperation going well
After two-year wait, siblings receive bodies of murdered mother, brother
On February 28, 2020, police and fire officers went to a house fire at Petrotrin Quarters in Guapo. After putting out the fire, they found the bodies of 69-year-old Ceslyn "Linda" Farrell, her son Patrick, 48, and friend Seycelles Hannah, 41, burnt beyond recognition. The autopsies, done days after the killings, said the three were chopped and stabbed to death and the house set afire.
Trinibad artiste Kalonji shot near Brix hotel, girlfriend dead
Twenty-five-year-old Trinibad artiste Kalonji Arthur of Delaford, Tobago is fighting for his life at the hospital after he was shot multiple times in the car park of The Brix Hotel.
Woman killed in gun attack at hotel in St Ann's
Scrap-iron dealer caught with jewellery, gun
Police said between 4 pm and 7 pm on Thursday, officers were searching for illegal firearms when they exercised a search warrant at a Claxton Bay compound owned by a 36-year-old scrap-iron dealer.
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