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Napping on the job Posted: Thursday, October 6, 2022
Napping on the job On Tuesday, at 11.51 a.m., the Meteorological Office issued a Yellow Alert, warning of an adverse weather event expected to begin at 5 a.m. yesterday and continuing through to midday tomorrow. It warned about the risks of street and flash flooding, localised ponding, as well as landslips and landslides.
This was followed up with another Yellow Alert at 6.44 p.m. on Tuesday.
Tropical Wave torments Tobago
Arouca residents left in shock after flooding In just ten minutes, walls crumbled, roads cracked and cars drifted into ravines as severe flash flooding left many Arouca residents reeling on Wednesday.
Prices set to rise as Hauliers to increase rates by 20%
Contempt for hungry belly
Showing our true colours of arrogance, hubris
Calls for Guyana to share its wealth with Caricom Less developed Caricom countries are being asked to consider appealing to oil-rich Guyana to take on part of the role which T&T assumed in 2007 when it was felt T&T was flush with money, and it could share the money with T&T's Caricom brothers.
T&T scores 7 out of 100 in public participation of budget process The Open Budget Survey ranks countries according to their level of accountability in national budget processes.
Fuel subsidies should target poor people The World Bank's chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, William Maloney, said yesterday that the Washington, DC-based institution has calculated that eliminating badly designed transfers, for example fuel, tightening up on procurement and controlling wage bills can save countries in the region 17 per cent of their expenditure.
Murky waters at WASA SINCE FRIDAY, there has been a back-and-forth between the Government and Opposition over the issue of possible retrenchment at the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA).
Search for woman swept away by floodwaters in Lopinot Members of the T&T Fire Service Search and Rescue team, the Hunters Search and Rescue team, T&T Police Service and villagers were on Wednesday night trying to locate a farmer who was feared dead after she was washed away by floodwaters while attempting to cross a ravine in Surrey Village, Lopinot.
Arima man rescued after being swept away by flood waters An Arima man escaped death earlier today when he was rescued from raging flood waters by his nephew. Fifty five year old Drick Narine Pollard was trying to help his mother secure her belongings when flood waters started to rise along the Arima Old Road Dabadie around 10am.
South Trinidad gets rain, but spared wrath of weather
Make sure fuel prices can come back down While much has been made about the rise in costs incurred by customers at the pump, a local economist is of the view that the focus should not be fixed on the fact that the prices have gone up following another gradual removal of the subsidy, but that the prices at the pump come down when international prices drop.
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