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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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