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PRICE PINCH
Posted: Wednesday, January 4, 2023
PRICE PINCH
Complaints as higher seabridge fares kick in
$1.3m budget for Tobago Carnival
Cultural icon Rawle Titus has died
Titus was a cultural performer, calypsonian, musical genius and activist who served Trinidad and Tobago in several capacities, including the teaching profession, Government Senator during the 7th Republican Parliament and as Vice-President of the Senate during the 8th Republican Parliament.
T&TEC's sting in the tail
A CNC3/Sunday Guardian report on January 16, 2021, stated that T&TEC was owed $1.4 billion by delinquent customers. The Government owed $1.2 billion of that amount. Commercial and residential customers owed $264.4 million. How much of this outstanding balance has T&TEC collected in the past two years?
Ambassador to China meets with Minister Cox
Among topics discussed were the need for greater synergies between both offices, strategies to combat fraud, opportunities for training and data-driven frameworks for effective delivery of social services.
Cox updated Low on the ministry's ongoing and upcoming initiatives, particularly the National Register for Vulnerable Persons, the Suicide Prevention Hotline, and the National Grandparenting Programme.
She also emphasised on strengthening the ministry's social safety net to better serve the most vulnerable in society, in order to lift them out of poverty.
12 schools remain closed as new term starts
Six new covid deaths in past week
Further details indicated the vulnerability of the deceased who were described as "three elderly males and three elderly females", of whom five had multiple comorbidities and one had none.
Publish Paria report - Ramesh says it must be laid in Parliament
"The public would want to know what recommendations are made, what evidence has been assessed by the commissioners so I think the Government can be commended for having such a commission of enquiry and if the report which is done is not published, I think the population would be very disappointed," said Maharaj.
Justice Seepersad to receive India's highest non-resident award
Seepersad is one of the 30 awardees this year, recommended by Jury-cum-Awards Committee.
Relatives seek answers in teen's drowning at Tyrico Bay
As the search continues for the 19-year-old San Juan resident who reportedly drowned at Tyrico Bay on New Year's Day, a relative yesterday said the family was seeking answers, since the details in the matter were not adding up to them.
Regiment bullets found on 5th crime scene, as woman shot
SEVEN spent shells with the markings of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment were found at the scene of a shooting in Maloney on New Year's Day.
Relatives of murdered Carapo truck driver: He didn't deserve this
The relatives of a 29-year-old Carapo truck-driver were left baffled as to the motive for the killing as they insist he lived well with others.
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