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Over US$3b on fuel imports
Posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Government spends over US$3b on fuel imports
Manatee field one step closer to final decision
The Manatee field is part of the cross-border Loran-Manatee discovery, shared by Trinidad and Venezuela. The field is believed to hold around 10 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas, with 7.3 Tcf on Venezuela's side and the remaining 2.7 Tcf on Trinidad's side.
Vieira: Government should explain Dragon gas policy
Too young to solar
The T&T Electricity Act is unsurprisingly outdated and was written nine years before the first solar cell was invented at Bell Laboratories.
The Act does not recognise that energy can be generated (from solar and other renewable energy sources) in smaller quantities in a distributed manner (in homes and businesses) and that this energy can be consumed at the source of generation. The outdated Electricity Act is the main source of all regulatory challenges.
T&T gets new Minimum Wages Board
The ministry listed eight items which were achieved over the previous board's tenure.
It included the review of the 2019 Minimum Wages Order; the Domestic Workers Order; the impact of COVID-19 on minimum wage earners; the Wages Regulation/Agricultural Undertakings Order, 1964; the Catering Industry Order; the concept of a living wage and its applicability in T&T; Security Industry Employees Order of 1995; and administrative reports for fiscal 2021 and 2022.
Bandits rob Sando grandmom and autistic daughter
The 65-year-old widow and grandmother of two had intended to visit the bank later yesterday to deposit money she had collected days earlier from tenants of rental properties.
Businesswoman, daughter to leave T&T after home invasion
Anger after cop's boyfriend killed by police
Son killed by police
'True servant of the people' Terry Rondon dies
Terry Rondon dies
The archbishop's shaky soapbox
On Sunday morning an acquaintance forwarded to me, via WhatsApp, a video recording of RC Archbishop Jason Gordon speaking about something labelled "Colonial Deception of the EU-OACP Agreement". I knew what it was about because one of the TV stations had carried Gordon's remarks on the issue. Then last week, a newspaper had a long report on what the Archbishop said.
Man dies 13 days after being beaten, doused with gas
A police report stated that shortly before midnight on November 12 while at Boissiere Trace in Gran Couva, Kowlessar and the suspect, who is a cousin, had an argument which escalated into a fight.
Kowlessar was badly beaten and slammed into a wall, which left him unconscious. While on the ground, the suspect doused him with gasoline and lit him on fire. Other relatives extinguished the fire and took him to hospital, where he was warded for first-degree burns.
22 Venezuelans held in Erin for illegal entry
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