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HSF rises to US$6.08B
Posted: Saturday, January 18, 2025

HSF rises to US$6.08B in September
T&T's Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF) reported total net asset value of US$6.08 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, which is a 12.9 per cent increase on the US$5.39 billion value the country's rainy-day fund reported as at September 30, 2023.

Imbert hails T&T's 'close to zero' inflation
The inflation rate, which measures the percentage change in the All-items Index for the month of December 2024 over December 2023, was 0.5%, the Central Statistical Office (CSO) said in a release on Wednesday.

Scotland calls for public procurement road map
PORT of Spain South MP Keith Scotland says the Office of Procurement Regulation (OPR) should develop a road map which will have the effect of ensuring entities comply with public procurement regulation and simultaneously facilitate an ease of doing business.

Procurement office unsure of role in refinery sale or lease
THE Office of Procurement Regulation (OPR) may not have a role in any decision taken to sell or lease the former Petrotrin refinery in Pointe-a-Pierre.

Young: Students should have faith in their destiny
Energy and Energy Industries Minister Stuart Young encouraged students of Port of Spain schools to have faith in their destiny as he gave the feature address at the Youth Mobilisation Foundation's Navigating Growth and Opportunities expo at the National Academy for the Performing Arts on January 17.

Amery Browne pulls out of race for Diego Martin West
This came after reports that of all contenders for the seat, only young broadcaster Hans des Vignes had so far been backed by any party groups – numbering nine – to be candidate.

$2m given to 149 steelbands
Ahead of the national Panorama small conventional band semi-finals on January 18, the Tourism, Culture and Arts Ministry distributed 149 cheques valued at more than $2 million to unsponsored steelbands at the VIP Lounge, Grand Stand, Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain on January 16.

New UK high commissioner presents credentials

SpaceX rocket explosion disrupts regional air travel
SpaceX's Starship 7 took off from Texas, US on January 16 at 4.37 pm (Texas time), 6.37 pm (TT time) and 5.37 pm (TCI time) and was expected to orbit Earth before successfully falling into the Indian Ocean.

Agriculture Ministry: No millipede infestation in Trinidad and Tobago

Keep our spaces clean, Corporation appeals to illegal dumpers

Gun amnesty removed from SoE regulations
"Cabinet was advised that in the fast-evolving circumstances of the December 29/30, 2024, regulation 11 had been lifted from the previous state of emergency precedents in 2011 and 1990," the release said.

It added that the regulation was inconsistent with the current government policy, which opposes the offering of firearms amnesties.

Hinds: TTPS having to turn away many applicants
While thousands of people apply to be police officers, National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds says many applicants are turned away as they don't meet the basic requirements.

Hinds: Many police recruits failing basic criteria

Appeal Court pays tribute to slain special prosecutor
Hector, a former prosecutor at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the former head of the legal department for the elite spy agency, Strategic Services Agency, was killed on December 31, 2024. He was shot multiple times in front of his wife and children outside the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Stanmore Avenue, Port of Spain, where he had delivered a New Year's Eve sermon.

'I wish I could get back my son'
Man crushed to death by cement truck...



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