November 8, 2024
Trinidad and Tobago government seeks removal from the European Union tax blacklist.
Finance Minister Colm Imbert arrived in Paris on Wednesday as the Trinidad and Tobago government moves to have the country removed from the European Union tax blacklist. Imbert told a virtual news conference that he will be signing the Multilateral…
January 10, 2024
Trinidad records several Murders in January 2024
Trinidad and Tobago has witnessed a distressing start to the new year with 15 killed in just the first week. This grim statistic is more than double the country’s murder toll for the corresponding period in 2023. Reports are that at the same time…
June 11, 2023
Global Management Consulting Firm McKinsey & Company Recognizes Sacha Cosmetics as One of the Top 3 Oldest Black Beauty Brands in the World
SACHA, a leading cosmetics brand, has been acknowledged by McKinsey & Company as one of the three oldest Black beauty brands worldwide. However, with the oldest brand Afro Sheen off the market for several years and the unfortunate bankruptcy of…
April 11, 2023
Supermarket owners want licensed firearms after colleague shot and killed
President of the Supermarket Association of Trinidad and Tobago (SATT), Rajiv Diptee on Monday called on the police to provide business owners with a gun license after gunmen shot and killed a 49-year-old supermarket owner over the weekend. Diptee,…
December 29, 2022
Trinidadian Recording Artist & icon- Black Stalin has passed away.
81-year-old, T & T Calypsonian, Leroy Calliste aka the Black Stalin has passed away. He died peacefully at home around 9.45 am with his family around him. Recently he spent three weeks at the San Fernando General Hospital where the nurses and…
October 4, 2022
7 suspects robbed a family, 4 did not survive
A police report stated that around 7 a.m. the 43-year-old businessman and his wife, aged 42, who are both of Chinese descent, left their home in their vehicle and headed to Rio Claro. They returned home to their home at Krista Park, Beaumont Road,…
September 5, 2022
Education setback after Covid’
Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley yesterday put the country on alert that the school-age population had been seriously impacted by the existence of the Covid pandemic. He said the concern that the pandemic has had on the education of the children had…
June 15, 2022
Haiti aims to close Nations League window & T&T take victory over St. Vincent
A June double window of matches in the CONCACAF Nations League B closes on Tuesday night with two matches that will go a long way toward deciding which teams are playing in League A in the next tournament, who goes to the 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup and…
June 14, 2022
Central Bank says recent high international energy prices have boosted local economy
The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) Monday said signs of a fairly broad-based economic recovery became more evident during the fourth quarter of 2021 and that economic activity in the non-energy sector will continue to recover as the full…
April 7, 2022
CXC launches new education tool
The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has launched a new Data Intelligence Gateway online platform that it says will allow it to serve its regional stakeholders more efficiently. “No institution can prosper at this moment in our…