TCL shares up by $0.09
Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2017Overall market activity resulted from trading in 14 securities of which five advanced, five declined and four traded firm.Trading activity on the First Tier Market...
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More burden for taxpayers
Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2017In normal circumstances we would be celebrating the fact that the country averted a potentially crippling Petrotrin strike. Sadly, there’s little or nothing normal...
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OVERDIAGNOSIS, OVERTREATMENT FAR TOO COMMON
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, January 10, 2017The basis of good medical care is diagnosis. Tell your symptoms to the doctor and in most cases she can make a diagnosis 90 per cent of the time....
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WHAT IS THERE AFTER BP’S JUNIPER PROJECT?
Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2017Kevin RamnarineBy the time this column is published we may or may not have a strike at Petrotrin. Unfortunately, the angst and the anxiety generated around the...
View ArticleBorrowing our way out just won’t work
Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2017Most senior financial practitioners I have spoken to cannot see total Government revenue topping 30 billion dollars in 2017, while we are budgeted to spend 53...
View Article‘Good life’ causing us to eat and drink badly
Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2017I had the pleasure Saturday of reading a sensible article by Paolo Kernahan in the T&T Guardian on the subject of eating meat.The writer explained that eating...
View ArticleAll we really need is food
Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2017Ever so often there is this hue and cry about the flight of foreign currency, specifically the US dollar, which has a spin-off effect on other currencies, when the...
View ArticlePolice corruption too entrenched
Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2017The call by Monsignor Christian Pereira to the police service to get the rid of rogue officers is only going to fall on deaf ears.Corruption in the local police...
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GOD SOLVES EVERYTHING
Published: Wednesday, January 11, 2017Kevin BaldeosinghAccording to Acting Deputy Police Commissioner Wayne Dick, God helped police investigators arrest and charge a suspect in the Shannon Banfield...
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T&T’s Forbes looking ahead to more action in South America
Published: Wednesday, January 11, 2017The 26-year-old Forbes made history by becoming the first Caribbean player to be part of a Copa Libertadores Feminina side, after Sportivo Limpeño of Paraguay...
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Horse racing not dead yet
Published: Wednesday, January 11, 2017Dancing BraveWhile the horse racing industry in T&T may be on the ropes, it's not dead yet and it might prove to be a folly for anyone to write the industry...
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Southern man lives for cricket
Published: Wednesday, January 11, 2017Despite the fact that support for the sport has been dwindling over the past few years, one man still wakes up every morning with one thing on his mind and that is...
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John Williams: More teams at W/Cup positive
Published: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 The decision by the world governing body for football-FIFA, to expand the amount of teams in the World Cup to 48 has been described as a positive move for...
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Ultimate Rejects
go full extreme for Carnival and beyondJoanne BriggsPublished: Wednesday, January 11, 2017Ultimate Rejects’ Full Exteme has already been declared the people’s anthem for Carnival 2017. The hooks “we...
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Depression—not a matter of choice
Published: Wednesday, January 11, 2017MENTAL HEALTH MATTERSWe may often casually say we’re depressed, without having any stigmatising thought that we’re experiencing a mental condition. Now, it may not...
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Saintfiet resigns as Soca Warriors coach
Published: Wednesday, January 11, 2017Recently appointed coach of the senior national football team, Tom Saintfiet has resigned.Saintfiet announced his resignation on his Facebook page this morning.Now...
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Sainfiet: I should have resigned from day one
Published: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Tom Saintfiet says he should have resigned from the job as Soca Warriors head coach on the same day he was appointed.He said this because he never got the support...
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Adams confirmed as new Director of Cricket
Published: Thursday, January 12, 2017ST JOHN’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of former West Indies captain, Jimmy Adams, as its new Director of...
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Whither goes Dimanche Gras?
Peter Ray BloodPublished: Thursday, January 12, 2017Carnival Sunday night, specifically Dimanche Gras at the Queen’s Park Savannah, has been a continuing challenge to successive organisations and...
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The curse of oil and gas
Published: Thursday, January 12, 2017Review by Kevin BaldeosinghThis is basically a book on how to minimise the official corruption that is a consequence of having energy resources.The collection of 11...
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