Asha Javeed
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$2.5 million ‘missing’ from 2020 Army Fete
ON THE heels of Friday night’s hosting of the 2023 Army Fete, documents seen by Sunday Business reveal a Board of Inquiry (BOI) report by the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment → Read More
Caribbean dockyard changes ministries
FOR THE second time in one year, a state enterprise has been shifted from one Ministry to another... with both ending up at the Ministry of Works and Transport.The Caribbean → Read More
Rate hike crucial for power reliability
AN increase in electricity rates is necessary to ensure that the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) can continue to supply its customers.In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Business, → Read More
T&TEC: Higher rates needed for debt load
LAST week, Express Business exclusively published the rate increases proposed contained in the business plan of the The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) to its regulator, the Regulated Industries → Read More
Sinking of floating drydock
SINCE August 27, the drydock at the Caribbean Dockyard & Engineering Services Ltd (CDESL) has been submerged. → Read More
CLICO can repay Govt by year end
Executive chair of CLICO, Claire Gomez-Miller, says the insurance company can clear its $1.1 billion debt to the Government of by the end of 2022. And she said the sale of CLICO’s shares in Methanol Holdings International Ltd (MHIL) is imminent. Gomez-Miller says the company is in a financial position to complete its repayment to the Government after it intervened in the insurance company in… → Read More
Colm’s best year ever
AFTER six years of cutting and contriving, Finance Minister Colm Imbert can look back at 2022 as a year that he did not have to worry about the Government’s overdraft → Read More
bmobile’s ambitious plans for Parlour
Parlour’s Mission Statement is “to take the Caribbean economy online, helping small and large businesses grow and empowering a new generation to build their lives and make their communities better.”It → Read More
Local food favourites in a snap
FOR ABOUT $20, you can b0uy a packet of choka, dhal, callaloo, pepper sauce or even green seasoning.The dehydrated product line, which is 100 per cent local, simply requires the → Read More
Pitch for sale ... online
Want to buy some pitch (bitumen/asphalt) from the Pitch Lake? → Read More
Caroni land-distribution nearly finished
NEARLY 20 years after Caroni (1975) was closed, leases to former Caroni workers, which were part of their Voluntary Separation Package (VSEP), are yet to be completed.However, the Estate Management → Read More
T&T SEC in breach of Securities Act
The Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission (T&T SEC) has breached its Act by not submitting its 2021 financial statements on time to the Ministry of Finance. → Read More
WASA in no rush to roll out residential water meters
DESPITE concerns by the Regulated Industries Commission (RIC) that metering of individual customers remains an issue at the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA), chairman of the utility, Ravi Nanga said → Read More
$31b between 2000 and 2020
FROM 2000 to 2020, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) spent over $31 billion on the fuel subsidy.The Sunday Express calculated the figure to be $31,105,200,000 based on available → Read More
WASA CEO suspended
The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has suspended its acting chief executive, Sherland Sheppard.Chairman Ravi Nanga yesterday confirmed to the Express that Sheppard was suspended on Wednesday, for two weeks. → Read More
Manning’s dream creates firsts for NGC in Ghana
FIFTEEN years after it was first announced, Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s initiative to link T&T to West Africa, through the National Gas Company (NGC), is finally getting off the ground. → Read More
NIB records $1 billion deficit
The National Insurance Board (NIB) withdrew over $1 billion from its investments to pay benefits to citizens in 2021. → Read More
Green Fund gets refreshed mandate
FOLLOWING the United Nations Congress of Parties (COP26) summit in Glasgow in November last year, Planning and Development Minister Camille Robinson-Regis mandated that the Green Fund Advisory Committee review the → Read More
CLICO fighting to get Angostura shares
CL FINANCIAL (CLF) shareholders will have to wait to get a dividend from the company which is in liquidation.In its ninth report to the Court for the period June 18 → Read More
Colfire signs sale agreement to TATIL
Colfire, one of the insurance companies in the CL Financial (CLF) group, has signed a lock-up agreement for it to be sold to TATIL, the insurance company of the ANSA → Read More