AG steps aside

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has temporarily relinquished his responsibilities for the Central Authority, paving the way for the police investigating the e-mail matter to seek foreign assistance if they need it. Sources said yesterday that Ramlogan wrote to the head of t...
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Poor show by Ramdin

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The suspension and fine of West Indies wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin sent a firm, tough reminder that the International Cricket Council still values fair play and honesty in the gentlemen’s game, despite the ugly incidents of spotfixing and matchfixing in recent years. O...
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Of trade, aid and silence

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THE RECENT virtual back-to-back visits by the USA’s Vice-President Joseph Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping have served to fuel optimism for increased trade and economic investment among Caribbean Community states. Current realities in our trade relations w...
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Govt taps $833m from Chinese

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad and Tobago is already beginning to put some $833 million of the US$3 billion in concessional loans from China to use. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced yesterday this country will be able to immediately access $833 million of these funds to accelerate...
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Countries slow to ratify Cariforum/EU EPA

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Political will is needed for all the countries in Cariforum and the European Community to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), British High Commissioner to T&T Arthur Snell said yesterday. He admitted that implementation of the agreement has “not been...
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The ongoing trade deficit problem for T&T and Jamaica

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE RECURRING challenges of a widening trade deficit for Jamaica with Trinidad and Tobago featured again in the Jamaican senate last Friday but climaxed with an understanding to pursue a non-confrontational strategy for reversal of this lingering negative trend. For all their...
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Region mourns passing of leading agri-science expert

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -ACADEMICS in the region are today mourning the passing of Prof Emeritus Nazeer A Ahmad, who was one of the last associates of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (AICTA). Ahmad was Prof Emeritus of the Department of Food Production in the Faculty of Food and Agricu...
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Beyond The T&T Smokescreen

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Whatever it is A.J. Nicholson drank last Friday, we hope Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will insist that he recommend it to Industry Minister Anthony Hylton. The foreign minister, speaking in the Senate, properly dressed down critics of Trinidad and Tobago's trade pract...
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