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Government housing for Tucker Valley

The Housing Development Corporation (HDC) plans to construct this year a $200 million housing project in Tucker Valley, Chaguaramas...

BG View from the Editor

Down south: moving to the left?

Last week Thursday I took the advice of several people who have participated in the industrialisation debate and headed down to the southwestern tip of Trinidad (Chatham in particular) in the company of John Jones and Vijai Lall of the National Energy Corporation...

Mixed Assets

No gas contracts

There is increasing worry that natural gas is not going to be available for several projects which have already received the green light from the Government...

Feedback

PSA a loss to sport

The loss to sport of PSA grounds at Long Circular in St James (BG Jan 5, 2006) is a significant loss...

Tell us more, Alcoa

It is with great amusement that I read the letter from Alcoa’s representative, Randy Overbey. Randy suggests that there were several erroneous statements published that will mislead the T&T public. Randy felt that he must clarify these statements because our local population cannot critically read published information...

News

Answering the call - New TSTT chairman comes out of ‘retirement’

When the call came, Sam Martin answered. Chamber president Christian Mouttet had been sacked as TSTT chairman on the eve of market liberalisation and the position at the majority state-owned company was vacant...

BHP’s Angostura averages 42,000 bpd in first year

BHP Billiton’s Angostura oil field produced an average of 42,000 barrels of oil per day during its first full year of production...

Government facing opposition to tariff removal

Government is facing opposition to its plan to remove or reduce tariffs on foodstuffs from within T&T and from Caricom neighbours...

T&T flour at centre of OECS row

When Caricom leaders meet in Port-of-Spain on February 9 and 10 they will, among other things, be asked by Antigua and Barbuda to lift some restrictions on non-OECS flour imports, particularly from T&T...

Barbados fund to be cross-listed in T&T

Competition for locally-generated investment funds is about to get even fiercer as Fortress Caribbean Property Fund Ltd, the Barbados-based real estate investment fund, is scheduled to be cross-listed on the T&T Stock Exchange tomorrow...

Petrotrin to look for refinery partner

Petrotrin, the state-owned oil company, will look into the possibility of a joint venture partner for the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery this year, said Petrotrin’s executive chairman, Malcolm Jones in an interview...

Features

Storey by storey

TTCA head tackles building woes

Against the backdrop of cranes and bustling workmen at the site of the government campus on Richmond Street in downtown Port-of-Spain, Mikey Joseph bristled...

Polo takes up real estate challenge

Laura Polo wants to be among the top real estate agencies in T&T. As principal of Laura Polo Homes T&T, Polo uses international standards as her benchmarks...

MovieTowne expansion behind schedule

Movietowne’s expansion is now about five months behind schedule. The $15 million addition to the present structure at Invaders Bay was supposed to have opened in July to August of 2005 but has now been pushed back to April this year...

Using your home equity to create wealth

Among the opportunities provided by what has been termed “the real estate boom” has been increased wealth in home equity. Equity is simply the difference between the market value of a property, and the outstanding debt (if any)...

Legal

Closure of Tax Court and...

Erosion of judicial independence

Last week, those of us who practice before the Tax Appeal Board were told by the chairman that there would be no hearings of the court until further notice as the court had been told to vacate the Hall of Justice...

Commentary and Analysis

Tax breaks should help market

A tax break. The words that every tax-paying citizen wants to hear. When the 2005-2006 national budget was read in Parliament in September 2005, one can only imagine how elated taxpayers were, upon hearing about the proposed tax “reliefs” as outlined in the budget...

No pain, no gain

Carnival 2K6 is just about rounding into high gear and many across the country are flocking to the gyms and crowding the savannahs in order to get fit for the big event...

Kudos for Costa Rica agreement

The Government of T&T has a critical role to play in the future trade development of the Caricom region...

Survival of the swiftest

Competition used to be between giants like Mobil and Shell or Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Then it morphed into David and Goliath battles like Netscape and Microsoft...

Global warming and the local energy sector

Almost one year ago, in February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol finally came into force, despite the refusal of the world’s largest economy and largest producer of greenhouse gases to sign the agreement...

Free trade over a wall

The Mexican president, Vincente Fox, has described it as a “wall of shame,” foreign ministers of ten South and Central American countries, including Belize, denounced it on January 9 and US businessmen have criticised it...

 

 

 

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