Bush and alligators all around - Prakash Saith

Civil engineer Prakash Saith remembers all too well the long days he and other professionals like him spent to develop Point Lisas as an industrial estate...

Is anybody benefiting?

On Monday, a columnist in another newspaper wrote that Trinidad had become a “hell on earth,” that there could be no pretence that the country was anything but a “disaster area” and that if Trinidad was not a failed state, he did not know what was...

The power of leverage

Many people wish they could pay cash for everything they wanted. But, ironically, those that can are the ones that borrow, use some form of credit or somehow get someone else to pay for what they want...

Roberts still waiting on Cry report

Social Development Minister Anthony Roberts says he is yet to receive the report on allegations of sexual abuse at the Cry Foundation...

Cells to sell Joe Pires hopes to cash in on Digicel’s entry

About nine weeks ago, on the night of March 24, businessman Joe Pires finally got the telephone call he had been waiting for since the end of November last year...

Innovation in the roti business

Meet Nazir Ali. He owns and co-manages a Princes Town operation capable of producing between 8,000 and 10,000 rotis a day...

Port improves efficiency

Improved operations at the Port of Port-of-Spain have led an association of large shipowners to lower a charge levied on the port for congestion...

Govt looks to diversify

Several new energy complexes on the horizon

The question of how T&T can maximise its use of natural gas and add value to this treasured hydrocarbon resource has been often asked...

Largest locally designed platform launched

The Oilbird platform, the largest, heaviest and most complete structure to be designed and fabricated locally, was launched at La Brea last Friday...

Laqtel to partner with Palestinian company

Local start-up Laqtel, the would be mobile provider, intends to sell equity interest to Paltel, a Palestinian based telecommunications company...

A cut above the rest

“It was never a dream, but I always enjoyed watching my cousin trim clients,” said Ecliffe Reynold St Rose of Ideal MetroSexual Image, located in Divine Image Centre, Deigo Martin...

Talisman comes up dry

Talisman Energy has failed to discover either oil or gas in its first well despite spending over US$20 million drilling...

Judge wrong to deny Sharma’s costs

Mr Sharma, who is the MP for Fyzabad, applied to the Commission under the Freedom of Information Act for a list of those persons who were required to file declarations under the Integrity in Public Life Act, 2000, who had not done so and who had been given an extension of time by the Commission. The Commission refused to grant the request...