FORMER president of the TT Contractors Association Mikey Joseph laments that while eight Chinese immigrants sit in a holding cell at the Immigration Detention Centre, having been brought here to do menial construction work, there were honest, decent, hard-working Trinidadians, especially young Africans, being left on the breadline.
UNITED Shareholders Limited (USL) chairman Kirk Carpenter yesterday alleged that Government dropped the ball regarding an extension of the CL Financial (CLF) shareholders agreement. In a release, Carpenter claimed statements made by former minister in the ministry of finance Mariano Brown were correct. Carpenter claimed the shareholders nevers received the extension of the agreement to sign on August 31, 2016 as indicated in a statement from the Finance Ministry on July 28.
CHIEF of the Santa Rosa First Peoples Community Ricardo Bharath Hernandez said yesterday the community was not asking Government to solely fund their celebrations for the one-off holiday on October 13.
The Queens Park Savannah hosted the annual Youth Day celebrations of the Emancipation Support Committee of Trinidad and Tobago (ESCTT) on Monday.
Emancipation Day is not about dressing up for one day, but living freedom in ones heart. However it is difficult to find that inner freedom when one does not know the history of it.
MISSING Republic Bank clerk Nikisha Winter-Roach has returned home.