Consumers paying only $50 more on grocery bill
Consumers will have to pay only $50 more on their monthly grocery bills as a result of the removal of items from the VAT zero-rated list and the reduction of the 15 per cent tax to 12.5 per...
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Health Minister on Kamla’s salt talk: ‘If you don't cook with salt you eh go...
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh yesterday took a jab at former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar who, at a press conference earlier this week, had complained that salt ought not to be placed on...
View ArticleFamilies left homeless by fires receive help
With two separate fires leaving three families homeless on Wednesday, much needed help came in the form of government food cards and clothing allowances.A total of 24 people, including nine children,...
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Murder on Mucurapo Street
Chaos broke out in San Fernando yesterday as a man who was well known to police was gunned down along the busy Mucurapo Street.Shoppers and pedestrians said they ran for cover when they heard the...
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Higher business costs mean VAT will bite deeper
Consumers can expect to pay much more than $50 extra for their groceries because higher business costs will lead to higher prices when VAT is applied. Finance Minister Colm Imbert, in presenting the...
View Article12.5 per cent tax across the board most realistic option—Imbert
Finance Minister Colm Imbert says the UK’s staggered VAT rate cannot be applied to T&T because Britain’s income tax rate is generally higher.He was responding to concerns that VAT could be made...
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Hinds tours bad roads in Talparo
Works and Transport Minister Fitzgerald Hinds says by eliminating poor quality work by state agencies such as WASA and private citizens alike, the country can save a lot of infrastructural problems...
View ArticlePM stresses: No job losses from Tobago ministry
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley confirms that he gave assurances of no job losses to the public servants of the former Ministry of Tobago Development. This was contained in a release yesterday from the...
View ArticleAutomotive dealers slam ‘heartless Paula’
Angered by the revised foreign used car policy announced by Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon on Friday, president of the T&T Automotive Dealers Association (TTADA), Visham Babwah, says she shed...
View ArticleTwo men injured in shootout following Sando murder
Hours after Michael Patterson was gunned down in San Fernando on Friday, one of his relatives and the man who allegedly killed him were severely injured in a shootout yesterday.Both men were warded in...
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Food importers brace for tough year
Food importers say 2016 will be tough as they face double jeopardy with the reintroduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) on certain food items and limited foreign exchange as they struggle to keep prices...
View ArticleGovt gets failing grade from opposition senator
Temporary Opposition Senator Wayne Munro has given the PNM a failing grade for how it is running the country.He was speaking on the Finance Bill 2016 in Parliament on Friday.Munro said: “Since the PNM...
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NCC launches Market Strip
A sweet love song for T&T sung by Nayol Manswell and the infectious dance energy of the North West Laventille Cultural Movement backed by four stirring drummers were the highlights of Friday’s...
View ArticleJapanese businessman tells local used car dealers:
A Japanese used car supplier says if the T&T Government continues with its ban on the importation of five and six-year-old vehicles, the country’s foreign used industry will be finished.In an...
View ArticleSando mayor on new arrangements for taxi drivers: I’m no law breaker
San Fernando mayor Kazim Hosein is denying allegations by the head of the business association in the city that he is breaking the law in relation to the allowances he made for taxi drivers to occupy...
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Cops charged with misbehaviour back in court today: Chief Magistrate to rule...
Today, precedence may be set for all legal gun owners who may be charged with any of a number of offences including sexual assault as Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar rules whether or not six...
View ArticleFormer PM: Government squeezing every penny from poor people
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley appear to be obsessed with sticking their noses in people’s kitchens, a place where they clearly have no business.This was the...
View ArticleCoast guardsman: Expand My Part programme to stop crime
With many cadets in the My Part Programme currently before the courts for rape, larceny and assault, manager of the National Energy Skills Centre’s (NESC) My Part programme, Rudolph Mannie, says...
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MSJ: Tax businesses racking up more forex higher
Businesses which consume a lot of foreign currency should be taxed higher while those who generate it should be rewarded with tax breaks.This was the suggestion proposed by the Movement for Social...
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Glue Food and Red Wine
My name is Sherlon Campbell and I am a winemaker from Mayaro. The word for “winemaker” is really “vintner.” I play for Guaya United in the Super League, the best supported team in Trinidad & Tobago...
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