508,000 Unit Trust customers
Total assets grow to $21.5 billion. UTC grew despite adverse economic conditions.
The Unit Trust success story continues with a decent performance in the first six moths of the year.
Despite the gloom of economic contraction, net income was $65 million and total assets grew to $21.5 billion and this caused Chairman Amoy Chang Fong [...]
UNC committee caught in the rain
The disciplinary committee was sheltering from the rain while Warner and Gypsy waited on them. The committee will have another try next week.
The hilarious United National Congress(UNC) soap opera continues.
The Basdeo Panday faction has been trying to corral the Movement For Change faction led by Jack Warner, Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj and Winston “Gypsy” Peters [...]
WI go for consolation win
WI try to save face after a bad beating. They continue to make history for the wrong reasons.
Is it glorious coup de grace for the world’s worst cricket team, Bangladesh, today?
They take on what is seen as an inept third string West Indies side in the third One Day International (ODI) at Warner [...]
UDECOTT threaten legal action against UFF enquiry
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Calder Hart claims bias against him by Commission. Rowley claims that threat of legal action a threat to obstruct Commission’s work.
Maverick Diego Martin MP Dr Keith Rowley is once more after UDECOTT chairman Calder Hart’s head.
Rowley called for Hart to be removed as UDECOTT chairman after learning of plans by the [...]
BBC boost TT’s Emancipation celebrations
There is expected to be a colourful parade through the streets of Port of Spain on Saturday. Emancipation has caught the eye of the BBC.
The Emancipation celebrations got a boost this week on the BBC’s Fast Track programme.
The programme stated that this was an event for people to witness because there was drumming, [...]
Navas to probe Rambachan
New Chaguanas Mayor wants to know how former Mayor Rambachan handled finances between 2003- 2009.The UNC power struggle gets nasty.
The power struggle in the United National Congress (UNC) escalated yesterday with renegade Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner threatening court action and new Chaguanas Mayor Natasha Navas seeking an audit of spending in the borough during [...]
Manning’s mysterious death threats
These death threats come every couple of years. Will there be one next year?
In the heat of the historic 1956 general election campaign, the People’s National Movement announced that it discovered plans to kidnap Dr Eric Williams’ five-year-old daughter, Erica.
There was police protection but nothing ever happened but Sparrow and other calypsonians sang about [...]
Slow growth at FNCU Venture Capital
FNCU Venture Capital has only $13,000 in the bank. Is NEDCO hindering the growth of the venture capital movement?
There has been a lot of talk about venture capital in this country.
More talk. Less do as there are only a couple of companies in existence.
The FNCU Venture Capital Company which came into existence earlier in the [...]
Is the press unfair to Mr Manning?
Dr Williams felt that the local press was unworthy and derided its practitioners as ignoramuses. However, he was always willing to talk to foreign journalists.
On the night of April 22, 1960, before a large cheering Woodford Square crowd, Dr Eric Williams burnt a copy of the Trinidad Guardian, dramatising his long war against that newspaper [...]
Someone must knock sense in hard-headed WICB
The WICB is bent on sending third rate cricketers to South Africa. Perhaps, the ICC, organisers of the Champions Trophy tournament or Digicel should have a quiet word with these madmen.
There was the old saying that the English would prefer to lose a battle ship than to lose a Test match. In the [...]